Vicarious language
Subtitle: gender and linguistic modernity in Japan
By: Miyako Inoue.
Series: Asia--local studies/global themes ;; 11
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Women -- Japan -- Language.; Japanese language -- Sex differences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech"; title: Gembun itchi linguistic modernity and the emergence of "women's language."; title: From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890/1930; title: Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the loss of women's language; title: "Just stay in the middle": a story of a woman manager; title: Defamiliarizing women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.