Chapter 4
Married names
Continuous identities and social conflict
Article outline
- The semiotics of continuous identity
- Power, hierarchy and expediency
- “This must be some import from Chicago”
- Rationale for name retention
- Diglossic naming
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Fūfu Bessei vs Fūfu Dōsei (‘separate’ vs ‘same’ married names)
- History of the Fūfu Bessei movement
- Rationale for name change
- Structural transformations