Vicarious Language : Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Inoue, Miyako, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Linguistik
Feminismus
Women > Language.
Japanese language > Sex differences.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Japonais (Langue) > Differences entre sexes.
Femmes > Japon > Langage.
Women > Japan > Language.
Japanisch.
Japan.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (340 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9780520939066

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