Hiroko Itakura

List of John Benjamins publications for which Hiroko Itakura plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Most previous studies of language and gender have focused on English as well as women’s language. The present study focuses on context dependency and the multiple functions of Japanese men’s language, or “masculine Japanese.” It reports a case study that qualitatively analyzes four conversations… read more
Itakura, Hiroko 2014 Femininity in mixed-sex talk and intercultural communication: Are Japanese women polite and submissive?Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 455–483 | Article
Previous studies of language and gender discuss how men and women use gender-specific conversational styles mainly in relation to English, whereas similar studies for Asian languages remain comparatively few. Moreover, little is known about gender and conversational styles during intercultural… read more