Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan /
Miyako Inoue.
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
- xvii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11 .
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--P. [i].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and index.
An echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech" -- Linguistic modernity and the emergence of women's language -- From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890-1930 -- Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language -- "Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager -- Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.