Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan / Miyako Inoue.
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TextSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006Description: xvii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0520245849 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520245857 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- Japan -- Language | Japanese language -- Sex differencesDDC classification: 306.44/082/0952 LOC classification: PL698.W65 | I56 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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CUZ Harare Campus Open Shelf | PL 608.W65156 INO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | CU6436 | Available | BK0004118 |
"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.
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