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Author | : Naoko Takemaru |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786456108 |
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Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.
Author | : Nanette Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2005-02-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521532846 |
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Language and Society in Japan deals with issues important to an understanding of language in Japan today, among them multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. It is organised around the theme of language and identity, in particular how language is used to construct national, international and personal identities. Contrary to popular stereotypes, Japanese is far from the only language used in Japan, and does not function in a vacuum, but comes with its own particular cultural implications. Language has played an important role in Japan's cultural and foreign policies, and language issues are intimately connected both with technological advance and with minority group experiences. Nanette Gottlieb is a leading authority in this field. Her book builds on and develops her previous work, and promises to be essential reading for students, scholars, and all those wishing to understand the role played by language in Japanese society.
Author | : Miyako Inoue |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520939069 |
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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 offers a critical geneaology showing the extent to which this language form is, in fact, a cultural construct linked with Japan's national and capitalist modernity. Her theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded, interdisciplinary work brilliantly illuminates the relationship between culture and language, the nature of power and subject formation in modernity, and how the complex nexus of gender, language, and political economy are experienced in everyday life.
Author | : Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : 井出祥子 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Japanese language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shigeko Okamoto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-10-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195347293 |
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Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. The contributors to this edited volume argue that traditional views of language in Japan are cultural constructs created by policy makers and linguists, and that Japanese society in general, and language use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous than previously understood. This volume brings together studies that substantially advance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese language and gender, with particular focus on examining local linguistic practices in relation to dominant ideologies. Topics studies include gender and politeness, the history of language policy, language and Japanese romance novels and fashion magazines, bar talk, dictionary definitions, and the use of first-person pronouns. The volume will substantially advance the agenda of this field, and will be of interest to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of Japan and Japanese.
Author | : Momoko Nakamura |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027269297 |
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The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women’s language, that, to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language, and to account for why and how they are related as they are, we must consider history, discourse and ideology. The book analyzes multiple discourse examples spanning the premodern period of the thirteenth century to the immediate post-WWII years, mostly translated into English for the first time, locating them in political, social and academic developments and describing each historical period in a manner easily accessible for those readers not familiar with Japanese history. This is the first book that describes a comprehensive development of Japanese women’s language and will greatly interest students of Japanese language, gender and language studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and history, as well as women’s studies and sexuality studies.
Author | : Orie Endō |
Publisher | : U of M Center for Japanese Studies |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Explores Japan's early literature to trace the development of social mandates for women's use of language
Author | : Kimie Takahashi |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1847698530 |
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Language Learning, Gender and Desire explores Japanese women?s desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates how such desire impacts upon the linguistic, social, and romantic choices made by young women in Japan and overseas. It offers new insights into the multidirectionality of power and desire in the context of second language learning.
Author | : Natalia Konstantinovskaia |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3030414337 |
Download The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book conducts a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of 'women’s language' as it pertains to feminine beauty. It examines the ideological constructs of beauty and femininity in the cultures of Japan and Russia, as embodied through televised beauty ads, and relates them to the real-world language practices of Japanese and Russian women. The author traces the reciprocal connection between women’s real and imagined language in the construction of ideals of beauty and femininity, revealing the complex ways women respond to ideological expectations regarding language use: assimilating, transforming, and subverting ideologized language and the assumptions implicit in it. She also demonstrates ways in which women alter the texture of language by appropriating 'masculine' language for their own purposes, shifting the meaning and correlates of linguistic items and structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language and gender, cultural and media studies, and Russian and Japanese culture.