The Social Life of the Japanese Language : Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Okamoto, Shigeko, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12355867 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on orthographic and naming conventions; Introduction; The relationship between norms and practice; Sociolinguistic categorization; Linguistic norm construction; The role of language ideologies; Indexicality as a fluid process; Data and methods of analyses; Chapter summaries; Part I The notion of Nihongo; 1 Standard Japanese and its others: Building the national language; 1.1 Standard Japanese: A building block in the making of modern Japan; 1.1.1 1870s-1945.
- 1.1.2 The post-war period
- present1.2 Representations of Standard and regional Japanese in the media; 2 Standard and regional Japanese: Diversity in attitudes and practice; 2.1 Diversity in attitudes toward Standard and regional Japanese; 2.1.1 Survey results; 2.1.2 Blogs; 2.2 Meanings of Standard and regional Japanese in practice: Negotiating norms; 2.2.1 Face-to-face conversations; 2.2.2 Emails; 2.2.3 Talk shows; Part II Japanese honorifics and Japanese "politeness"; 3 Keigo: From official policy to popular pedagogy.
- 3.1 Institutional policy on honorific form and use: Constructing the Japanese essence3.2 Keigo for the public: Authoritative accounts by linguists; 3.3 Honorifics: Popular pedagogy; 4 Keigo: Diversity in attitudes and practice; 4.1 Diversity in attitudes toward honorifics; 4.1.1 Survey data; 4.1.2 Blogs; 4.2 Honorifics in practice: Negotiating norms; 4.2.1 The use and interpretation of addressee honorifics; 4.2.2 The use and interpretation of referent honorifics in relation to the use of addressee honorifics.
- 4.2.3 The relation of honorifics and Standard Japanese to that of plain forms and regional dialectsPart III Japanese language and gender; 5 Gendered Japanese: Normative linguistic femininity and masculinity; 5.1 Dominant narratives of gendered Japanese: A historical perspective; 5.1.1 Construction of women's speech norms; 5.1.2 Construction of men's speech norms; 5.2 Media representations of gendered speech in contemporary Japan; 5.2.1 Media representations of normative linguistic femininity; 5.2.2 Media representations of normative linguistic masculinity.
- 6 Gendered Japanese: Diversity in attitudes and practice6.1 Diversity in attitudes toward gendered speech; 6.1.1 Linguistic femininity: Metapragmatic commentary from blogs; 6.1.2 Linguistic masculinity: Metapragmatic commentary from blogs; 6.1.3 Thoughts on linguistic femininity and masculinity: A preliminary survey; 6.2 Meanings of gendered speech in practice: Negotiating norms; 6.2.1 Face-to-face private conversations; 6.2.2 Talk on television; Reflections: Looking backward, looking forward; References; Index.
