Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Beyond: Potential Social Indices Behind Osaka Dialect

Abstract

This study examines the prospective role of Osaka dialect, a language variation in Japan, in indexing masculinity, fatherhood, and social class. The 2013 film Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) employs Osaka dialect to shape a new style fatherhood that is affective and warm, and engaged in child-rearing, differing from the hegemonic father image of an unconnected salaryman. Prior studies on this film have closely examined either the detailed use in the film, or to what extent the audience actually recognizes the mediatized Osaka dialect. With an approach of perception study, this study advances the previous research by asking the following research questions: (1) whether the audience perceives the targeted indices of the Osaka dialect in this film as the previous research has argued, and if so, to what extent; and (2) what other indices do audiences associate with Osaka dialect, such as social class, affect, or personality.

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