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The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese SocietiesGender and Language Research and Perceptions in Japanese and Russian Societies

The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies: Gender and Language Research... [The complex relationship between gender and language has been studied from a diversity of perspectives, which have explored both the historical control of women’s language by men and the evolving interactions between genders that shape contemporary language use. Japanese and Russian contexts, however, have never been compared and contrasted. Analysis of these two geographically neighboring, yet culturally and linguistically different, societies is fascinating because both of these countries have been undergoing major transformations in their perception of gender and their expectations of men and women’s speech. In both contemporary Japan and Russia along with an indisputable gender inequality, a deliberately media-crafted image of ‘femininity’ extends not only to appearance but to women’s language. An ideology of ‘women’s language’ in Japan and Russia though different in substance is similarly associated with essentialist notions that stereotypical lexical choices reflect immutable properties that are innate to the essence of women.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese SocietiesGender and Language Research and Perceptions in Japanese and Russian Societies

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
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978-3-030-41432-0
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10.1007/978-3-030-41433-7_1
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[The complex relationship between gender and language has been studied from a diversity of perspectives, which have explored both the historical control of women’s language by men and the evolving interactions between genders that shape contemporary language use. Japanese and Russian contexts, however, have never been compared and contrasted. Analysis of these two geographically neighboring, yet culturally and linguistically different, societies is fascinating because both of these countries have been undergoing major transformations in their perception of gender and their expectations of men and women’s speech. In both contemporary Japan and Russia along with an indisputable gender inequality, a deliberately media-crafted image of ‘femininity’ extends not only to appearance but to women’s language. An ideology of ‘women’s language’ in Japan and Russia though different in substance is similarly associated with essentialist notions that stereotypical lexical choices reflect immutable properties that are innate to the essence of women.]

Published: May 6, 2020

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