MDSB09H3 Chapter PDF: Those Naughty Teenage Girls - Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments (Miller)
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Those naughty teenage girls: japanese kogals, slang, and media assessments. 225-247] (laura miller) : this article examines critiques and displays of the japanese kogal, which is a female. Japanese subculture known for challenging the longstanding norms of adolescent femininity through their gender-transgressing identity and language style. In addition to the prewar moga, during the 1920s there were kiss girls and boat girls who exchanged kisses for a modest fee, as well as movie theater ushers called cinema. Salary girls prefigured the postwar business girls, later renamed office ladies in the. Japan"s kogals maintain their own language forms in the face of negative sanctions and openly endorse a denigrated philosophy that celebrates the self above any other social concern, rejecting the premium out on female self-sacrifice in mainstream. Japanese culture: an interesting feature of kogal speech is their practices of self-reference. In addition to novel words, kogals are known for widespread lexical truncation.
