目次
CHAPTER 1
Does a Doctor Speak Doctor’s Language? The Role Language of an Elderly Male
1. Dr. Ochanomizu
2. Dr. Temma
3. Seeking the Origin of Doctor’s Language
CHAPTER 2
Stereotypes and Role Language
1. What is stereotype?
2. Real Life versus Virtual Reality
3. Culture, Media, and Stereotypes
4. The Hero’s Journey
CHAPTER 3
Standard Language and Non-Standard Language
1. What Constitutes Rural Language?
2. The Structure of Standard Language and Role Language
3. The Formation of Standard Language
4. History of the Osaka and Kansai Characters
CHAPTER 4
Male Language: Its Root is Samurai Language
1. A Change of Standard Language
2. The History of Male Language
3. Role language as a Kamen (Persona)
CHAPTER 5
Where is the Princess? Female Language
1. Ochōfujin (Madame Butterfly)
2. Gender Diff erences in Language
3. Women in Ukiyoburo (The Bathhouse of the Floating World)
4. Edo Language and Modern Female Language
5. The Emergence of teyo dawa
6. The Spread of the teyo dawa Language
7. The Further Spread of the teyo dawa Language
8. The Decline of the teyo dawa Language
CHAPTER 6
Perception to Aliens
1. Aruyo Language
2. Categorization of the Ijin (Alien)
3. Language Projection
4. The Prototype and Development of Aruyo Language
5. Beyond Role Language
Appendix
Modern Japanese “Role Language” (Yakuwarigo):
Fictionalised Orality in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
1. Introduction
2. Some Key Concepts of Role Language
2.1 Formation of Role Language
2.2 Function of Role Language in Fiction
2.3 Role Languages versus Sociolects/Actual Speech Styles
2.4 Types of Role Language
2.5 Role Language Research
3. Analyses of Established Role Languages in Japanese Fiction
3.1 Elderly Male Language
3.2 Chinese Person Type: Aruyo Language
3.3 Regional Dialect Speaker Types
3.4 Gendered Types: Female Language and Male Language
4. Crosslinguistic Studies of Role Languages
5. Conclusions
Sources of Texts
References
