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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary…
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Steinhoff, Patricia G.

Going to Court to Change Japan takes us inside movements dealing with causes as disparate as death by overwork, the rights of the deaf, access to prisoners on death row, consumer product safety, workers whose companies go bankrupt, and persons convicted of crimes they did not commit. Each of the six fascinating case studies stands on its own as a detailed account of how a social movement has pe…

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978-1-929280-84-1
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Michigan monograph series in japanese studies ; no. 77
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340.309 52 GOI
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A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
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Reginald Jackson

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale…

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The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction
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Julia C. Bullock

The Other Women's Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s - a full decade before the "women's lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female writers of avant-garde fiction from this generation: Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these write…

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Information structure in spoken Japanese : Particles, word order, and intonation
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Nakagawa, Natsuko

This study explores information structure (IS) within the framework of corpus linguistics and functional linguistics. As a case study, it investigates IS phenomena in spoken Japanese: particles including so-called topic particles, case particles, and zero particles; word order; and intonation. The study discusses how these phenomena are related to cognitive and communicative mechanisms of humans.

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978-3-96110-138-2
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Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 8
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Beginning Japanese for Professionals
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KONOMI,Emiko

This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Langu…

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