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Why can t a Japanese girl say Stop it! to the molester who is touching her body? Previous studies indicate that linguistic sex differences reflect the societal hierarchy of the speakers status. Nonetheless, in Japanese language, women cannot use some phrases regardless of their social positions. Those forms are used exclusively by men. On the contrary, the examination of conversation data reveals that sex differences occur with striking infrequency. In order to elucidate this complication, I postulate two types of rules, prescriptive and proscriptive, that operate upon speakers to maintain…mehr

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Why can t a Japanese girl say Stop it! to the
molester who is
touching her body?
Previous studies indicate that linguistic sex
differences reflect the
societal hierarchy of the speakers status.
Nonetheless, in Japanese
language, women cannot use some phrases regardless of
their social
positions. Those forms are used exclusively by men.
On the contrary, the examination of conversation data
reveals that
sex differences occur with striking infrequency. In
order to elucidate
this complication, I postulate two types of rules,
prescriptive and
proscriptive, that operate upon speakers to maintain
mutual
exclusiveness between two sexes. Proscriptive rules
prohibit
transgressions of the boundaries between the sexes.
Since preferred
images of a gender change over time, prescriptive
rules are fluid. On
the other hand, the violation of proscriptive rules
brings serious
penalty to speakers.
This book also explores the historical process in
which female
students speech, which was accused as coarse
speech at first,
became the model speech for Japanese women.
Autorenporträt
Rinko Shibuya, Ph.D. grew in Japan and studied Japanese
linguistics at University of
California at Los Angeles. She taught at colleges both in United
States and Japan.
Besides academic studies, she published several fantasy novels
with her own art
works.