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Paperback Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Volume 11 Book

ISBN: 0520245857

ISBN13: 9780520245853

Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Volume 11

(Part of the Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Series)

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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...

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