Being and Becoming a Speaker of Japanese : : An Autoethnographic Account /

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

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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 throug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Simon-Maeda, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Postmodern Basis of Autoethnography
  • Chapter 2. Narrative Inquiry in SLA and Applied Linguistics
  • Part 2
  • 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

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