Publications

Publication details [#48852]

Itakura, Hiroko. 2008. Attitudes Towards Masculine Japanese Speech in Multilingual Professional Contexts of Hong Kong: Gender, Identity, and Native-Speaker Status. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (6) : 67–482.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | identity negotiation | language attitude | professional language | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores attitudes towards the use of masculine Japanese among foreign Hong Kong professionals in their intercultural work settings, focusing in particular on identity considerations.