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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Simon-Maeda Andrea"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese : An Autoethnographic Account / / Andrea Simon-Maeda"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-283-14773-4"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613147738"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-84769-362-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (170 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Second Language Acquisition"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"495.6/8071"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Japanese language - Study and teaching"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Second language acquisition - Study and teaching"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Languages & Literatures"]
[{"$nulls":4},"East Asian Languages & Literatures"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Postmodern Basis of Autoethnography -- Chapter 2. Narrative Inquiry in SLA and Applied Linguistics -- Chapter 3. In the Beginning: Situating the Story -- Chapter 4. In the Middle: Love, Marriage, Family -- Chapter 5. Career Discourse(s) -- Chapter 6. Where I Am Now: Two Days in the Life of an Expatriate -- Appendix 1: Foreign population -- Appendix 2: Newspaper article -- Appendix 3: Typical examples of Mayor Kawamura’s ‘Nagoya dialect’ -- Appendix 4: Examples of Japanese emoticons -- Appendix 5: Manual for high school visits -- References -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 – the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the recent surge in postmodernist, interdisciplinary "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]