ISBN:
9780520939066
,
0520939069
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 323 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Asia--local studies 11
Series Statement:
Asia--local studies/global themes 11
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Inoue, Miyako, 1962- Vicarious language
DDC:
306.440820952
Keywords:
Women Language
;
Japan
;
Japanese language Sex differences
;
Femmes Langage
;
Japon
;
Japonais (Langue) Différences entre sexes
;
Japan
;
Women Language
;
Japanese language Sex differences
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
LITERARY CRITICISM ; Semiotics & Theory
;
Japanese language ; Sex differences
;
Women ; Language
;
Feminismus
;
Linguistik
;
Japan
;
Japanisch
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako Inoue considers the history and social effects of this language form. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a contemporary Tokyo corporation to study the everyday linguistic experience of white-collar females office workers and on historical research from the late nineteenth century to 1930, she calls into
Note:
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i]. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index. - Description based on print version record
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