Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts
Hiroko Itakura
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.
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
2015 Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities: A case study of mixed-gender talk Pragmatics 25:2, pp. 179–203 | Article
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
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
2011 Review of Hyland, K. & G. Diani, eds (2009) Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics, Walsh, Michael (ed.), pp. 348–351 | Review