1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787273203321

Autore

Nakamura Momoko <1955->

Titolo

Gender, language and ideology : a genealogy of Japanese women's language / / Momoko Nakamura, Kanto Gakuin University

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

90-272-6929-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, , 1569-9463 ; ; volume 58

Disciplina

306.44/29560082

Soggetti

Japanese language - Sex differences

Japanese language - Social aspects

Women - Japan - Languages - History

Japanese language - Sex differences - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Japanese version of this book, Onna kotoba wa tsukurareru [Constructing Women's Language], came out in 2007 and received the 27th Yamakawa Kikue Award, which recognizes outstanding research in women's studies, and I was invited to speak about Japanese women's language by universities, women's organizations, teachers' unions and government agencies all over Japan."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gender, Language and Ideology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; List of figures and tables ; List of abbreviations in transcriptions ; Notes on Japanese names, the Romanization of Japanese language and translation of Japanese into English ; Introduction ; Japanese women's language ; Women's language as the norm ; Women's language as knowledge ; Women's language as value ; Women's language in previous studies ; Historical-discourse approach ; Women's language as an ideological construct ; Discourse as data ; Historical perspective

Organization of the book Part 1. Women's speech as the object of regulation ; Chapter 1. The norms of feminine speech ; Women's conduct books ; The Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185-1573) ; The Edo period (1603-1868) ; Association with femininity ; Conclusion ;



Chapter 2. Normalization of court-women's speech ; Court-women's speech ; From the symbol of upper class to the norm of women ; Speech of the upper class ; Men's use of court-women's speech ; Prohibition on men's use ; The normalization of court-women's speech ; Conclusion ; Part 2. Gender and national language

Linguistic gender differences in the unification dispute The creation of a men's national language ; Conclusion ; Chapter 4. Modernization of the norms of feminine speech ; Reproduction of the premodern norms of feminine speech ; Logic of the modern conduct books ; Logic of the school moral textbooks ; Conclusion ; Chapter 5. Creating indexicality ; Changing attire of female students ; Construction of schoolgirl speech ; Gender-differentiation: Denial of schoolboy speech ; Selection: choosing "Teyo dawa speech" and western words ; Derogation: Frivolous students

Sexualization: From "teyo dawa speech" to schoolgirl speech Dilemma of sexuality: Schoolgirl speech revised ; Conclusion ; Chapter 6. Masculinizing the national language ; Grammar textbooks and school readers as metalinguistic practices ; Gender and linguistic features of Japanese national language ; Excluding features by associating them with women ; Schoolboy features into the Japanese national language ; Conclusion ; Part 3. Women's language into national language ; Chapter 7. Women's language as imperial tradition ; Japanese language in the Asian colonies

Women's language in the war period Women's language as Japanese imperial tradition ; Women's language as a symbol of Japanese superiority ; Female citizens as protectors of the national language ; Conclusion ; Chapter 8. Gendering of the national language under national mobilization ; Women's roles in national mobilization ; Gender in academic discourse ; Locating women's language at the margin of standard Japanese ; Gendering the national language ; Teaching gender differences in national language readers ; Conclusion ; Part 4. Essentializing women's language

Chapter 9. Women's language as reflection of femininity

Sommario/riassunto

The book examines women's language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women's language, that, to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language, and to account for why and how they are related as they are, we must consider history, discourse and ideology. The book analyzes multiple discourse examples spanning the premodern period of the thirteenth century to the immediate post-WWII years, mostly translated into English for the first time, locating them in political, soc



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781765703321

Autore

McNamara Patrick <1956->

Titolo

The cognitive neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease / / Patrick McNamara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29745-0

1-283-25866-8

9786613258663

0-262-29836-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

616.8/33

Soggetti

Parkinson's disease

Neuropsychiatry

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On Parkinson's disease -- Dopamine -- The nature and functions of the agentic self -- The neurology of the agentic self -- Impairment of the agentic self in Parkinson's disease : cognitive -- Deficits in Parkinson's disease -- The agentic self and personality changes in Parkinson's disease -- Evolutionary perspectives on the agentic self : its neural -- Networks and Parkinson's disease -- Speech and language deficits of Parkinson's disease -- Sleep disorders of Parkinson's disease -- Mood disorders and apathy in Parkinson's disease -- Psychosis and dementia in Parkinson's disease -- Impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease -- Rehabilitation of the agentic self.

Sommario/riassunto

Patrick McNamara examines the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease in detail and offers a cognitive theory that accounts for both their neurology and their phenomenology.