Talk:Burikko

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October 2018[edit]

This article makes several assertion that are not supported, either because there are no references or because the references cited are not directly on point.

There is a suggestion in the second paragraph that lolicon and burikko are the same phenomenon, which I don't believe is the case. Perhaps that is not the intent of the paragraph, but that is certainly the meaning I take from it.
Paragraph three says, "[Burikko] started off with women adopting the sound of a baby", but the cited source does not say this. According to the source, baby-talk developed alongside "kitten writing", styles of handwriting or fonts associated with burikko. It does not say, however, that such baby-talk is the "start" of burikko.
Paragraph four says, "The maid café and butlers café are examples of the Burikko ways", but the cited source does not say this. There is, in fact, no mention of maid cafés in the source. That source seems to be cited only for the phrase "forced childishness", which is how that article translates/characterizes burikko.
Also in the fourth paragraph is a suggestion of various tarento "encouraging such acts by being Burikko themselves." There are no current citations either calling those individuals burikko or suggesting that their performances encourage others.

The following dead-tree sources may be useful for editors wishing to improve this article. You might be able to find them in university libraries or the like.

Miller, Laura (2004). "You are Doing Burikko!". In Okamoto, Shigeko; Smith, Janet Shibamoto (eds.). Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology. ISBN 9780195166170.
Inoue, Miyako (2006). Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. ISBN 0520245849.
Ueno, Chizuko (1982). セクシィ・ギャルの大研究：女の読み方・読まれ方・読ませ方 [Sexy girl research: Reading and being read as a woman] (in Japanese). ISBN 9784006002176.

Best, Cnilep (talk) 06:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the problematic assertions. Cnilep (talk) 03:45, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coined on a specific date?[edit]

Cherry Kittredge (1987), one of the most widely cited sources for the origin of the word burikko, asserts that "The word burikko was coined by one of these young 'talents', Kuniko Yamada, on a television program in 1980." That, unfortunately, is the entirety of Kittredge's etymological sketch. She doesn't tell us which television program, nor any other details. Laura Miller (2004), one of the other most widely cited sources, doesn't directly disagree with Kittredge, but she hedges the assertion, saying "Whether or not this is true, by at least 1981 burikko was commonly used in colloquial conversations, and the editors of an encyclopedia of postwar culture provided it on their list of trendy new words that were very popular that year (Sasaki et al. 1991: 1049)." (For completeness: Chizuko Ueno (1982), writing in Japanese, associates burikko style primarily with Matsuda Seiko, but doesn't suggest when or where the word arose.)

While I can't say that Kittredge was incorrect, I'm also not confident that she was precisely correct. I would not be surprised to learn that some people were using the word before 1980, just not on television. An earlier version of this article hedged a bit: "The term was coined during the 1980s, and is sometimes attributed to Japanese comedian Kuniko Yamada" (citing Kittredge). If that seems overly hedged, removing the sometimes may be appropriate, as many subsequent scholars cite Kittredge's assertion (though as far as I have seen, none add context or make it more specific). Cnilep (talk) 05:55, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]