Japanese applied linguistics : discourse and social perspectives / edited by Junko Mori and Amy Snyder Ohta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Junko Mori and Amy Snyder Ohta -- I. Re-examination of language in action -- 1. Conversation and grammar: Approaching so-called conditionals in Japanese / Tsuyoshi Ono and Kimberly Jones -- 2. Negotiating agreement and disagreement in Japanese: An analysis of designedly ambiguous turn completion points / Junko Mori and Kanae Nakamura -- 3. Construction of speech styles: The case of the Japanese naked plain form / Haruko Minegishi Cook -- II. Ideologies, diversities, and identities -- 4. Keigo ideology / Patricia J. Wetzel -- 5. The use of "regional" and "standard" Japanese in conversations: A case study from Osaka / Shigeko Okamoto -- 6. When the coach is a woman: The situational meanings of so-called masculine directives in a Japanese boxing gym / Misao Okada -- 7. Discursive practices and changing identities in elderly Japanese women / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- III. Japanese as an additional language -- 8. Laughter and second language acquisition: A study of Japanese foreign language classes / Amy Snyder Ohta -- 9. Making inquiries: Toiawase strategies by Japanese L1 and L2 callers to Japanese educational institutions / Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura -- 10. Transnationalism / imagined communities, and language minority education in Japan, Yasuko Kanno -- IV. Critical reflection on language pedagogy -- 11. Learner competence as a resource in the Japanese as a foreign language classroom: Issues in oral assessment / Dina Rudolph Yoshimi -- 12. Critical approaches to teaching Japanese language and culture / Ryuko Kubota.

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