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Publication details [#26064]

Sakai, Naoki. Voices of the past: The status of language in eighteenth-century Japanese discourse. Cornell University Press. xiv + 349 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | historical explanation | language status

Language as a subject

Chinese, Old | Japanese, Old

Edition

Annotation

S. applies European poststructural speculation on discourse to two bodies of materials produced in Japan: philological tracts on Chinese language by Itô Jinsai (1627-1705) and Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728) and fragments of (mostly) Japanese-language Edo theatrical and scatological literature.

Reviewed by

Miller, Roy Andrew. 1993. Review of $Voices of the past: The status of language in eighteenth-century Japanese discourse.