Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in Japanese

Ide, Sachiko

doi:10.1075/impact.11.13ide

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 11] 2003
► pp. 227–238

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Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in Japanese

Sachiko Ide | Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

Published online: 10 April 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.13ide

1.Introduction

2.The indigenous way of looking at women’s language

3.Women’s languages in women’s worlds

3.1Nyoobo kotoba: The language of court ladies

3.2Yuujogo: The language of the courtesans

4.The impact on present-day women’s language

4.1Establishing women’s language as a group language

4.2Indexing group identity and molding the speaker’s self

4.3Adding valuable image

5.Conclusion

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