Discursive Construction of the Ideology of “Women's Language" : Women's Disciplinary Books/Moral Textbooks and the Unification of Written and Spoken Languages in the Meiji/Taisho Periods(1868-1926)

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The present paper demonstrates that the ideological sex‐differentiation of language use was maintained in the modern times of the Meiji and Taisho periods (1868‐1926). The first chapter analyzes women's disciplinary books and moral textbooks and shows that they preserved and reinforced the category of “women's language use," constructed by the disciplinary books in the Edo period, by re‐defining it within the modern ideologies of state‐as‐family and good‐wife‐wise‐mother. I call the category the modern version of “women's language use." The second chapter analyzes the arguments on the unification of written and spoken languages, from a new perspective of why they did not refer to sex differences in language use. I will show that the notions of “national language," “standard language," and “the unification of written and spoken languages" were, in fact, recognized as men's national language, men's standard language, and the unification of men's written and spoken languages. The construction of the two notions, the modern version of “women's language use" and “men's national language," accomplished “the sex‐differentiation of nationalization" in the aspect of language.
2003-07-30