27.3264, Books: The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Okamoto, Shibamoto-Smith

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:32:33
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Okamoto, Shibamoto-Smith

Title: The Social Life of the Japanese Language 
Subtitle: Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/asian-language-and-linguistics/social-life-japanese-language-cultural-discourse-and-situated-practice?format=HB 

Author: Shigeko Okamoto
Author: Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107072268 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107072268 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99

Abstract:

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.

Introduction: toward a dynamic model of Japanese language and social meaning

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
1.2 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
2.2 Meanings of standard and regional Japanese in practice: negotiating norms

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
essence
3.2 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
4.2 Honorifics in practice: negotiating norms

Part III. Japanese Language and Gender:
5. Gendered Japanese: normative linguistic femininity and masculinity
5.1 Dominant narratives of gendered Japanese: a historical perspective
5.2 Media representations of gendered speech in contemporary Japan
6. Gendered Japanese: diversity in attitudes and practice
6.1 Diversity in attitude toward gendered speech
6.2 Meanings of gendered speech in practice: negotiating norms

Reflections: looking backward, looking forward.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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