Miyako Inoue
Associate Professor of Anthropology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics
Bio
Miyako Inoue teaches linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Japan. She also has a courtesy appointment with the Department of Linguistics.
Her first book, titled, Vicarious Language: the Political Economy of Gender and Speech in Japan (University of California Press), examines a phenomenon commonly called "women's language" in Japanese modern society, and offers a genealogy showing its critical linkage with Japan's national and capitalist modernity. Professor Inoue is currently working on a book-length project on a social history of “verbatim” in Japanese. She traces the historical development of the Japanese shorthand technique used in the Diet for its proceedings since the late 19th century, and of the stenographic typewriter introduced to the Japanese court for the trial record after WWII. She is interested in learning what it means to be faithful to others by coping their speech, and how the politico-semiotic rationality of such stenographic modes of fidelity can be understood as a technology of a particular form of governance, namely, liberal governance. Publication that has come out of her current project includes, "Stenography and Ventriloquism in Late Nineteenth Century Japan." Language & Communication 31.3 (2011).
Professor Inoue's research interest: linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, semiotics, linguistic modernity, anthropology of writing, inscription devices, materialities of language, social organizations of documents (filing systems, index cards, copies, archives, paperwork), voice/sound/noise, soundscape, technologies of liberalism, gender, urban studies, Japan, East Asia.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Anthropology
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Linguistics
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (2007 - Present)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics, Stanford University (1996 - 2006)
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Visiting Faculty, Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation, Doshisha University (2010 - 2010)
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Faculty Member, Linguistics Institute, Stanford University (2007 - 2007)
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Adjunct Instructor, Women's Studies Program, Portland State University (2005 - 2005)
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Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford (2011 - 2012)
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Fellow, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford (2011 - 2012)
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Gordon and Dailey Pattee Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Alden H. and Winfred Brown Faculty Research Fellowship, Stanford University (2001 - 2002)
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Dean's Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Washington University (1994 - 1995)
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University Fellowship, Washington University (1993 - 1994)
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University Fellowship, Washington University (1987 - 1990)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Reviewer, American Anthropologist
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Reviewer, American Ethnologist
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Reviewer, Anthropological Quarterly
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Reviewer, American Quarterly
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Reviewer, Cultural Anthropology
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Reviewer, Human Organization
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Reviewer, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
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Reviewer, Social Science Japan Journal
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Reviewer, Multilingua
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Reviewer, Journal of Sociolinguistics
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Reviewer, positions
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Reviewer, Pragmatics
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Reviewer, Journal of Asian Studies
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Reviewer, Blackwell Publishers
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Reviewer, Routledge
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Reviewer, Stanford University Press
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Reviewer, Duke University Press
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Reviewer, University of California Press
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Member, Editorial Board, Oxford University Press, Series in Language and Gender Studies
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Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Sociolinguistics.
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Member, Advisory Board, Semiotic Review
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Member, The International Editorial Advisory Board, Social Anthropology
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Co-editor, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2008 - 2010)
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Member, H&S Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Stanford University
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Member, The University IRB Committee, Stanford University
Program Affiliations
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Science, Technology and Society
Professional Education
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Ph.D, Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Anthropology (1996)
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MA, University of Tsukuba, International Affairs, American Studies Program (1991)
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MA, Washington University, St. Louis., Anthropology (1989)
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BA, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, English (1986)
2024-25 Courses
- Japanese Anthropology
ANTHRO 157, ANTHRO 257 (Win) - Language and Power
ANTHRO 17N (Win) - Prefield Research Seminar
ANTHRO 93 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (15)
- Directed Individual Reading in Anthropology
ANTHRO 454 (Aut) - Directed Individual Study
ANTHRO 451 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Individual Study
ANTHRO 96 (Aut) - Graduate Directed Reading
EASTASN 300 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Internship
ANTHRO 452 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Teaching
ANTHRO 440 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study for Honors or Senior Paper Writing
ANTHRO 95B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Internship in Anthropology
ANTHRO 97 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Master's Project
ANTHRO 441 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Exam Preparation in Anthropology
ANTHRO 455 (Aut) - Qualifying Examination: Area
ANTHRO 401B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Examination: Topic
ANTHRO 401A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research Apprenticeship
ANTHRO 450 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research in Anthropology
ANTHRO 95 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Individual Reading in Anthropology
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Japanese Anthropology
ANTHRO 157, ANTHRO 257 (Win) - Language and Power
ANTHRO 17N (Win) - Prefield Research Seminar
ANTHRO 93 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Cultural Techniques
ANTHRO 354 (Win) - Japanese Anthropology
ANTHRO 157, ANTHRO 257 (Win) - Language, Gender and Sexuality
ANTHRO 134, ANTHRO 234 (Aut) - Postfield Research Seminar
ANTHRO 94 (Aut)
- Japanese Anthropology
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Alisha Cherian, Rosaley Gai, Aaron Hopes, Kristin McFadden, Jameelah Morris, Shikha Nehra, Andrew Nelson, Venolia Rabodiba, Valentina Ramia, Isabel Salovaara, Alek Sigley, Emily Wang -
Orals Chair
David Stentiford -
Master's Program Advisor
Montana Gray, Majesty Zander -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Angela Leocata -
Doctoral (Program)
Angela Leocata, Benjamin Perez, Madeline Turner, Maggie Zhang Grobowski
All Publications
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GENDER AND LANGUAGE
ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO GENDER AND JAPANESE CULTURE
2020: 40–49
View details for Web of Science ID 000535125600005
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Word for Word: Verbatim as Political Technologies
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ANTHROPOLOGY, VOL 47
2018; 47: 217–32
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041654
View details for Web of Science ID 000448557600014
- Matsutake Worlds Research Group. "A New Form of Collaboration in Cultural Anthropology: Matsutake Worlds." Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Reader edited by Robben, A., Sluka, J. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2012; 2nd: 409–440
- Neoliberal Speech Acts: The Equal Opportunity Law and Projects of the Self in a Japanese Corporate Office Global Futures in East edited by Anagnost, A., Arai, A., Hai, R. Stanford University Press. 2012
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Stenography and ventriloquism in late nineteenth century Japan
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
2011; 31 (3): 181-190
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.03.001
View details for Web of Science ID 000292789600003
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A new form of collaboration in cultural anthropology: Matsutake worlds
106th Annual Meeting of the American-Anthropological-Association
WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2009: 380–403
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01141.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000265222500011
- Matsutake Worlds Research Group: Strong Collaboration as a Method for Multi-Sited Ethnography Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research edited by Mark-Anthony, F., Hall, C. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2009: 197–241
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Things that speak: Peirce, Benjamin, and the kinesthetics of commodity advertisement in Japanese women's magazines, 1900 to the 1930s
POSITIONS-EAST ASIA CULTURES CRITIQUE
2007; 15 (3): 511-552
View details for DOI 10.1215/10679847-2007-004
View details for Web of Science ID 000251764300004
- Echoes of Modernity: Nationalism and the Enigma of "Women's Language" in Late Nineteenth Century Japan Words, Worlds, Material Girls: Language and Gender in a Global Economy. edited by McElhinny, B. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007: 157–204
- Language and Gender Identity in the Age of Neoliberalism Gender and Language 2007; 1 (1): 77-89
- Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Berkeley: University of California Press. 2006
- Standardization. Commissioned Essay Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics edited by Silverstein, M. Oxford: Elsevier Limited. 2006; 2nd
- What does Language Remember?: Indexical Order and the Naturalized History of Japanese Women Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2004; 14 (1): 39-56
- Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women's Language Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. edited by Okamoto, S., Shibamoto, J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004: 57–75
- The History of Ideology and the Ideology of History: Temporality in and through Linguistic Ideology. Introduction to Special Issue. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2004; 14 (1): 1-5
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Speech without a speaking body: "Japanese women's language" in translation
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
2003; 23 (3-4): 315-330
View details for DOI 10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00011-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000184389300006
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The listening subject of Japanese modernity and his auditory double: Citing, sighting, and siting the modern Japanese woman
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2003; 18 (2): 156-193
View details for Web of Science ID 000183341400002
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Gender, language, and modernity: toward an effective history of Japanese women's language
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
2002; 29 (2): 392-422
View details for Web of Science ID 000176847400007
- Vernacular Theories of Japanese Honorifics The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese 1999; 33 (1): 68-101
- A Women Manager and "Local" Metapragmatic Knowledge in a Tokyo Corporate Office Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Symposium about Language and Society 1995: 41–48
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Gender and linguistic modernization: Historicizing Japanese women's language
3rd Berkeley Women and Language Conference on Cultural Performances
BERKELEY WOMEN & LANGUAGE GROUP. 1994: 322–333
View details for Web of Science ID A1994BE89S00029
- Japanese-Americans in St. Louis: From Internees to Professionals City and Society 1989; 3 (2): 142-152