In this chapter, we analyze Japanese women’s narratives about their child-rearing experiences to reveal the meta-level of positioning of their husbands’ involvement through examining the use and non-use of benefactive verb forms. We pose the grammatical form of benefactive, especially the -te… read more
In this paper, I analyse women’s interview narratives from the United States and Japan about their child rearing experiences to examine how stance-taking towards their experiences and their family members manifest itself differently. Paying attention to the narratives regarding their husbands’… read more
Ide, Risako 2009 AisatsuCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 18–28 | Article