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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Inoue, Miyako, 1962-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Vicarious language: gender and linguistic modernity in Japan [by Inoue, M.]

Related Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes; [volume] 11

Subjects:

Women — Japan — Language

Japanese language — Sex differences

Women — Language

Women

Japanese language

Japan

General Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index.

Physical Description:

xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

PL698.W65 I56 2006

ISBNs:

0520245849 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780520245846 (cloth, alk. paper)
0520245857 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780520245853 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005010545

OCLC Numbers:

59148441