Women in the Language and Society of Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the Language and Society of Japan write by Naoko Takemaru. This book was released on 2010-04-19. Women in the Language and Society of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.
Aspects of Japanese Women's Language
Aspects of Japanese Women's Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of Japanese Women's Language write by 井出祥子. This book was released on 1990. Aspects of Japanese Women's Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Language and Society in Japan
Language and Society in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Society in Japan write by Nanette Gottlieb. This book was released on 2005-02-03. Language and Society in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language and Society in Japan deals with issues important to an understanding of language in Japan today, among them multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. It is organised around the theme of language and identity, in particular how language is used to construct national, international and personal identities. Contrary to popular stereotypes, Japanese is far from the only language used in Japan, and does not function in a vacuum, but comes with its own particular cultural implications. Language has played an important role in Japan's cultural and foreign policies, and language issues are intimately connected both with technological advance and with minority group experiences. Nanette Gottlieb is a leading authority in this field. Her book builds on and develops her previous work, and promises to be essential reading for students, scholars, and all those wishing to understand the role played by language in Japanese society.
Vicarious Language
Vicarious Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vicarious Language write by Miyako Inoue. This book was released on 2006-04-05. Vicarious Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 question the claim that "women's language" is a Japanese cultural tradition of ancient origin and offers a critical geneaology showing the extent to which this language form is, in fact, a cultural construct linked with Japan's national and capitalist modernity. Her theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded, interdisciplinary work brilliantly illuminates the relationship between culture and language, the nature of power and subject formation in modernity, and how the complex nexus of gender, language, and political economy are experienced in everyday life.
Japanese Women's Language
Japanese Women's Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women's Language write by Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith. This book was released on 1985. Japanese Women's Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
