Japanese Gendered Features, Idols, and the Ideal Female Romantic Partner

dc.contributor.authorHuaman, Jaqueline
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-11T01:03:59Z
dc.date.available2018-07-11T01:03:59Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description57 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractGendered language features, or lack thereof, are utilized in Japanese society to perpetuate feminine ideals in the media. This thesis focuses specifically on how the ideal female romantic partner is portrayed in modern Japanese media through the use of gendered language features. Japanese has been considered a very gendered language. However, more recent research has questioned whether the description of gendered features in Japanese reflects a language ideal or language reality. For example, in 2004, Janet Shibamoto-Smith investigated language and its use as a cultural model for romance, specifically looking at how language was used by the protagonists of romance novels in the 1980s and 1990s in Japan. Similarly, this paper explores how Japanese idol music serves as a model for romance and ideal female partners in contemporary society. Following the methodology set up by Shibamoto-Smith, this study investigates language use in the media of the 2010s in order to analyze the linguistic representations of an ideal female partner.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/23399
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectJapanese Gendered Languageen_US
dc.subjectJapanese Idolsen_US
dc.subjectIdeal Femaleen_US
dc.subjectGender and Languageen_US
dc.titleJapanese Gendered Features, Idols, and the Ideal Female Romantic Partneren_US
dc.typeThesis / Dissertationen_US

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