Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Impressionistic observations of men’s and women’s voice
Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa [+]
University of Iowa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa is Assistant Professor of Japanese sociolinguistics teaching in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa. She is a former student of Robin Lakoff and Yoko Hasegawa at the University of California, Berkeley where she received her doctoral degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures
Description
This chapter contains the author's collection of the impressionistic portrayals of men’s and women’s voice pitch characteristics in Japan and the United States as found in novels, handbooks, and scholars’ comments. The Japanese materials date back from as early as eleventh-century Japan, while American materials date back only to the seventeenth century.