Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia.

Maki Yoshida is a Lecturer in Global and Language Studies at RMIT University. Her research explores the relationship between social structure, language and (gender) ideologies. It examines how the intersectionality of social categories and discursive power relations impinge on individual speakers' negotiation of language and identities.

1 Introduction 2 Gendered Japanese, Gender Identities and Gender Ideologies: Learning Japanese in the Time of Globalisation and Accelerated Unequal Power Relations 3 JAL Participants' Negotiation of Gendered Language and Gender Identities 4 Language and Gender Ideologies and 'Learners of Japanese' 5 JAL Participants' Social Identities and Discursive Power Relations-Intersections of 'Nativeness', 'Gender', 'Class', 'Age' and 'Race' 6 Conclusion Appendix 1: Details of pre-recorded interaction Appendix 2: Questions for JAL participants' diary entry Appendix 3: Template of questionnaire Appendix 4: Gendered linguistic features used as stimuli in one-on-one semi-structured interviews Appendix 5: Conventions employed for the transcriptions in the current study