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

Contents......Page 10
List of Illustrations and Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Note on Japanese Names and the Romanization of Japanese Language......Page 20
Introduction: Women’s Language and Capitalist Modernity in Japan......Page 22
PART ONE: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND NATIONAL MODERNITY: THE GENEALOGY OF JAPANESE WOMEN’S LANGUAGE, 1880S–1930S......Page 56
1. An Echo of National Modernity: Overhearing “Schoolgirl Speech”......Page 58
2. Linguistic Modernity and the Emergence of Women’s Language......Page 96
3. From Schoolgirl Speech to Women’s Language: Consuming Indexicality in Women’s Magazines, 1890–1930......Page 129
PART TWO: THE NATION’S TEMPORALITY AND THE DEATH OF WOMEN’S LANGUAGE......Page 182
4. Capitalist Modernity, the Responsibilized Speaking Body, and the Public Mourning of the Death of Women’s Language......Page 184
PART THREE: RE-CITING WOMEN’S LANGUAGE IN LATE MODERN JAPAN......Page 226
Introduction......Page 228
5. “Just Stay in the Middle”: The Story of a Woman Manager......Page 238
6. Defamiliarizing Japanese Women’s Language: Strategies and Tactics of Female Office Workers......Page 273
Afterword: This Vicarious “Japanese Women’s Language”......Page 299
Bibliography......Page 304
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