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This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources
are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and
to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of
workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to
include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity,
along with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking
power and politeness. This uniquely researched edited collection
will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese
sociolinguistics, as well as Japanese language instructors and
adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a major contribution
to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of workplace discourse in
the globalized context of the twenty-first century.
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used
differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How
do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as
politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in
public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in
language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese
sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective,
focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its
relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This
socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices
which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how
varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered
language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape
in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of
previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising
young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. The
contributors to this edited volume argue that traditional views of
language in Japan are cultural constructs created by policy makers
and linguists, and that Japanese society in general, and language
use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous than
previously understood. This volume brings together studies that
substantially advance our understanding of the relationship between
Japanese language and gender, with particular focus on examining
local linguistic practices in relation to dominant ideologies.
Topics studies include gender and politeness, the history of
language policy, language and Japanese romance novels and fashion
magazines, bar talk, dictionary definitions, and the use of
first-person pronouns. The volume will substantially advance the
agenda of this field, and will be of interest to sociolinguists,
anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of Japan and Japanese.
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