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Socializing Identities Through Speech Style - 9781847691002

Un libro in lingua di Cook Haruko Minegishi edito da Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2008

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Drawing on Och's two-step model of indexical relations, Cook (East Asian languages and literatures, U. of Hawaii, Manoa) examines how learners of Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) and their host family members express their identities through style shifts between use of the polite speech-level marker, the masu form, and non-honorific plain form during family dinnertime conversations. The study analyzes data from 25 dinnertime conversations--videotaped and audiotaped simultaneously--of nine JFL learners, three British and six Americans, ranging from novice to advanced proficiency levels, enrolled in a year-in-Japan program in Tokyo-area universities. The research explores how host family members teach learners language socialization, both implicitly and explicitly, as evidenced by the shifting use of the masu form to index different social situations. It demonstrates the positive impact of study abroad experiences on the development of second language pragmatics. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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