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What Does Language Remember?: Indexical Inversion and the Naturalized History of Japanese Women
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This article explores the production of naturalized temporality and its ideological effects by focusing on the semiotic process of indexical order. Linguistic practice is linked with the exercise of power not only by constructing intersubjective social reality in an ongoing communicative process, but also, and perhaps more powerfully, by constructing an historical narrative that logically unfolds from the (naturalized) indexical order. Drawing on the case of the historical development of “women's language” in Japanese, the article discusses how an indexical order produces a tacit natural history of Japanese women, which surreptitiously turns gender inequality into nature.
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“Such an imposed indexical tie may create ideological expectations among speakers and hence affect linguistic practice.”
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“Conversely, in the process of indexical inversion described by Miyako Inoue (2004), indexical associations can also be imposed from the top down by cultural authorities such as intellectuals or the media.”
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Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach
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Metadata
- Authors
- Inoue, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Inoue, Miyako
- ORCID
- Inoue, Miyako
- Venue
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-06
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 39-56
- ISSN
- 1055-1360 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1395
- OpenAlex
- W2166365395
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Keywords
- indexicality, women's language, Japanese language, gender inequality, historical narratives, language and power, semiotics, ideology
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