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

ISBN-13: 9781138104631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 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)