Publications
Publication details [#54942]
Miller, Laura. 2011. Subversive script and novel graphs in Japanese girls’ culture. Language & Communication 31 (1) : 16–26.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses how young Japanese women transgress ideals of fit literacy, especially notions on normative women’s writing, when they construct carefully concocted but hard-to-read texts. This novel style constitutes a generational and gendered identity marker.