Expression of kawaii (‘cute’): gender reinforcement of young Japanese female school children
This paper examines the Japanese word kawaii ‘cute’. Teachers frequently use kawaii to show positive feelings toward objects in the classroom. Female children also are primary users of the word, which suggests that they are acquiring kawaii as an index of female gender identity. From a linguistic pe...
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Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED542349.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45455 |