Publications

Publication details [#41475]

Armour, William S. 2001. 'This Guy is Japanese Stuck in a White Man's Body': A Discussion of Meaning Making, Identity Slippage, and Cross-cultural Adaptation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 22 (1) : 1–18.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | foreign language acquisition

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores to what extent the ability to make meaning in Japanese as a foreign language activates cross-cultural adaptation and examines the 'identity slippage' phenomenon.