Situated Meaning

by Bachnik, Jane M.; Quinn, Charles J., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780691069654
• ISBN10: 0691069654
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Note on Romanization
Key to Abbreviations and Orthographic Conventions
Contributors
Introduction: uchi/soto: Challenging Our Conceptualizations of Self, Social Order, and Language	p. 3
The Terms uchi and soto as Windows on a World	p. 38
A Movable Self: The Linguistic Indexing of uchi and soto	p. 73
Indexing Hierarchy through Japanese Gender Relations	p. 88
Uchi/soto: Choices in Directive Speech Acts in Japanese	p. 113
Indexing Self and Society in Japanese Family Organization	p. 143
Uchi no kaisha: Company as Family?	p. 169
The Battle to Belong: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Fulfillment in the Japanese Family Enterprise	p. 192
When uchi and soto Fell Silent in the Night: Shifting Boundaries in Shiga Naoya's "The Razor"	p. 209
Uchi/Soto: Authority and Intimacy, Hierarchy and Solidarity in Japan	p. 223
Uchi/Soto: Tip of a Semiotic Iceberg? 'Inside' and 'Outside' Knowledge in the Grammar of Japanese	p. 247
Index	p. 295
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