Theorizing the Constructive‐ideological Approach to Japanese Women's Language

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This paper demonstrates that the constructive‐ideological approach to women's language proposed by Japanese researchers makes significant theoretical contributions to the field of language and gender studies. The first section shows that post‐structural studies have emphasized the agency of a speaker to perform subversive practice. To account for the ephemeral nature of subversive performances, however, we need to examine women's language as a language ideology consisted of knowledge, norm, and belief about women's speech. The second section compares two major approaches to Japanese women's language; the essentialist‐evolutionary and the constructive‐ideological approaches. The former approach has several problems in claiming that women's language has naturally evolved from women's practices. The latter approach assumes that the ideology of women's language has been historically constructed by discourse rather than through repeated use by women. By separating women's language from speaker's gender, it enables to investigate how women's language simultaneously provides resources to and imposes restrictions on linguistics practices.
関東学院大学経済学部教養学会の論文
2011-01-00