Japanese language is often referred to as a prime example of a language with “true” sex
differences. Women's language and men's language within the Japanese are frequently …

English In the past thirty years, major contributions from Japanese language and gender
studies have provided necessary insights from the perspective of a non-European language …

Japanese women s language is a concept encountered daily in Japanese society and,
perhaps most interestingly, in Japanese language studies. Students are informed that there …

Japanese Language, Gender and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles
by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender …

Japanese language marks male/female differences at different levels of grammar:
morphology (eg, bikago or the beautifying prefix o-attached to certain typesof nouns …

It is well known that Japanese norms of behavior have traditionally been highly gendered.
Compared with men, women are expected to play subordinate social roles (Lebra 1984; …

This dissertation takes an historical perspective on so-called" Japanese women's
language"(joseigo/onna kotoba) which has been widely categorized as the stereotypical …

Regarding Japanese as a language with distinct gender differences, earlier studies focused
on the differences between joseigo (women's language) and danseigo (men's language) …

This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the sociolinguistic studies on Japanese.
Japanese, like other languages, has developed a highly diverse linguistic system that is …