Language Learning, Gender and Desire - Japanese Women on the Move

This book explores Japanese women's desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates how such desire impacts upon the linguistic, social, and romantic choices made by young women in Japan and overseas.

About the author

Kimie Takahashi is Lecturer at the Graduate School of English at Assumption University of Thailand. Her research interests centre on gender, second language learning and social inclusion in the context of transmigration. She is co-founder of the sociolinguistics website Language on the Move (www.languageonthemove.org).

Summary

This book explores Japanese women's desire for English as a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on ethnographic data and critical discourse analysis, the book illuminates how such desire impacts upon the linguistic, social, and romantic choices made by young women in Japan and overseas.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Kimie Takahashi, Kimie Takahashi
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2013
• EAN: 9781847698544
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-854-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories