Miyako Inoue (born 1962) is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life.
Her recent book 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 society,[1] 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).