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Author Okamoto, Shigeko

Title Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology : Cultural Models and Real People
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (630 pages)
Series Studies in language and gender
Studies in language and gender.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; PART I. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; 1 Cultural Ideologies in Japanese Language and Gender Studies: A Theoretical Review; 2 Ideology in Linguistic Practice and Analysis: Gender and Politeness in Japanese Revisited; 3 Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women's Language -- 4 Japanese Female Speech and Language Policy in the World War II Era; 5 Shifting Speakers: Negotiating Reference in Relation to Sexuality and Gender; PART II. LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGIES AND CULTURAL MODELS
6 Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: ""Reading"" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction7 ""Let's Dress a Little Girlishly!"" or ""Conquer Short Pants!"" Constructing Gendered Communities in Fashion Magazines for Young Peop1e; 8 You Are Doing Burikko! Censoring/Scrutinizing Artificers of Cute Femininity in Japanese; 9 Women and Words: The Status of Sexist Language in Japan as Seen through Contemporary Dictionary Definitions and Media Discourse; PART III. REAL LANGUAGE, REAL PEOPLE; 10 Farm Women's Professional Discourse in Ibaraki
11 Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo12 Prosody and Gender in Workplace Interaction: Exploring Constraints and Resources in the Use of Japanese; 13 Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-aged Mothers; 14 Japanese Junior High School Girls' and Boys' First-Person Pronoun Use and Their Social World; 15 Japanese Men's Linguistic Stereotypes and Realities: Conversations from the Kansai and Kanto Regions; Index
Summary ""Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology"" is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. The contributors to this edited volume argue that traditional views of language in Japan are cultural constructs created by policy makers and linguists, and that Japanese society in general, and language use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous than previously understood. This volume brings together studies that substantially advance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese langu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Japanese language -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
Japanese language -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Língua japonesa.
Sociolingüística.
Form Electronic book
Author Shibamoto Smith, Janet S
Okamoto, Shigeko
ISBN 9781433700750
1433700751