TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maher,John C.
TI  - Metroethnicity, naming and mocknolect: new horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics 
T2  - Impact: studies in language, culture and society,
SN  - 9027260028
AV  - P40.45.J3 M34 2021
U1  - 306.442/956 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Japan
KW  - Japanese language
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Sociolinguistique
KW  - Japon
KW  - Japonais (Langue)
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese"--
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ER  -