In:Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics
John C. Maher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 49] 2021
► pp. 49–62
Chapter 4Married names
Continuous identities and social conflict
Published online: 27 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.49.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.49.c4
Article outline
- 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
- Structural transformations
