Japanese language, gender, and ideology : cultural models and real people
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Japanese language, gender, and ideology : cultural models and real people
（Studies in language and gender）
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies.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.
Table of Contents
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Contributors
Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith: Introduction
Part I: Historical and Theoretical Foundations
1: Sumiyuki Yukawa and Masami Saito: Cultural Ideologies in Japanese Linguistics and Gender Studies: A Theoretical Studies
2: Shigeko Okamoto: Ideology in Linguistic Practice and Analysis: Gender and Politeness in Japanese Revisited
3: Miyako Inoue: Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of "Japanese Women's Language"
4: Rumi Washi: "Japanese Female Speech" and Language Policy in the World War II Era
5: Wim Lunsing and Claire Maree: Shifting Speakers: Negotiating Reference in Relation to Sexuality and Gender
Part II: Linguistic Ideologies and Cultural Models
6: Janet S. Shibamoto Smith: Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction
7: Momoko Nakamura: "Let's Dress a Little Girlishly!" or "Conquer Short Pants!" Constructing Gendered Communities in Fashion Magazines for Young People
8: Laura Miller: You Are Doing Burikko! Censoring/Scrutinizing Artificers of Cute Femininity in Japanese
9: Orie Endo, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Translator: Women and Words: The Status of Sexist Language in Japan as Seen through Contemporary Dictionary Definitions and Media Discourse
Part III: Real Language, Real People
10: Yukako Sunaoshi: Farm Women's Professional Discourse in Ibaraki
11: Hideko Abe: Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo
12: Yumiko Ohara: Prosody and Gender in Workplace Interaction: Exploring Constraints and Resources in the Use of Japanese
13: Yoshiko Matsumoto: Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-aged Mothers
14: Ayumi Miyazaki: Japanese Junior High School Girls' and Boys' First-Person Pronoun Use and Their Social World
15: Cindi Sturtz-Streetharam: Japanese Men's Linguistic Stereotypes and Realities: Conversations from the Kansai and Kanto Regions
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