Ikuko Nakane
2021
Nakane, Ikuko; Okano, Kaori; Maree, Claire; Takagi, Chie; Tanaka, Lidia; Iwasaki, Shimako
Varying orientations to sharing life stories: A diachronic study of Japanese women's discourse Journal Article
In: Language in Society, pp. 1 - 26, 2021.
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title = {Varying orientations to sharing life stories: A diachronic study of Japanese women's discourse},
author = {Ikuko Nakane and Kaori Okano and Claire Maree and Chie Takagi and Lidia Tanaka and Shimako Iwasaki},
doi = {10.1017/S0047404521000415},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-06-28},
urldate = {2021-06-28},
journal = {Language in Society},
pages = {1 - 26},
abstract = {Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals’ language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers’ stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally from the same area in western Japan, the same high school, and similar socio-economic background, conducted by a single researcher eleven years apart. The chronological and inter-participant comparisons reveal a complex pattern of stylistic practice and stance taking as the women share stories about career, family and relationships with the researcher. The study also discusses audience design in language variation and explores how the participants utilise their discursive repertoires in their interaction with the researcher, whose background is significantly divergent from theirs. (Language across the lifespan, stylistic practice, Japanese).},
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Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals’ language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers’ stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally from the same area in western Japan, the same high school, and similar socio-economic background, conducted by a single researcher eleven years apart. The chronological and inter-participant comparisons reveal a complex pattern of stylistic practice and stance taking as the women share stories about career, family and relationships with the researcher. The study also discusses audience design in language variation and explores how the participants utilise their discursive repertoires in their interaction with the researcher, whose background is significantly divergent from theirs. (Language across the lifespan, stylistic practice, Japanese).
Nakane, Ikuko; Tanaka, Lidia; Okano, Kaori; Maree, Claire; Iwasaki, Shimako; Takagi, Chie
Japanese Women’s Speech through Life‐Transitions (1989‐2000): An Analysis of Youth Language Features Journal Article
In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31 (1), pp. 119-143, 2021.
@article{Nakane2021b,
title = {Japanese Women’s Speech through Life‐Transitions (1989‐2000): An Analysis of Youth Language Features},
author = {Ikuko Nakane and Lidia Tanaka and Kaori Okano and Claire Maree and Shimako Iwasaki and Chie Takagi},
doi = {10.1111/jola.12302},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-05-20},
urldate = {2021-05-20},
journal = {Journal of Linguistic Anthropology},
volume = {31},
number = {1},
pages = {119-143},
abstract = {This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end‐rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast ethnographic information helps us to understand their persona style (Eckert 2008), and to have an insight into their linguistic capital (Bourdieu and Boltanski 1978, Woolard 2008).},
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pubstate = {published},
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This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end‐rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast ethnographic information helps us to understand their persona style (Eckert 2008), and to have an insight into their linguistic capital (Bourdieu and Boltanski 1978, Woolard 2008).