Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
A personal illustration of the interconnectedness between language and identity as dynamic entities.
What linguistic anthropologist Miyako Inoue did for Japanese women’s language, Maree has done for onē-kotoba and onē-kyara—the language of queerqueen personalities.
The Chinese character ‘xing’ (性 ) has had varied usage and multiple meanings across time.
WEBINAR: How COVID-19 is changing language and social norms in Japan and South Korea.
Power relationships are created, maintained and disputed through the ways in which the world is understood through language.
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