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The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society - An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs (Hardcover)
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The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society - An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs (Hardcover)
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
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Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese
group dynamics. How one comports, depends on one's status and
position vis-a-vis others. To-date, no study shows what constitutes
this hierarchy, where and when individuals growing up in Japan
first come into contact with it, as well as how they learn to
function in it. This book fills in the lacunae. Considering jouge
kankei as a social institution and adopting a discourse analytic
approach, this volume examines the ways in which institutional
jouge kankei as an enduring feature of Japanese social life are
created and reproduced. The monograph analyses how seniority-based
relations are enacted, legitimised, transmitted, and reified by
social actors through language use and paralinguistic discursive
practices, such as the use of space, objects, signs, and symbols.
It also looks at how established rules could be challenged. The
empirical data on which findings are based are gathered through 10
months of ethnographic fieldwork from 2015 to 2018 in Japanese
schools, with certain types of data (school club etiquette books
and uniforms) being presented and analysed for the first time. This
volume also shows continuity and change of jouge kankei from school
to work.
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