Situated Meaning : Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language /

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Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination--an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan--and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range...

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Other Authors: Quinn, Charles J. (Editor), Bachnik, Jane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Japanese language > Social aspects.
Civilization > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Japan.
Japan > Civilization > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Uchi/soto : challenging our conceptualizations of self, social order, and language / Jane M. Bachnik
  • The terms uchi and soto as windows on a world / Charles J. Quinn, Jr.
  • A movable self : the linguistic indexing of uchi and soto / Patricia J. Wetzel
  • Indexing hierarchy through Japanese gender relations / Nancy R. Rosenberger
  • Uchi/soto : choices in directive speech acts in Japanese / Robert J. Sukle
  • Indexing self and society in Japanese family organization / Jane M. Bachnik
  • Uchi no kaisha : company as family? / Dorinne K. Kondo
  • The battle to belong : self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment in the Japanese family enterprise / Matthews M. Hamabata
  • When uchi and soto fell silent in the night : shifting boundaries in Shiga Naoya's "The razor" / Michael S. Molasky
  • Uchi/soto : authority and intimacy, hierarchy and solidarity in Japan / Jane M. Bachnik
  • Uchi/soto : tip of a semiotic iceberg? : 'inside' and 'outside' knowledge in the grammar of Japanese / Charles J. Quinn, Jr.

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