Socializing Identities Through Speech Style - Learners of Japanese As a Foreign Language

Informationen zum Autor Haruko Minegishi Cook is a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from University of Southern California. Her main research interests include language socialization, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She has published in major journals and edited volumes and a number of articles on the Japanese sentence-final particles, honorifics, and style shift from a constructivist perspective. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Haruko Minegishi Cook, Haruko Minegishi (University of Hawaii At Ma Cook, Haruko Minegishi (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Cook
• Editore: Multilingual Matters
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.2008
• EAN: 9781847691002
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-100-2
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisitions; Second Language Acquisition
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per corsi di lingua; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature