Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan (Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes)

by Miyako Inoue (Author)

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  2006

  $46.87

  Provides a 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, this title considers the history and social effects of this language form.