Language Play & Subcultural Language in Postwar Japan

General

Birnie-Smith, Jess, and Wesley C. Robertson. "Superdiversity and Translocal Brutality in Asian Extreme Metal Lyrics." Language & Communication 81 (2021): 48–63.

Dahlberg-Dodd, Hannah E. "O-Jōsama Kotoba and a Stylistics of Same-Sex Desire in Japanese Yuri Narratives." Mechademia 13, no. 1 (2020): 6–23.

Fanasca, Marta. "'Impact Taisetsu Da!': The Use of Emoji and Kaomoji in Dansō Escort Blogs Between Gender Expression and Emotional Labor." In Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age, edited by Elena Giannoulis and Lukas R. A. Wilde, 85–103. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Gagné, Issac. "Urban Princesses: Performance and 'Women's Language' in Japan's Gothic/Lolita Subculture." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2008): 130–150.

Gottlieb, Nanette. "Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles." Japanese Studies 30, no. 3 (2010): 393–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2010.518600.

Miller, Laura. "Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14, no. 2 (2004): 225–247.

———. "Subversive Script and Novel Graphs in Japanese Girls' Culture." Language & Communication 31, no. 1 (2011): 16–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2010.11.003.

———. "You Are Doing Burikko!: Censoring/Scrutinizing Artificers of Cute Femininity in Japanese." In Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, edited by Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, 148–165. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Nakamura, Kumiko. "Joshi Kōsei No Tegamibun: Sono Eigo Shikō to Hyoukijō No Tokuchou." Gengo Seikatsu 380 (1983): 88–96.

Nakamura, Momoko. Shinkeigo "Maji Yabaissu." Hakutakusha, 2020.

Nishimura, Yukiko. "Establishing a Community of Practice on the Internet: Linguistic Behavior in Online Japanese Communication." Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations 29, no. 1 (2003): 337–348.

Norimatsu, Tomoko, and Kayoko Horio. "Wakamono Zasshi Ni Okeru Katakana Hyōki to Sono Kanyōka Wo Megutte." Kitakyūshū Shiritsu Daigaku Bungakubu Kiyō 69 (2005): 35–44.

Oberwinkler, Michaela. "Emoticons in Social Media: The Case of Japanese Facebook Users." In Emoticons, Kaomoji, and Emoji: The Transformation of Communication in the Digital Age, edited by Elena Giannoulis and Lukas R. A. Wilde, 104–123. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Okamoto, Shigeko. "Wakai Josei No 'Otoko Kotoba': Kotobazukai to Aidentiti." In Jendā de Manabu Gengogaku, edited by Momoko Nakamura, 129–143. Sekaishishōsha, 2010.

Robertson, Wesley C. "'Ojisan Gokko Shiyo! [Let's Pretend to Be Old Men!]': Contested Graphic Ideologies in Japanese Online Language Play." Japanese Studies 42, no. 1 (2022): 23–42.

———. Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese. Routledge, 2020.

Satake, Hideo. "Wakamono No Bunshō to Katakana Kōka." Nihongogaku 8, no. 1 (1989): 60–67.

Sugiyama, Satomi. "Kawaii Meiru and Maroyaka Neko: Mobile Emoji for Relationship Maintenance and Aesthetic Expressions among Japanese Teens." First Monday 20, no 10 (2015). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5826/4997.

Yamane, Kazuma. Hentai Shōjō Moji No Kenkyū. Tokyo: Kōzasha, 1986. 

Notes

The foundations of this reading list were generously provided by Wes Robertson.

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