Socializing Identities through Speech Style : Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language.
Title:
Socializing Identities through Speech Style : Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language.
Author:
Cook, Haruko Minegishi.
ISBN:
9781847691026
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Second Language Acquisition, No. 32 ; v.No. 32
Second Language Acquisition, No. 32
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: An Indexical Approach to Language and Language Socialization -- Chapter 2 Social Meaning and Indexicality -- Chapter 3 Functions of the Masu Form -- Chapter 4 Identity Construction Through Use of the Masu Form: JFL Learners and Host Families -- Chapter 5 Marked and Unmarked Uses of the Masu Form in the Homestay Context -- Chapter 6 Explicit Language Socialization: Socialization to Use Polite Language -- Chapter 7 Implications of the Study for L2 Pragmatics and Pedagogy -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Questionnaire for JFL Learners -- Appendix 2 Questionnaire for Host Families (English Translation) -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through speech style.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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