Japanese language, gender, and ideology : cultural models and real people /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Okamoto, Shigeko, Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Studies in language and gender.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural ideologies in Japanese language and gender studies : a theoretical review / Sumiyuki Yukawa and Masami Saito
  • Ideology in linguistic practice and analysis : gender and politeness in Japanese revisited / Shigeko Okamoto
  • Gender, language, and modernity : toward an effective history of "Japanese women's language" / Miyako Inoue
  • "Japanese female speech" and language policy in the World War II era / Rumi Washi
  • Shifting speakers : negotiating reference in relation to sexuality and gender / Wim Lunsing and Claire Maree
  • Language and gender in the (hetero)romance : "reading" the ideal hero/ine through lovers' dialogue in Japanese romance fiction / Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
  • "Let's dress a little girlishly!" or "Conquer short pants!" Constructing gendered communities in fashion magazines for young people / Momoko Nakamura
  • You are doing burikko! Censoring/scrutinizing artificers of cute femininity in Japanese / Laura Miller
  • 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
  • Farm women's professional discourse in Ibaraki / Yukako Sunaoshi
  • Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo / Hideko Abe
  • Prosody and gender in workplace interaction : exploring constraints and resources in the use of Japanese / Yumiko Ohara
  • Alternative femininity : personae of middle-aged mothers / Yoshiko Matsumoto
  • Japanese junior high school girls' and boys' first-person pronoun use and their social world / Ayumi Miyazaki
  • Japanese men's linguistic stereotypes and realities : conversations from the Kansai and Kanto regions / Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan.