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Situated meaning : inside and outside in Japanese self, society, and language / edited by Jane M. Bachnik, Charles J. Quinn, Jr.
LIBRA DS821 .S59 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Civilization--Philosophy.
- Japan.
- Civilization.
- Philosophy.
- Japanese language--Social aspects.
- Japanese language.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1994.
- 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."
- Contents:
- Ch. 1 Introduction: uchi/soto: Challenging Our Conceptualizations of Self, Social Order, and Language 3
- Ch. 2 The Terms uchi and soto as Windows on a World 38
- Ch. 3 A Movable Self: The Linguistic Indexing of uchi and soto 73
- Ch. 4 Indexing Hierarchy through Japanese Gender Relations 88
- Ch. 5 Uchi/soto: Choices in Directive Speech Acts in Japanese 113
- Ch. 6 Indexing Self and Society in Japanese Family Organization 143
- Ch. 7 Uchi no kaisha: Company as Family? 169
- Ch. 8 The Battle to Belong: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Fulfillment in the Japanese Family Enterprise 192
- Ch. 9 When uchi and soto Fell Silent in the Night: Shifting Boundaries in Shiga Naoya's "The Razor" 209
- Ch. 10 Uchi/Soto: Authority and Intimacy, Hierarchy and Solidarity in Japan 223
- Ch. 11 Uchi/Soto: Tip of a Semiotic Iceberg? 'Inside' and 'Outside' Knowledge in the Grammar of Japanese 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691069654 :
- 0691015384
- OCLC:
- 28339632
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