Socializing Identities Through - Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language

Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through style shift between the masu and plain forms in a homestay context. Going beyond the usual assumption that the masu form is a polite speech marker, the book analyzes the masu form as an index of various social identities and activities. The book discusses both socialization through speech styles and socialization to use an appropriate speech style. Qualitative analysis of dinnertime conversations demonstrates how learners are implicitly and explicitly socialized into the norms of style shift in Japanese in interaction with their host family members.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Haruko Minegishi Cook
• Editore: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.2008
• EAN: 9781847691019
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-101-9
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 499 g
• Serie: Second Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisitions
• 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 > Linguistica generale e comparata