| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Impact: studies in language, culture and society, 1385-7908 ; volume 49 |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; 49.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Portable language and the jouissance of identities -- The structure of this book -- Chapter 1. Metroethnicity and cool: A theory of lifestyle identities -- The lightness of being ethnic: The creative 'acquirement' of multiple meanings -- Cool: A swerving trajectory -- Post-ethnic languages -- The texture of language: Slang du jour -- Empires of cool: Bilingualism and language learning -- Ethnic reconstruction: Hybridities -- Italian Ainu -- The problems of ethnic romance -- Metroethnicity: Decentering ethnicity -- The principle of Cool -- Chapter 2. Mocknolect: Language and identity imitation -- Mocknolect -- "Je n'ai plus osé ouvrir la bouche" (I no longer dare open my mouth) -- Japanese mocknolect -- Mocknolect in the media -- Yellow English and Asian English -- Japanese mocknolect in war and peace -- Japanese mocknolect in film: Karate Kid -- The delicate aesthetic and the psycho absurd -- The polyvalency of Japanese mocknolect -- Chapter 3. The linguistic identity of place: Where things are, where we are -- A sense of place -- Linguistic signatures -- Place-names and continuity -- Place names and the person: Our interior world -- Utamakura: Poetic place-names -- Signs of identity: Where things are, where we are -- Demonyms: Identifying people of a place -- Metonymy. No more Hiroshimas!! -- Chapter 4. Married names: Continuous identities and social conflict -- The semiotics of continuous identity -- Power, hierarchy and expediency -- "This must be some import from Chicago" -- Rationale for name retention -- Diglossic naming -- Fūfu Bessei vs Fūfu Dōsei ('separate' vs 'same' married names) -- History of the Fūfu Bessei movement -- Rationale for name change |
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Structural transformations -- Chapter 5. "Hirosima! Hiroshima! We all fall down!!": The speech fellowship of children -- The speech fellowship of children -- Warabe Uta, children's song and language games -- Baby talk -- Dialect and place in children's language life -- Politics and parody -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6. Multilingual Japan: Word borrowers of the Chuo line -- Borrowing -- Going the other way: Japanese loanwords in Chinese -- Sea hermits and language -- The borrowers -- Why borrow? -- A survey of language awareness of borrowing -- Chapter 7. Discriminatory language, taboo and language hygiene -- The Meiji period and standardization -- Discriminatory talk -- Racist tropes and pronouns of discrimination -- The dangerous game of language and social groups -- Chapter 8. Ainu and the Celtic languages: Comparing vitality and endangerment -- Metroethnicity and cool Celtic -- Multilingualism in Japan and the British Isles -- The beginnings of revival: Ainu and the Celtic languages -- A sociological theory of 'Reversing Language Shift' (RLS) -- From rocking chair languages to intergenerational oracy -- a. The Ainu language situation: Stages 8-6 -- born The Celtic Languages Situation -- Stages 8-6 -- c. The Ainu Languages Situation: Stages 5-1 -- d. The Cornish and Manx Gaelic Rennaissance Stages 5-1 -- Politics and struggle: It ain't easy -- Expectations and over-estimations -- The Ainu language situation: Celtic and other European connections -- Chapter 9. The Sanka and Sanshōkotoba: Lost argot of mountain itinerants -- Argot and anti-language -- Sanka: An extinct language community -- Ethnonym: From India to Oita -- Origins -- Lifestyle -- Sanshokotoba: The Sanka language -- Sanshokotoba (Secret language) -- Secret language: Sanshokotoba and shirube -- Speech taboo and prohibitions -- Postscript on 'Orphan Languages' of 20th Century Asia |
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Chapter 10. Cool rules: Language loyalty, translation and ironic detachment -- Hyphenated people, Levi jeans -- Ethnicity in quotation marks -- Minorities. Bring on the icons -- Race, translation and cool -- Cool rules -- Cool dialects -- The history of Cool -- Cool and being -- Ironic detachment and empowerment -- Freedom vs exile? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11. A sociophonetics of the Japanese /r/: Mocknolect and variation -- The Japanese /r/ sound -- Pronunciation of /r/ in the world's languages -- The sociophonetics of the Japanese /r/ -- Racialised phonetics and Asian identity -- Varieties of the Japanese /r/ -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Language difficulty and difficult languages -- The easy and the difficult -- Five meanings of difficulty -- Difficulty as cultural capital -- Art, music and difficulty -- Languages near, languages remote -- The remote and the difficult -- Language and distance -- A survey of Japanese attitudes towards language difficulty -- FDLs: 'Fiercely Difficulty Languages': The view from schools -- Absolute difficulty -- a. Reading -- born Sound and spelling -- c. Pragmatics -- d. Pronunciation -- Conclusion -- A note on simplified language: A solution for the difficult? -- Note 1 -- Chapter 13. Slang and modernity: Innovation and controversy about language -- Slang and language innovation -- Japanese slang in history -- Tracking slang -- Mechanisms of youth slang -- The leader of the pack: 'Language boss' -- The /r/ deletion controversy -- Chapter 14. Names and nicknames: Personal recognition, solidarity and social management -- Names: The confluence of past and present -- The Eastern name order -- Personal names -- Family names -- Utamakura: Poetic place-names -- Nicknaming -- The structure of nicknames -- The origin of nicknaming -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Japan
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Japanese language -- Social aspects
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Japanese language -- Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Japan
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021001647 |
| ISBN |
9027260028 |
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9789027260024 |
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