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,...
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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 the Women's magazines, 1890-1930
- Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language
- "Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager
- Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.