Stenography and ventriloquism in late nineteenth century Japan

In anticipation of the opening of the Diet (the Japanese national legislature) in 1890, Japanese entrepreneurs developed stenographic systems by adapting Western shorthand techniques. Stenography thus rendered it possible, at least in its claim, for the first time, for the speaking event temporally...

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Published inLanguage & communication Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 181 - 190
Main Author Inoue, Miyako
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2011
Pergamon Press Inc
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Friedrich Kittler
Historical analysis
Japanese language
Linguistic modernity
Paperwork
Semiotics
Stenography
Ventriloquism
Writing
Japan
Stenography
Friedrich Kittler
Paperwork
Japanese language
Linguistic modernity
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Summary:In anticipation of the opening of the Diet (the Japanese national legislature) in 1890, Japanese entrepreneurs developed stenographic systems by adapting Western shorthand techniques. Stenography thus rendered it possible, at least in its claim, for the first time, for the speaking event temporally and spatially to be mobile and universally to re-present itself—with the original “truth” of the speech event intact. Drawing on archival material from organs of professional stenographers’ associations and primers for Japanese stenography published between the 1880s and the 1910s, this paper discusses how such presumed semiotic capacity was linked up with the production of the modern Japanese (speaking) subject.
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ISSN:0271-5309
1873-3395
DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2011.03.001