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Situated meaning : inside and outside in Japanese self, society, and language
- Title
- Situated meaning : inside and outside in Japanese self, society, and language / edited by Jane M. Bachnik and Charles J. Quinn, Jr.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- xviii, 309 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination -- an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan -- and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and orientations in terms of such relational concepts as uchi ("inside") and soto ("outside"). Evolving from a shared theoretical focus, the essays show that in Japan the directional orientations inside and outside are specifically linked to another set of meanings, denoting "self" and "society." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
- Japanese language > Social aspects
- 18.87 Japanese language and literature
- Civilization > Philosophy
- Japanisch
- Philosophie
- Soziolinguistik
- Zivilisation
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Japans
- Plaats
- Japonais (langue) > Aspect
- Ethnolinguistique > Japon
- Langage et culture > Japon
- Japan > Civilization > Philosophy
- Japan
- Japan
- Japon > Civilisation > Philosophie
- Japanisch
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Uchi/soto : challenging our conceptualizations of self, social order, and language -- The terms uchi and soto as windows on a world -- A movable self : the linguistic indexing of uchi and soto -- Indexing hierarchy through Japanese gender relations -- Uchi/soto : choices in directive speech acts in Japanese -- Indexing self and society in Japanese family organization -- Uchi no kaisha : company as family? -- The battle to belong : self-sacrifice and self-fulfillment in the Japanese family enterprise -- When uchi and soto fell silent in the night : shifting boundaries in Shiga Naoya's "The razor" -- Uchi/soto : authority and intimacy, hierarchy and solidarity in Japan -- Uchi/soto : tip of a semiotic iceberg? : 'inside' and 'outside' knowledge in the grammar of Japanese.
- ISBN
- 0691069654
- 9780691069654
- 0691015384
- 9780691015385
- LCCN
- 93008956
- OCLC
- ocm28339632
- 28339632
- SCSB-14478948
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library