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Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520939066 0520939069 1282771965 9781282771963 9786612771965 6612771968 |