1st Edition

Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities Gender, Race and Native Speaker Ideology in Learning Japanese as an Additional Language

By Maki Yoshida Copyright 2025
206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia. It demonstrates that while participants are familiar with gendered Japanese as linguistic resources, their self- positioned and ascribed ‘learnersness’, ‘nonnative-speakerness’ and ‘non- Japaneseness’ both inside and outside classroom contexts... Read more

1 Introduction 2 Gendered Japanese, Gender Identities and Gender Ideologies: Learning Japanese in the Time of Globalisation and Accelerated Unequal Power Relations 3 JAL Participants’ Negotiation of Gendered Language and Gender Identities 4 Language and Gender Ideologies and ‘Learners of Japanese’ 5 JAL Participants’ Social Identities and Discursive Power Relations—Intersections of ‘Nativeness’, ‘Gender’, ‘Class’, ‘Age’ and ‘Race’ 6 Conclusion Appendix 1: Details of pre-recorded interaction Appendix 2: Questions for JAL participants’ diary entry Appendix 3: Template of questionnaire Appendix 4: Gendered linguistic features used as stimuli in one-on-one semi-structured interviews Appendix 5: Conventions employed for the transcriptions in the current study

Biography

Maki Yoshida is a Lecturer in Global and Language Studies at RMIT University. Her research explores the relationship between social structure, language and (gender) ideologies. It examines how the intersectionality of social categories and discursive power relations impinge on individual speakers’ negotiation of language and identities.