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Publication details [#14754]

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi. 1997. Affect and letter-writing: Unconventional conventions in casual writing by young Japanese women. Language in Society 26 (1) : 103–136.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | letter | literacy | pictorial co-text | writing

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

It is shown how young Japanese women manipulate shape, form and function of their letters in order to forge reciprocal relationships with their addressees. It is argued that these features potentially represent a new literacy mode, one that is motivated by social change.