Debra J Occhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 237501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra J Occhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra J |
| FAMILY NAME | Occhi |
| SIGNATURE | OCCHI D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miyazaki International College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folk Taxonomies
Folk taxonomy is a methodology aiming to construct nested categories of entities by exploring relationships between them with local consultants within the cultural group of interest. Defining kinship and other social relationships and categorizing local fauna via ethnobotany are two areas within which folk taxonomy research has been especially fruitful. The latter has continued as a strong area of research interest both within and outside academi…
Love and Language in Massan
This article analyzes courtship between secondary characters Toshio and Hana in the televised NHK drama Massan. When viewed through the lens of sociolinguistics, their romance is fraught with linguistic and pragmatic problems. Toshio and Hana speak different non-prestigious dialects, and also spend much of their interaction arguing. However, they eventually marry. Their path to marriage and the contents of their speech are also interesting from t…
Kumamon
Contemporary Japan is famous for using mascot characters to represent brands, organizations, government agencies, and localities. This chapter discusses how Kumamon, the mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture in western Kyushu, has become a national favorite. Mascot characters compete with an astounding variety of mass-marketed fanshii guzzu depicting licensed characters produced by such corporations as Sanrio and San-X and those that appear in manga and …
Kyaraben (character bento)
The recent boom in cute characters (kyara) has permeated Japanese popular aesthetics to the extent that character-shaped foods have displaced the former emphasis on recreating natural objects in bento (packed lunches) created for preschoolers. Prior to this development, Anne Allison described bento as an ‘ideological state apparatus’. Under this rubric, learning to make a proper bento was a part of training women to be proper mothers of preschool…
Women in the Language and Society of Japan
Journal Article Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias Get access Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias, by Naoko Takemaru. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010, 240 pp., $42.00 (softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-4003-0) Debra J. OCCHI Debra J. OCCHI Miyazaki International College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 14,…
Finding Mr Right
Language standardization lies at the heart of Japanese modernity. And numerous aspects of language development intended to fit the modern Japanese state intersect to regiment the linguistic imaginary regarding women's speech. Focus on Yamanote Tokyo-based joseigo (‘women's language’), Standard Japanese and certain urban Kansai dialects in popular text and televisual representations of romantic heroines in geographically and linguistically periphe…
Language and Education in Japan
Tiny buds whispering
Japan's poetic practice not only expresses verbal beauty and deep historicity, but also maintains the power to express cultural ideals and goals of the state through the use of nature–human metaphors. The political use of nature imagery as a template for human motivation and cultivation was described during the Heian period (CE 794–1185) and continues to the present day. This paper focuses on contemporary examples of the use of flowers to represe…
The green leaves of love
How is 'authentic' linguistic femininity in Japan manifested in popular texts? We analyze the dialogue of female characters in Wakaba, a 2005 Japanese drama set in two very different parts of 'regional' Japan - Miyazaki and Kobe. Through this analysis, we examine two contradictory discourses circulated through popular media. The first is that linguistic femininity is based in Standard Japanese - a surprisingly persistent ideology despite a curren…
Anthropology Through Active Learning in a Second Language
Signs in Society
The green leaves of love
How is 'authentic' linguistic femininity in Japan manifested in popular texts? We analyze the dialogue of female characters in Wakaba, a 2005 Japanese drama set in two very different parts of 'regional' Japan - Miyazaki and Kobe. Through this analysis, we examine two contradictory discourses circulated through popular media. The first is that linguistic femininity is based in Standard Japanese - a surprisingly persistent ideology despite a curren…
Finding Mr Right
Language standardization lies at the heart of Japanese modernity. And numerous aspects of language development intended to fit the modern Japanese state intersect to regiment the linguistic imaginary regarding women's speech. Focus on Yamanote Tokyo-based joseigo (‘women's language’), Standard Japanese and certain urban Kansai dialects in popular text and televisual representations of romantic heroines in geographically and linguistically periphe…
Signs in Society
Signs in Society
Anthropology Through Active Learning in a Second Language
Tiny buds whispering
Japan's poetic practice not only expresses verbal beauty and deep historicity, but also maintains the power to express cultural ideals and goals of the state through the use of nature–human metaphors. The political use of nature imagery as a template for human motivation and cultivation was described during the Heian period (CE 794–1185) and continues to the present day. This paper focuses on contemporary examples of the use of flowers to represe…
The green leaves of love
How is 'authentic' linguistic femininity in Japan manifested in popular texts? We analyze the dialogue of female characters in Wakaba, a 2005 Japanese drama set in two very different parts of 'regional' Japan - Miyazaki and Kobe. Through this analysis, we examine two contradictory discourses circulated through popular media. The first is that linguistic femininity is based in Standard Japanese - a surprisingly persistent ideology despite a curren…
Finding Mr Right
Language standardization lies at the heart of Japanese modernity. And numerous aspects of language development intended to fit the modern Japanese state intersect to regiment the linguistic imaginary regarding women's speech. Focus on Yamanote Tokyo-based joseigo (‘women's language’), Standard Japanese and certain urban Kansai dialects in popular text and televisual representations of romantic heroines in geographically and linguistically periphe…
Language and Education in Japan
Women in the Language and Society of Japan
Journal Article Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias Get access Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias, by Naoko Takemaru. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010, 240 pp., $42.00 (softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-4003-0) Debra J. OCCHI Debra J. OCCHI Miyazaki International College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 14,…
Kyaraben (character bento)
The recent boom in cute characters (kyara) has permeated Japanese popular aesthetics to the extent that character-shaped foods have displaced the former emphasis on recreating natural objects in bento (packed lunches) created for preschoolers. Prior to this development, Anne Allison described bento as an ‘ideological state apparatus’. Under this rubric, learning to make a proper bento was a part of training women to be proper mothers of preschool…
Kumamon
Contemporary Japan is famous for using mascot characters to represent brands, organizations, government agencies, and localities. This chapter discusses how Kumamon, the mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture in western Kyushu, has become a national favorite. Mascot characters compete with an astounding variety of mass-marketed fanshii guzzu depicting licensed characters produced by such corporations as Sanrio and San-X and those that appear in manga and …
Folk Taxonomies
Folk taxonomy is a methodology aiming to construct nested categories of entities by exploring relationships between them with local consultants within the cultural group of interest. Defining kinship and other social relationships and categorizing local fauna via ethnobotany are two areas within which folk taxonomy research has been especially fruitful. The latter has continued as a strong area of research interest both within and outside academi…
Love and Language in Massan
This article analyzes courtship between secondary characters Toshio and Hana in the televised NHK drama Massan. When viewed through the lens of sociolinguistics, their romance is fraught with linguistic and pragmatic problems. Toshio and Hana speak different non-prestigious dialects, and also spend much of their interaction arguing. However, they eventually marry. Their path to marriage and the contents of their speech are also interesting from t…
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies in Language (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)