Vicarious Language Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan

Name: Vicarious Language Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan
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ISBN: 9780520245853

ISBN-10: 0520245857

ISBN-13: 9780520245853

Edition: 2006

Authors: Miyako Inoue

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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 question the claim that "women's language" is a Japanese cultural tradition of ancient origin and…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


Acknowledgments


Note on Japanese Names and the Romanization of Japanese Language


Introduction: Women's Language and Capitalist Modernity in Japan



Language, Gender, and National Modernity: The Genealogy of Japanese Women's Language, 1880s-1930s



An Echo of National Modernity: Overhearing "Schoolgirl Speech"



Linguistic Modernity and the Emergence of Women's Language



From Schoolgirl Speech to Women's Language: Consuming Indexicality in Women's Magazines, 1890-1930



The Nation's Temporality and the Death of Women's Language



Capitalist Modernity, the Responsibilized Speaking Body, and the Public Mourning of the Death of Women's Language



Re-Citing Women's Language in Late Modern Japan


Introduction



"Just Stay in the Middle": The Story of a Woman Manager



Defamiliarizing Japanese Women's Language: Strategies and Tactics of Female Office Workers


Afterword: This Vicarious "Japanese Women's Language"


Bibliography


Index