This is the first volume of the Kobe Study, a longitudinal project investigating the changes in language use in the speech of working-class Japanese women from the Kobe-Osaka region over thirty years (1989−2019). Social anthropologist Kaori Okano interviewed twenty-one women at regular intervals during this period, accompanying their life-course trajectories from the conclusion of high school until their mid forties. The first phase of the study centres on one of these women, Kanako, who starts the research as a final-year high school student experiencing the school-to-work transition and finishes it as a wife and mother of three who accumulates multiple identities. This volume focuses on interviews conducted in 1989 and 2000, seeking to examine how discourse produced in interactions between two individuals (Kanako and the researcher) changes over time, thus aiming to contribute both to the longitudinal study of language variation and the linguistics of Japanese. Employing the multi-analytical discourse approach (MAD), an interdisciplinary team composed by Okano and four linguists from diverse fields conducted analyses of the transcribed interviews, considering both linguistic and ethnographic data. In ch. 1, the editors introduce and situate the study. Ch. 2 presents Okano's ethnographic account of Kanako's life from 1989 to 2000, investigating the social roles she accumulates and the multiple identities she performs over her twenties, when she navigates between being a student, a worker, a wife, and a mother, amongst several other roles. In ch. 3, Lidia Tanaka compares Kanako's use of discourse markers on both interviews (1989 and 2000), as well as her code-switching between Standard Japanese (SJ) and Kobe and Osaka dialects. The chapter contends that the participant's more recurrent use of SJ variants in 2000, combined with a less frequent employment of DMs, points to the construction of a more mature and experienced Kanako, whose speech has arguably changed over the decade due to her new life experiences. In ch. 4, Claire Maree discusses how interviewer and interviewee discursively engage in the negotiation of their multiple
Resumo O discurso médico do século XIX listava uma série de desordens físicas e mentais associadas aos órgãos reprodutivos das mulheres (Rohden, 2009). Um fenômeno corporal até hoje frequentemente construído como patológico é a menstruação (Vieira, 2002), para o qual existe uma ferramenta médica de intervenção amplamente empregada: a pílula anticoncepcional. Como o período menstrual é muitas vezes visto como um problema, sua interrupção por meio da ingestão contínua da pílula é recorrentemente propagada como a solução (Kissling, 2013). À luz dessas ideias, analiso como duas mulheres autoidentificadas como feministas negociam significados sobre a pílula, a menstruação e a supressão menstrual em entrevistas orais semiestruturadas. O objetivo do trabalho é investigar como sentidos biomédicos sobre o corpo feminino são discursivamente reificados, desafiados e corporificados.
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