Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Inoue, Miyako, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2006]
Series:	Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11.
Subjects:	Women > Japan > Language. Japanese language > Sex differences.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

An echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech"
Linguistic modernity and the emergence of women's language
From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890-1930
Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language
"Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager
Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.