31.2632, Books: The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society: Wang

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:36:04
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society: Wang

 


Title: The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society 
Subtitle: An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs 
Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/3aj3O9x 


Author: Zi Wang

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501518621 Pages: 213 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group
dynamics. How one comports, depends on one’s status and position vis-à-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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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