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She received her Philosophy Doctor from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1996.
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Miyako Inoue
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She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life. Miyako Inoue teaches linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Japan. Her recent book Vicarious Language: the Political Economy of Gender and Speech in Japan (University of California Press), examines a phenomenon commonly called "women"s language" in Japanese society, and offers a genealogy showing its critical linkage with Japan"s national and capitalist modernity.
Inoue"s recent articles include "The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double: Citing, Sighting, and Siting the Modern Japanese Woman" (2003), and "What does Language Remember?: Indexical Order and the Naturalized History of Japanese Women" (2003).
