TY - BOOK AU - Mori,Junko AU - Ohta,Amy Snyder TI - Japanese applied linguistics: discourse and social perspectives SN - 0826489613 AV - PL524.75 J34 2008 U1 - 495.68 22 PY - 2008///] CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Japanese language KW - Social aspects KW - Applied linguistics KW - Japan KW - Sociolinguistics N1 - 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 ER -