On this episode of Ichimon Japan we ask: Is Japanese women’s language an illusion?
Topics Discussed
- About Japanese women’s language
- About gendered language in Japanese
- How context affects people’s speech in Japan
- Directness vs indirectness
- About politeness and “women’s speech” in Japanese
- About steretypical speech styles in Japanese
- About direct and indirect indexicality
- About Japanese first person pronouns
- Constructing your identity via speech
- Third person pronouns in Japanese
- Avoiding third person pronouns in Japanese
- About kare & kanojo
- About sentence-final particles
- The importance of experimenting with language
- The relationship between intonation and sentence-final particles
- Gay male speech
- And much more!
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