The social life of the Japanese language : cultural discourses and situated practice
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The social life of the Japanese language : cultural discourses and situated practice
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-329) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: toward a dynamic model of Japanese language and social meaning
- Part I. The Notion of Nihongo
- 1. Standard Japanese and its others: building the national language
- 1.1 Standard Japanese: a building block in the making of modern Japan
- 1.2 Representations of standard and regional Japanese in the media
- 2. Standard and regional Japanese: diversity in attitudes and practice
- 2.1 Diversity in attitudes toward standard and regional Japanese
- 2.2 Meanings of standard and regional Japanese in practice: negotiating norms
- Part II. Japanese Honorifics and Japanese 'Politeness': 3. Keigo: from official policy to popular pedagogy
- 3.1 Institutional policy on honorific form and use: constructing the Japanese essence
- 3.2 Keigo for the public: authoritative accounts by linguists
- 3.3 Honorifics: popular pedagogy
- 4. Keigo: diversity in attitudes and practice
- 4.1 Diversity in attitudes toward honorifics
- 4.2 Honorifics in practice: negotiating norms
- Part III. Japanese Language and Gender: 5. Gendered Japanese: normative linguistic femininity and masculinity
- 5.1 Dominant narratives of gendered Japanese: a historical perspective
- 5.2 Media representations of gendered speech in contemporary Japan
- 6. Gendered Japanese: diversity in attitudes and practice
- 6.1 Diversity in attitude toward gendered speech
- 6.2 Meanings of gendered speech in practice: negotiating norms
- Reflections: looking backward, looking forward.
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