Coverpage -- Series Editor -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework -- Locating Autoethnography in SLA and Applied Linguistics -- Researcher Positionality -- Organization of the Book -- 1 The Postmodern Basis of Autoethnography -- Language, Subjectivity, Reflexivity -- What Autoethnography Does and How It Does It -- 2 Narrative Inquiry in SLA and Applied Linguistics -- Postmodernist Interpretations of the Interconnectednessof SLA and Identity -- Summary -- Part 2 -- 3 In the Beginning: Situating the Story -- A Precarious Position -- 'Even if You Can Speak Japanese?' -- Getting by as Functional, Semiliterate and Privileged -- 'Are You Sure There's No Mistake?' -- A Sea of Languages -- Summary -- 4 In the Middle: Love, Marriage, Family -- Love at First Sight and Sound -- The Language of Love -- Marriage -- Neighbors -- Family Life and Language at Home -- L2 Parenting -- The Regime of Obentoo -- 5 Career Discourse(s) -- Language at Work -- Workplace Discourse(s) -- Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk -- Meetings -- Students as Cultural and Linguistic Informants -- Texting -- Summary -- 6 Where I Am Now: Two Days in the Life of an Expatriate -- Next Day, December 30 -- Epilogue -- Closing Discussion -- Theoretical Starting Point -- Implications for SLA and Applied Linguistics Research -- Appendix 1 Foreign population -- Appendix 2 Newspaper article -- Appendix 3 Typical examples of Mayor Kawamura's 'Nagoya dialect' -- Appendix 4 Examples of Japanese emoticons -- Appendix 5 Manual for high school visits -- References -- Index.