Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan: The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women�s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One

ISBN-13: 9780367890735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Claire Maree; Kaori Okano

Opis

This book is drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled ‘Thirty Years of Talk.’ Through ethnographic interviews and data on the language of working class women in Kobe, this study sketches the transitions in these women's lives and how their language use, discourse and identities change in specific sociocultural contexts

Spis treści

 1. Phase One of the Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019: Kanako 1989 and 2000 (Kaori Okano and Claire Maree)  2. Kanako’s World 1989-2000: Growing Up Working Class and Shifting Identities (Kaori Okano)  3. Dialect and Discourse Markers Use: From Adolescence into Adulthood (Lidia Tanaka)  4. ‘Give Me A Break Already’: Gender, Laughter and the Interviewed-Self (Claire Maree)  5. Rapport and Discourse Transformation in Ethnographic Interview (Ikuko Nakane)  6. Evolving Questions, Questioning and Affiliation in Ongoing Ethnographic Interviews (Shimako Iwasaki)  7. Epilogue: Shifting Identities, Over the Years, and Within Ethnographic Interviews (Claire Maree and Kaori Okano)

O autorze

Claire MAREE is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the Asia institute, University of Melbourne. Her research spans the areas of critical language studies, gender/sexuality and language studies, media studies and queer studies. Major publications include ‘Onē-kotoba’ Ron (On ‘Onē-kotoba [language of queens]’) (Seidosha, 2013); Hatsuwasha no gengo sotoratejī toshite no negoshiēshon kōi (Negotiation as a Linguistic Strategy of Speakers) (Hituzi Shobo, 2007). Claire has published chapters in collected volumes on Japanese language and gender, pragmatics, and queer studies. She contributes articles to journals such as The Asia-Pacific Journal, Media international Australia, Nihon Joseigakkai-shi, Women's Studies, intersections, Gendai Shisō and Sexualities.

Kaori OKANO is Professor in Asian Studies/Japanese at La Trobe University. She researches in the field of the sociology and anthropology of inequality and education in Japan and East Asia, including multiculturalism, indigenous education, ethnography of growing up, and local activism (e.g., NPOs and NGOs). Her key publications include Rethinking Japanese Studies (with Sugimoto, Y., 2017), Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan (2016, Routledge), Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan (co-ed. 2011, Routledge),) Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood (2009), Education in Contemporary Japan (with M. Tsuchiya, CUP, 1999) and School to Work Transition in Japan (1993).