Chapter published in:
The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the marginsEdited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent A. de Rooij
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 45] 2018
► pp. 89–112
Chapter 5Us, them and all the others
Analyzing belonging among Japanese immigrant women in The Netherlands
Anna Banaś | Victoria University of Wellington
This study examines the linguistic practices of a group of Japanese immigrant women temporarily living in Amstelveen, and their ways of constructing belonging. Taking as an example three linguistic variables: (i) personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’; (ii) specific ethnic labels (single self-referring label Nihonjin ‘The Japanese’ versus multiple labels Orandajin, Oranda no hito/hitotachi, Orandajin no hito/hitotachi, Oranda ‘The Dutch’); and (iii) the use of non-standard Osaka Japanese negation I discuss how speakers in this group (re)create various boundaries, and how they draw on ‘us’ versus ‘them’ dichotomy as a way of achieving group cohesion.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Constructing belonging
- Ethnographic background
- ‘Japan on the Amstel’
- The Club
- Participants
- Data and methods
- Language resources as means for indexing belonging
- Personal pronouns: From ‘I’ to ‘we’
- Ethnic labels
- The use of standard and non-standard negation
- Discussion and conclusions
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References
Published online: 07 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.45.05ban
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.45.05ban
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Matsumoto, K. & Britain, D.
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Strycharz-Banaś, A.
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Wodak, R.
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