1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910274359003321

Titolo

Dizionario dell'Occidente medievale : temi e percorsi / a cura di Jacques Le Goff e Jean-Claude Schmitt ; Edizione italiana e bibliografie ragionate a cura di Giuseppe Sergi ; con la collaborazione di Patrizia Cancian, Luigi Provero e Massimo Vallerani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, 2011

ISBN

978-88-06-20758-8

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 24 cm

Collana

Piccola Biblioteca ; 544

Disciplina

940.103

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

COLLEZ. 1955 (544)I

COLLEZ. 1955 (544)II

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456982703321

Autore

Simon-Maeda Andrea

Titolo

Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese : An Autoethnographic Account / / Andrea Simon-Maeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-14773-4

9786613147738

1-84769-362-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Second Language Acquisition

Disciplina

495.6/8071

Soggetti

Japanese language - Study and teaching

Second language acquisition - Study and teaching

Languages & Literatures

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Postmodern Basis of Autoethnography -- Chapter 2. Narrative Inquiry in SLA and Applied Linguistics -- Chapter 3. In the Beginning: Situating the Story -- Chapter 4. In the Middle: Love, Marriage, Family -- Chapter 5. Career Discourse(s) -- Chapter 6. Where I Am Now: Two Days in the Life of an Expatriate -- Appendix 1: Foreign population -- Appendix 2: Newspaper article -- Appendix 3: Typical examples of Mayor Kawamura’s ‘Nagoya dialect’ -- Appendix 4: Examples of Japanese emoticons -- Appendix 5: Manual for high school visits -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 –



the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary approaches to examining language acquisition, and readers are presented with a highly convincing case for using autoethnography to better understand sociolinguistic complexities that are unamenable to quantification of isolated variables. The comprehensive literature review and wide ranging references provide a valuable source of information for researchers, educators, and graduate students concerned with current issues in SLA/applied linguistics, bi/multilingualism, and Japanese as a second language.