ISBN:
1433184559
,
9781433184550
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 208 Seiten
,
23 cm, 390 g
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Saito, Rika The language of feminine duty
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Saito, Rika The language of feminine duty
DDC:
305.420952
Keywords:
Women's rights History 20th century
;
Women Language
;
Language policy History 20th century
;
Language and sex
;
Sexism Language
;
Japan
;
Frau
;
Sprache
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Diskurs
;
Frauenbild
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Geschichte 1880-1920
Abstract:
Prologue: Theorizing Women's Speech and Covert Language Policy -- Modernizing Variegated Japanese Speech -- Systematizing Women's Active Agency in Nation Building -- Conceptualizing Women Through Instructive Texts -- Resisting the Gendered Style of Women's Writing -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
"This book examines "women's speech" as a policy of constructs expressed in official and unofficial discourse from the 1880s to the 1920s in Japan. It analyzes specific language policies that were incorporated through governmental gender policy to perpetuate "women's speech," asymmetrical gendered speech styles and concepts in the Japanese language. It also seeks to develop crosscultural approaches to language and gender theories initiated in the United States and Europe by proposing new concepts of language policy. This work contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, language, and policy by reconsidering the relationship between the Japanese "national language" and "women's speech.""--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
