Japanese Women's Speech through Life-Transitions (1989-2000)

An Analysis of Youth Language Features

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ID2286313
AutoresLidia Tanaka (0000-0003-4400-2705, La Trobe University, autor correspondente), Kaori Okano (0000-0002-8349-8240, La Trobe University, autor correspondente), Ikuko Nakane (0000-0002-6523-4030, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), C Maree (0000-0002-0671-9652, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), Shimako Iwasaki (0000-0002-6593-7203, Monash University, autor correspondente), Chie Takagi (0000-0002-4622-2034, The University of Osaka, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume31
Fascículo1
Páginas119-143
Data de publicação2021-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12302
OpenAlexW3164205593
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas52

This study analyses four women's speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast ethnographic information helps us to understand their persona style (Eckert 2008), and to have an insight into their linguistic capital (Bourdieu and Boltanski 1978, Woolard 2008

Art · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Habitus · Humanities · Indexicality · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Persona · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology