Giáo trình luyện tập đàm thoại tiếng Nhật căn bản trọn bộ 2 CDROM Japanese The Spoken Language full 2 CDROM Sổ tay sử dụng tính từ và trạng từ trong ngữ pháp tiếng Nhật The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs - Taeko Kamiya | WOMANSWORD What Japanese Words __Say_ About Women_ Kittredge Cherry KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL Tokyo and New York kai Shellfish 111 nigo Number Two 113 rezubian Lesbians 115 Seiko Mixing Heart and Life 116 shojo Home Girls 118 sopu redi Soap Ladies 119 sukin redi Skin Ladies 122 yugurezoku The Twilight Tribe 124 7 Nice Middies Do AGING 125 konenki mibojin naisu midi obaasan Renewal Time 126 The Not-Yet-Dead People 127 Nice Middies 128 Grandmothers 130 obasute-yama shutome Mount Granny Abandonment 131 Mothers-in-Law 133 sodai gomi urenokori Giant Garbage 135 Unsold Goods 136 Japanese Word Index 139 Index 147 Preface I many Japanese terms explained in Womansword the title of this blink has a double meaning. It can be pronounced woman s word In mean a woman s way of looking at words. Words are often used Willi the same nuances by and about both genders but Womansword Im uses on those that are not. This type of analysis can cut incisively III the heart of cultural assumptions hence the alternate pronuncia-lion woman sword. Its application to Japanese language is par-ill Iilarly appropriate since women there have been parrying and ni l-thing with actual swords since the seventeenth century. The of samurai warriors were expected to master the use of a halbiid called a naginata by age eighteen both for exercise and so lilt V I ould defend their home and their honor fighting to the death II ni tessary. Today naginata swordplay continues to be the only art in Japan where women predominate. All of this I wanted III I uiivey in the title but no existing English word would do it. As I Will ki d on the book struggling to make one language explain iHiilhci I came to feel I deserved to create a word of my own. Mv efforts to make sense of the contrast between Japanese and I Hglish words began shortly after I stepped off the plane at Narita All IIIIII 111 1982 a young American woman eager to conquer the 11 Illi .I language and .