Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology Cultural Models and Real People

by Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.

• ISBN13: 9780195166170
• ISBN10: 0195166175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previouslyunpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars inJapanese language and gender studies. The contributors to this edited volumeargue that traditional views of language in Japan are cultural constructscreated by policy makers and linguists, and that Japanese society in general,and language use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous thanpreviously understood. This volume brings together studies that substantiallyadvance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese language andgender, with particular focus on examining local linguistic practices inrelation to dominant ideologies. Topics studies include gender and politeness,the history of language policy, language and Japanese romance novels and fashionmagazines, bar talk, dictionary definitions, and the use of first-personpronouns. The volume will substantially advance the agenda of this field, andwill be of interest to sociolinguists, anthropologists, sociologists, andscholars of Japan and Japanese.

Author Biography

Shigeko Okamoto is Professor Linguistics and Japanese in the Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno.

Janet S. Shibamoto Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Note on Naming	xi
Contributors	xiii
Introduction	3	(20)
Shigeko Okamoto
Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
PART I HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Cultural Ideologies in Japanese Language and Gender Studies: A Theoretical Review	23	(15)
Sumiyuki Yukawa
Masami Saito
Ideology in Linguistic Practice and Analysis: Gender and Politeness in Japanese Revisited	38	(19)
Shigeko Okamoto
Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of ``Japanese Women's Language''	57	(19)
Miyako Inoue
``Japanese Female Speech'' and Language Policy in the World War II Era	76	(16)
Rumi Washi
Shifting Speakers: Negotiating Reference in Relation to Sexuality and Gender	92	(21)
Wim Lunsing
Claire Maree
PART II LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGIES AND CULTURAL MODELS
Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: ``Reading'' the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction	113	(18)
Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
``Let's Dress a Little Girlishly!'' or ``Conquer Short Pants!'' Constructing Gendered Communities in Fashion Magazines for Young People	131	(17)
Momoko Nakamura
You Are Doing Burikko! Censoring/Scrutinizing Artificers of Cute Femininity in Japanese	148	(18)
Laura Miller
Women and Words: The Status of Sexist Language in Japan as Seen through Contemporary Dictionary Definitions and Media Discourse	166	(21)
Orie Endo
Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
PART III REAL LANGUAGE, REAL PEOPLE
Farm Women's Professional Discourse in Ibaraki	187	(18)
Yukako Sunaoshi
Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo	205	(17)
Hideko Abe
Prosody and Gender in Workplace Interaction: Exploring Constraints and Resources in the Use of Japanese	222	(18)
Yumiko Ohara
Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-aged Mothers	240	(16)
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Japanese Junior High School Girls' and Boys' First-Person Pronoun Use and Their Social World	256	(19)
Ayumi Miyazaki
Japanese Men's Linguistic Stereotypes and Realities: Conversations from the Kansai and Kanto Regions	275	(16)
Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan
Index	291