The Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society : : An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs / / Zi Wang.

Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group dynamics. How one comports, depends on one’s status and position vis-à-vis others. To-date, no study shows what constitutes this hierarchy, where and when individuals growing up in Japan first come into contact with it, as wel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 116
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 213 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Contextualising jouge kankei
  • 2 Studying the discursive construction of jouge kankei in secondary school clubs
  • 3 Ideologies, power, text, and discourse: Bukatsudou as sites of learning and socialisation in language and discourse
  • 4 Address terms, honorific word choices, and the construction of hierarchy
  • 5 The linguistic constitution of jouge kankei: Ideology in micro-level discourse and epistemic orders
  • 6 Space, signs, symbols, and objects used in conjunction with discourse
  • 7 Jouge kankei: Discursive construction, characteristics, implications and future outlook
  • Appendix 1: Junior High School Curriculum Guidelines, Published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  • Appendix 2: Guidelines for codes of conduct in extra-curricular club
  • Appendix 3: On the Romanisation of Japanese
  • Appendix 4: Glossary of Japanese Terms
  • Appendix 5: List of Standard Abbreviations used according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules
  • References
  • Index