Miyako Inoue (born 1962) is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Social

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, California. She received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life. Inoue teaches linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Japan.

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Her recent book ''Vicarious Language: the Political Economy of Gender and Speech in Japan'' (University of California Press), examines a phenomenon commonly called "

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" in Japanese society, and offers a genealogy showing its critical linkage with Japan's national and capitalist modernity. Inoue's recent articles include "The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double: Citing, Sighting, and Siting the Modern Japanese Woman" (2003), and "What does Language Remember?: Indexical Order and the Naturalized History of Japanese Women" (2003).

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