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By Miyako Inoue

This hugely unique learn offers a wholly new serious standpoint at the vital significance of rules approximately language within the copy of gender, classification, and race divisions in sleek Japan. concentrating on a phenomenon mostly referred to as "women's language," in glossy jap society, Miyako Inoue considers the background and social results of this language shape. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a modern Tokyo company to review the typical linguistic event of white-collar women place of work employees and on historic examine from the past due 19th century to 1930, she calls into query the declare that "women's language" is a eastern cultural culture of old beginning and gives a severe geneaology exhibiting the level to which this language shape is, actually, a cultural build associated with Japan's nationwide and capitalist modernity. Her theoretically subtle, empirically grounded, interdisciplinary paintings brilliantly illuminates the connection among tradition and language, the character of strength and topic formation in modernity, and the way the complicated nexus of gender, language, and political economic system are skilled in lifestyle.

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The question proper to such an analysis might be formulated in this way: what is this specific existence that emerges from what is said and nowhere else? (1972:28) The critical task of this book is to describe the conditions and the principles within which statements about women’s language are generated, dispersed, and repeated. I will explore these processes in concrete cases, both historically and ethnographically. I ask where, how, and by whom a particular statement is made, under what conditions the statement is possible and makes sense, and what other kinds of statements are excluded or rendered unthinkable in the process of some statements becoming possible.

For a brief definition of metalepsis, see also Spivak (1990:122). ” To recognize multiple modalities of citational practices that constitute the discursive field of women’s language is also to go beyond the limits imposed by the production of knowledge on women’s language; not only by experts, but by ordinary people; not only in the process of production and reception of speech, but also in retrospection when one does not engage in any actual linguistic activity; not only about language or language use, but also about identities, values, and life opportunities, which are indexed by such citational practices.

See also Joseph and Taylor 1990; Kroskrity 2000; Rumsey 1990; and Schieªelin et al. 1998 for other definitions of linguistic ideology or language ideology. Note that the term ideology here does not necessarily refer to a Marxist notion of ideology. ” 18 INTRODUCTION structure of language, the use of language, and beliefs about language— both its structure and its use—are necessarily interconnected and dialectically constitutive of each other. Rather than treating the linguistic and the social as isomorphic and assuming the former simply reflects the latter, the concept of linguistic ideology focuses attention on the mutual mediation between the linguistic and the social as historical entities, which develop and shift in the material world.

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