Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles

Gottlieb, Nanette

doi:10.1080/10371397.2010.518600

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“…In more creative or flexible styles/mediums of writing (e.g. manga, advertising, online communication), script variation can be even further pronounced, as the fact that any script can technically represent almost any word opens the door for a wide variety of creative play (Gottlieb ; Robertson ). Table shows three examples.…”

Section: Script and Script Selection In Contemporary Japanese Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

He's more katakana than kanji: Indexing identity and self‐presentation through script selection in Japanese manga (comics)

Robertson

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper examines the role of script selection in indexing identities and styles of self‐presentation within a Japanese manga (comic). By cataloguing where the kanji, hiragana, and katakana scripts are used to represent first person pronouns, I establish the contexts where each script/pronoun combination serves as a locally normative representation. These norms are compared against non‐normative representations to gain insight into the local meanings associated with the various scripts. Analysis of the variant forms is combined with an interview with the manga's author. Ultimately, the results reveal that the contribution of script to the meaning of a Japanese text goes beyond any single marked selection, and involves interactions between both locally normative patterns of script use and meaningful local violations of these norms. Selections of script are seen to convey nuances in how meaning is constructed in the text, as well as reflecting wider ideologies about language use in Japan.

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Section: Script and Script Selection In Contemporary Japanese Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

He's more katakana than kanji: Indexing identity and self‐presentation through script selection in Japanese manga (comics)

Robertson

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…In standard Japanese, kanji is used for many lexical items, hiragana for function words and katakana for onomatopoeia and loan words. This standardised system leaves room for creative engagement with text, and non-conventional writing is not a new phenomenon in Japan (Tranter, 2008(Tranter, , 2010(Tranter, , 2011Gottlieb, 2009;Miller, 2004Miller, , 2011. Creative puns and word plays, non-standard combinations of syllabary and scripts have been a long-established feature of Japanese literature, manga and advertising (Tranter, 2008).…”

Section: Deviant Orthography and Eccentric Spellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contemporary research has showcased the variety and creativity of non-standard writing abundant in contemporary Japanese culture. Academic discourse on non-standard writing has employed terms such as 'language play' (Gottlieb, 2010), 'subversive script' (Miller, 2004(Miller, , 2011, 'eccentric spelling' (Nishimura, 2003;Danet, 2001) and 'deviant' orthography (Okamoto, 2006). The notion that writing may be playful, eccentric and/or deviant is insightful because the writing of a queer style into popular culture involves both an engagement with deviance and a standardisation vis-à-vis heteronormativity.…”

Section: Deviant Orthography and Eccentric Spellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing Onê: Deviant Orthography and Heternormativity in Contemporary Japanese Lifestyle Culture

Maree¹

2013

Media International Australia

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Since the turn of the millennium, Japanese variety television has witnessed a revival in onê-kyara (queen personalities). In contemporary lifestyle media, the trans-gendered onê-personality figure is demonstrative of how suitable consumption and personal effort can bring forth the transformational happiness of the individual. The transgressive, radical potential of the figure of transformative non-normative gender is muffled by the onê-personality's positioning within variety television as a friendly expert of extraordinary and often comical proportions. Language is one of the key sites where the tensions of critical expertise and queerness are negotiated via synthetic friendship and comic relief. In lifestyle media, onê-kyara-kotoba (queen-personality-talk) is juxtaposed with conventional Japanese and emerging practices of digital orthography. This social practice of writing effectively facilitates the contemporary fetish of the onê (queen), and the consumption of homosexual and trans-gendered lifestyle experts selling the promise of heteronormative romantic love.

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“…As for the use of small moji in irregular places, Gottlieb (2011) notes that this is done with the intention of adding cuteness to the message. All this is a reflection of style as a representation of identity: writers apply an image or description to characterise the personality they have or even that they want to have.…”

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CMC and Its Psychological Motives in Communication: A Case Study in Japanese Mobile Phone-E-Mail

Sakai¹

2018

ASS

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The study investigates 60 young people aged 18 to 30 who are familiar with mobile phone e-mail (Keitai-mail) practices in Japan (a 1-to-1 ratio of male and female, the participants' domiciles in several big Japanese cities) using a questionnaire on how they feel about CMC communication, in order to elucidate one type of widely used communication methods in the time the IT has been offering the variety of communication platforms. The result shows that senders are ruled by the norms entailed in Keitai-mail communication: Keitai-mail should be responded to immediately but should also be a complete sentence or message. In addition, the expressions used in Keitai-mail vary based on the interlocutors, making Keitai-mail a heavily context-dependent communication medium.

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Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

He's more katakana than kanji: Indexing identity and self‐presentation through script selection in Japanese manga (comics)

He's more katakana than kanji: Indexing identity and self‐presentation through script selection in Japanese manga (comics)

Writing Onê: Deviant Orthography and Heternormativity in Contemporary Japanese Lifestyle Culture

CMC and Its Psychological Motives in Communication: A Case Study in Japanese Mobile Phone-E-Mail

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