Japanese language, gender, and ideology
Subtitle: cultural models and real people
By: edited by Shigeko Okamoto, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
Contributors: Okamoto, Shigeko; Smith, Janet S. Shibamoto
Series: Studies in language and gender
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Japanese language -- Social aspects; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Cultural ideologies in Japanese language and gender studies : a theoretical review / Sumiyuki Yukawa and Masami Saito; title: Ideology in linguistic practice and analysis : gender and politeness in Japanese revisited / Shigeko Okamoto; title: Gender, language, and modernity : toward an effective history of "Japanese women's language" / Miyako Inoue; title: "Japanese female speech" and language policy in the World War II era / Rumi Washi; title: Shifting speakers : negotiating reference in relation to sexuality and gender / Wim Lunsing and Claire Maree; title: Language and gender in the (hetero)romance : "reading" the ideal hero/ine through lovers' dialogue in Japanese romance fiction / Janet S. Shibamoto Smith; title: "Let's dress a little girlishly!" or "Conquer short pants!" Constructing gendered communities in fashion magazines for young people / Momoko Nakamura; title: You are doing burikko! Censoring/scrutinizing artificers of cute femininity in Japanese / Laura Miller; title: Women and words : the status of sexist language in Japan as seen through contemporary dictionary definitions and media discourse / Orie Endo, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, translator; title: Farm women's professional discourse in Ibaraki / Yukako Sunaoshi; title: Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo / Hideko Abe; title: Prosody and gender in workplace interaction : exploring constraints and resources in the use of Japanese / Yumiko Ohara; title: Alternative femininity : personae of middle-aged mothers / Yoshiko Matsumoto; title: Japanese junior high school girls' and boys' first-person pronoun use and their social world / Ayumi Miyazaki; title: Japanese men's linguistic stereotypes and realities : conversations from the Kansai and Kanto regions / Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan