Description: Vicarious Language : Gender And Linguistic Modernity in Japan, Paperback by Inoue, Miyako, ISBN 0520245857, ISBN-13 9780520245853, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK "Inoue has accomplished an extraordinary task, which is without precedent in the East Asian Fields. To my knowledge, no author has ever demonstrated as persuasively as she does that the issues concerning women's Japanese can be explored in such an innovative, engaging way. Vicarious Language brilliantly displays how effectively Foucauldian archaeology can be introduced to the study of gender and language, and undermines any of the previous studies in English of what is erroneously referred to as the unique feature of the Japanese language. This is a superb model of engaged scholarship."--Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse "Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural insight. She explores the texture of Japanese modernity, its national rituals and social practices, by way of a sustained, semiotic analysis of womens' language--the language of self-expression that women use in intimate and institutional contexts, and the language used to define the gendered roles assigned to women within the powers of patriarchy. Her sources range widely from scholarly studies to the 'popular opinion' fostered by newspapers and advertisements; her excellent ethnography investigates the strategies of institutions and organisations, while inquiring into the politics and poetics of everyday life; her analytic method is, at once, conceptually sophisticated and textually intensive. This is a work that allows you to participate in the lifeworld of the Japanese language, at the illuminating moment when gender relations are writ large in the social syntax of national life. This is a book that will make a lasting impression on a range of disciplines."--Homi K. Bhabha, Anne Professor, Harvard University
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Book Title: Vicarious Language : Gender And Linguistic Modernity in Japan
Number of Pages: 340 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Sociology
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 680 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Miyako Inoue
Subject Area: Religious Sociology
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
