This essay is about how boku, a first person pronoun or self-reference form for males, came into existence in Japanese. It appeared rather abruptly in Japanese around the time of the Meiji Restoration, and it has quickly ...

The argument that female speakers are under the pressure of the "femininity constraint" has already been accepted by many linguists studying the relationship between language and gender. Women are in most societies expected ...

Workshop by 日本語ジェンダー学会 (the Society for Gender Studies in Japanese) in Hawaii in 2008.

The study explores the interactions between syntactic rules governing the use of the particle KANA, the metric constraints on haiku and the poetic intention of the art of haiku.

Translation is impossible but necessary -- so Gayatri Spivak stated in the International Symposium at the University of Hawaii (Translation: Theory, practice, trope, 22–23 January 2007). The difficulty is predictably greater ...