Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan

Gottlieb, Nanette

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“…Lie ; Sugimoto ). Indeed, there is evidence suggesting that, within Japan, the Indian community is often associated with lower status employment and poverty and the Chinese have long been linked with involvement in criminal gangs (see Pollack ; Gottlieb ; Siddle ).…”

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“The people who are out of ‘right’ English”: Japanese university students' social evaluations of English language diversity and the internationalisation of Japanese higher education

McKenzie

Gilmore

2015

Int J App Linguistics

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Previous research indicates that evaluations of speech forms reflect stereotypes of, and attitudes towards, the perceived group(s) of speakers of the language/ variety under consideration. This study, employing both implicit and explicit attitude measures, investigates 158 Japanese university students' perceptions of forms of UK, US, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Indian English speech. The results show a general convergence between students' explicit and implicit attitudes, for instance, regarding US and UK English as the most correct, and solidarity with Japanese speakers of English. The findings are discussed in relation to intergroup relations between the traditional Japanese cohort and specific groups of overseas students, particularly in light of recent internationalisation policies adopted by many Japanese universities, and the resultant increase in international students from South and East Asia.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The people who are out of ‘right’ English”: Japanese university students' social evaluations of English language diversity and the internationalisation of Japanese higher education

McKenzie

Gilmore

2015

Int J App Linguistics

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“…The medical model, to which…Japan subscribes, constructs disability in terms of individual flaws which prevent people from living a 'normal' life and require medical intervention and rehabilitation. 4 In other words, people with disabilities are on the periphery of Japanese society because they are seen as abnormal, and their "special needs" prevent them from claiming equal rights.…”

Section: Discrimination and Marginalization Against Disabled And Lgbtmentioning

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"I Hear You Just Fine": Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino's I Hear the Sunspot

Percy

2020

JAMS

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Yuki Fumino’s currently ongoing series, I Hear the Sunspot, is a manga that provides a voice for those on the “outside” of society as it examines Japanese cultural attitudes toward both disability and homosexuality. Employing a range of characters, the manga confronts the problem of compulsory able-bodiedness and the need for disabled persons to fill prescribed roles, the process of moving away from self-isolation to self-acceptance, and the debate between living insularly within a disabled community or community building between disabled and nondisabled communities. Fumino uses the figure of Kohei to represent the struggles of self-acceptance as it relates to intersectional queer and disabled identities, and the figure of Taichi to represent the ‘bridge’ of community building as a catalyst to this self-acceptance in a society where both disabled and queer communities are seen as outsiders.

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“…A similar phenomenon is also observable in contemporary Japan. Analysing discriminatory discourse about minority populations in contemporary Japan, Gottlieb () speaks of ‘outsiders within’. She describes the process of constructing identity as ‘assigning to ourselves and to others labels which shape our concepts of who and what we or they are’ because ‘by defining others as what we are not, we emphasize what it is that we think we are, at both the personal and social level, often without actually spelling it out’, and in order to construct the image of the ‘mainstream’ group, minority groups are labelled as ‘undesirably different’ and thus those minority groups fulfil a contrapuntal role as ‘outsiders within’ (ibid.:4).…”

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“…According to the analysis of Gottlieb (:5), the minority groups included in discriminatory discourse include low‐income people, women, naturalized foreign residents, people with disabilities, and people who used to be discriminated against under the caste system used in the pre‐modern period. Again, it should be pointed out that they are all holders of official Japanese nationality who exist inside of the national community of Japan.…”

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Nationalism and Linguistic Purism in ContemporaryJapan: National Sentiment Expressed through Public Attitudes towards Foreignisms

Hosokawa

2015

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Linguistic purism is a term that refers to the urge to preserve a ‘desirable’ language form while eliminating ‘undesirable’ linguistic elements – a drive profoundly intertwined with nationalism. A particularly salient manifestation of this phenomenon is the controversy on the use of foreign loanwords. This article examines the contrasting expressions and metaphors used to describe the national language and foreignisms found in newspaper articles published in contemporary Japan and argues that the growing tendency to discuss national language in contrast to foreignisms can be understood as a particular manifestation of ongoing (re)negotiation of national identity. Criticisms and praises of the use of loanwords are found to be grounded upon a desire to establish specific understandings of Japaneseness in reference to the otherness felt within a society that is symbolized by loanwords, constructing an ‘internal Other’ to a Japanese ‘Self’, the identity of which is neither autonomous nor clearly delineated.

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Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan

Cited by 51 publications

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“The people who are out of ‘right’ English”: Japanese university students' social evaluations of English language diversity and the internationalisation of Japanese higher education

“The people who are out of ‘right’ English”: Japanese university students' social evaluations of English language diversity and the internationalisation of Japanese higher education

"I Hear You Just Fine": Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino's I Hear the Sunspot

Nationalism and Linguistic Purism in ContemporaryJapan: National Sentiment Expressed through Public Attitudes towards Foreignisms

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