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Publication details [#54942]

Miller, Laura. 2011. Subversive script and novel graphs in Japanese girls’ culture. Language & Communication 31 (1) : 16–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | girls' language | identity negotiation | literacy | written language

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how young Japanese women transgress ideals of fit literacy, especially notions on normative women’s writing, when they construct carefully concocted but hard-to-read texts. This novel style constitutes a generational and gendered identity marker.