Dialect_card
Dialect card
Punitive mark indicating a person speaks a non-standard, stigmatized dialect
A dialect card (Japanese: 方言札, Hepburn: hōgen fuda) was a system of punishment used in Japanese regional schools in the post-Meiji period to promote standard speech. A student who spoke in dialect would be forced to wear the card until another student also spoke in dialect, and then it would pass to the new transgressor; the student wearing it at the end of the school day punished by the teachers.[1][2]
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