著者

山下 早代子

出版者

実践女子大学

雑誌

実践女子大学下田歌子記念女性総合研究所 年報 = The Annual Bulletin of the Shimoda Utako Research Institute for Woman (ISSN:24342718)

巻号頁・発行日

no.5, pp.15-33, 2019-03-15

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This article gives an overview of the current trends in research in female language and in what way the perspective under which this research is carried out will change. Influenced by the problems raised in earlier studies (Jugaku, 1979; Ide, 1997; Nakamura, 2012), recent research has seen a growing body of studies addressing sentence final particles, personal pronouns, discussions of discourse, etc. Along with that, inspired by the research on the influence of gender on language use by Lakoff (1973), many researchers have analyzed women's language from the viewpoint of gender ideology. Additionally, research methods have changed to include various new types of data besides natural conversation and questionnaires, such as female language in novels, movies, TV dramas, translated texts, elementary school textbooks, dictionaries, blogs, cartoons, etc. From these, I will summarize the current shape of research in female language and then discuss the likely future direction of this research.