03602nam 2200601Ia 450 991109129700332120260415135139.01-283-14773-497866131477381-84769-362-810.21832/9781847693624(CKB)2550000000037119(EBL)837786(SSID)ssj0000530117(PQKBManifestationID)12250809(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530117(PQKBWorkID)10561164(PQKB)10054996(DE-B1597)513589(OCoLC)750183122(DE-B1597)9781847693624(MiAaPQ)EBC837786(EXLCZ)99255000000003711920110107d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeing and becoming a speaker of Japanese an autoethnographic account /Andrea Simon-Maeda1st ed.Bristol ;Buffalo Multilingual Matters20111 online resource (170 p.)Second language acquisitionDescription based upon print version of record.1-84769-361-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England)Japanese languageStudy and teachingSecond language acquisitionStudy and teachingJapanese languageStudy and teaching.Second language acquisitionStudy and teaching.495.6/8071Simon-Maeda Andrea1951-1954845MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911091297003321Being and becoming a speaker of Japanese4713872UNINA