TY - BOOK ID - 64921538 TI - The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies PY - 2020 SN - 3030414337 3030414329 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) KW - Ideal beautiful women KW - Aesthetics KW - Women in art KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Culture. KW - Gender. KW - Women. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Language and Gender. KW - Culture and Gender. KW - Women's Studies. KW - Discourse Analysis. KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64921538 AB - “A stimulating and timely contribution to the gender and language field! In this engaging work, Natalia Konstantinovskaia tackles the complex interrelations between beauty ideologies and women’s agency in Russia and Japan.” --Momoko Nakamura, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan This book conducts a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of 'women’s language' as it pertains to feminine beauty. It examines the ideological constructs of beauty and femininity in the cultures of Japan and Russia, as embodied through televised beauty ads, and relates them to the real-world language practices of Japanese and Russian women. The author traces the reciprocal connection between women’s real and imagined language in the construction of ideals of beauty and femininity, revealing the complex ways women respond to ideological expectations regarding language use: assimilating, transforming, and subverting ideologized language and the assumptions implicit in it. She also demonstrates ways in which women alter the texture of language by appropriating 'masculine' language for their own purposes, shifting the meaning and correlates of linguistic items and structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language and gender, cultural and media studies, and Russian and Japanese culture. Natalia Konstantinovskaia is Senior Japanese Language Expert at Busuu in London, UK. She earned her PhD in Japanese Linguistics from the University of California, US. ER -