Gender, language and ideology : a genealogy of Japanese women's language

Gender, language and ideology : a genealogy of Japanese women's language / Momoko Nakamura, Kanto Gakuin University.

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...

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Main Author: Nakamura, Momoko, 1955- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture.
Subjects:
Japanese language > Sex differences.
Japanese language > Social aspects.
Women > Japan > Languages > History.
Japanese language > Sex differences > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Japanese language > Sex differences
Japanese language > Social aspects
Japan
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Onna kotoba wa tsukurareru.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Women's speech as the object of regulation : the premodern period. The norms of feminine speech ; Normalization of court-women's speech
  • Gender and national language : nation-state building in the early modern period. Construction of a national language for men ; Modernization of the norms of feminine speech ; Creating indexicality : schoolgirl speech ; Masculinizing the national language
  • Women's language into national language : the impact of war. Women's language as imperial tradition : legitimating colonization ; Gendering of the national language under national mobilization
  • Essentializing women's language : the postwar U.S. occupation. Women's language as reflection of femininity ; A gendered Japanese national language : symbol of patriarchy
  • Conclusion : going beyond the gendered linguistic ideologies.

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