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Absolutely fantastic read, 10/10, would recommend to anyone interested in sociolinguistics, Japan and gender.

I’m skimming some sections because I’m under a time pressure, which is a shame because this is an enjoyable scholarship. While I don’t understand the minutiae of the cited sociolinguistic theory, her writing is elegant and clear.

I’m skimming some sections because I’m under a time pressure, which is a shame because this is an enjoyable scholarship. While I don’t understand the minutiae of the cited sociolinguistic theory, her writing is elegant and clear.

Warning ! If you don't want to have your anime and porn stereotypes destroyed....don't read this book !

"... daughters of low-ranking samurai families. Intellectuals and educators also developed this origin narrative by locating the original speakers of these utterance-ending forms in pleasure quarters and teahouses."

"... Ozaki Koyo ... warned in 1888 that a certain speech style with "strange" (iyounaru) utterance-endings, such as teyo, noyo, and dawa, now occured among elementary schoolgirls between close friends and seemed to be spreading among highschool girls and even adult women. He insisted that sensible ladies would never use there utterance-endings because the endings were originally part of the vulgar speech used by..."

"An anonymous author deplored the fact that he occasionally heard ladies of the middle class and above mixing (chanpon) the vulgarity and crudeness of teyo-dawa speech with the esoteric words of kango" jitsu ni renbin da wa