Judit Kroo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Judit Kroo plays a role.
Articles
2022 Negotiating identities: First person pronominal use between Japanese university students Pragmatics and Society 13:1, pp. 22–44 | Article
This study examines processes through which social personae are conveyed by male Japanese students at a public university in Yokohama. Focusing on the frame-setting function of first person pronominals (FPPs) in contexts where there is no intra/inter speaker variation in the choice of FPP, this… read more
2021 Discourse (re)-framing: Narratives of adulthood in contemporary Japan Language, Culture and Society 3:1, pp. 82–106 | Article
Focusing on the move from gakusei ‘student’ to shakaijin ‘working adult, lit. fully socialized adult’ during a period of continuing economic stagnation and social dislocation, the current study analyzes contemporary Japanese university students’ alignments with respect to ideologies surrounding… read more
2018 Gentle masculinity in East Asia: ‘Herbivore Men’ and interlocutor constructed language Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2, pp. 251–280 | Article
This study considers the Japanese phenomenon of sooshokukei-danshi (SKD) ‘Herbivore Men’ within larger discourses of ‘East-Asian gentle masculinity.’ Focusing on lexical variation across both scripted and naturalistic data, the current study argues that while use of salient variables by SKD… read more