Language Learning, Gender and Desire PB - 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.

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kimie Takahashi
• Editore: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.01.2013
• EAN: 9781847698537
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-853-7
• Pagine: 200
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 206 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 272 g
• Serie: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata