Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.
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.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/cttt42sv
Vicarious language.
9780520245846
Japanese language-- Sex differences.
Women-- Japan-- Language.
Femmes-- Japon-- Langage.
Japonais (Langue)-- Différences entre sexes.
Feminismus
Japanese language-- Sex differences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.