Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Volume 11

by Inoue Miyako and Miyako Inoue

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245857
• ISBN13: 9780520245853
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"