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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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
Shifting communication practices in Japanese courtrooms Journal Article
In: Melbourne Asia Review, vol. 2, pp. 1-8., 2021.
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abstract = {Japanese criminal trials have shifted towards a more adversarial orientation following major law reform implemented over the past 20 years. Lawyers have had to adapt to the new context of professional communication with lay judges, who sit with professional judges in some trials rather than taking the role of citizen juries. For the defence and prosecution, a need to ‘win the battle’ with convincing courtroom performance and communication strategies have posed challenges, while judges still have the power to take an investigative stance to pursue the truth. This article explores how the shift towards an adversarial orientation manifests itself in the courtroom, and discusses the dilemma over the need for courtroom performance focused on spoken language and the trust in written communication that traditionally dominated the criminal justice process.
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Japanese criminal trials have shifted towards a more adversarial orientation following major law reform implemented over the past 20 years. Lawyers have had to adapt to the new context of professional communication with lay judges, who sit with professional judges in some trials rather than taking the role of citizen juries. For the defence and prosecution, a need to ‘win the battle’ with convincing courtroom performance and communication strategies have posed challenges, while judges still have the power to take an investigative stance to pursue the truth. This article explores how the shift towards an adversarial orientation manifests itself in the courtroom, and discusses the dilemma over the need for courtroom performance focused on spoken language and the trust in written communication that traditionally dominated the criminal justice process.
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, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 119-143, 2021.
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2020
Nakane, Ikuko
Understanding Self, Others, and the World in a Multilingual World: Learning Through Japanese Journal Article
In: Japanese as Lingua Franca Rethinking Japanese Language Education for Multilingual and Multicultural Coexistence, vol. 1, pp. 19-42, 2020, ISBN: 9784750350516.
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The environment surrounding Japanese language education is becoming multilingual at home and abroad. Introducing the concept of "Japanese as a lingua franca", this article'Leaning to make sense of self, others and the world in a multilingual world'is a study of how learners study Japanese as a second language.
Nakane, Ikuko
Courtroom Discourse of the ‘Hybrid’ Japanese Criminal Justice System Journal Article
In: Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 110-135, 2020.
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abstract = {In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel‘s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge‘s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit the truth.‘This paper aims to explore the discourse of Japanese criminal trials, drawing on an ethnographic study of communication in courtroom settings in Japan. The paper specifically focuses on how the hybridity ofadversarial and inquisitorial orientations to the justice process are realized in courtroom discourse. Drawing on courtroom observation notes, lawyer interviews and other relevant materials as data, I analyze Japan‘s ̳hybrid‘ legal system through observing its trial genre structure, narrative construction processes and courtroom discourse strategies.},
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In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel‘s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge‘s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit the truth.‘This paper aims to explore the discourse of Japanese criminal trials, drawing on an ethnographic study of communication in courtroom settings in Japan. The paper specifically focuses on how the hybridity ofadversarial and inquisitorial orientations to the justice process are realized in courtroom discourse. Drawing on courtroom observation notes, lawyer interviews and other relevant materials as data, I analyze Japan‘s ̳hybrid‘ legal system through observing its trial genre structure, narrative construction processes and courtroom discourse strategies.
Nakane, Ikuko
Narrative construction in interpreted police interviews Book Chapter
In: Mason, Marianne; Rock, Frances (Ed.): Chapter The Discourse of Police Interviews, pp. 179-199, University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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2019
Nakane, Ikuko; Mizuno, Makiko
Judgments on Court Interpreting in Japan: Ideologies and Practice Journal Article
In: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law , vol. 32, pp. 773–793, 2019.
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Maree, Claire; Takagi, Chie; Okano, Kaori; Iwasaki, Shimako; Tanaka, Lidia; Nakane, Ikuko
Speech Styles in longitudinal interviews with women from the Kobe area--language changes and life stage （継続的インタビューデータにみる神戸出身女性話者のスピーチスタイル――ことばの経年変化とライフステージ――） Journal Article
In: Studies in Dialect (方言研究）, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 267-293, 2019.
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Studies in Dialects 5. ISBN: 978-4-89476-990-8
2018
Nakane, Ikuko
Rapport and discourse transformation in ethnographic interviews Book Chapter
In: Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781315102122.
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This chapter explores Kanako’s 1989 and 2000 interviews by adopting an approach focusing on rapport, in which diachronic analysis of the data is embedded in the interview participants’ negotiation of identity and relationship in discourse. Stylistic features of the interview discourse such as regional variation, interactional particles, clause-final forms, as well as interaction dynamics are analyzed, while the life experiences of Kanako and the interview settings, are also considered. The analysis reveals a complex and nuanced negotiation of rapport between the researcher and Kanako as their social identities and shared aspects of life go through transformation over a decade.
2014
Tokumaru, Satoko; Thomson, Chihiro; Nakane, Ikuko
Negotiation of power and solidarity in email: The case of students learning Japanese as a foreign language and their facilitators Journal Article
In: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, vol. 24, 2014.
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abstract = {The issue of e-politeness has been attracting increasing attention in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. This article examines how students of Japanese as a foreign language in Australia negotiated power and solidarity in their email correspondence with ‘facilitators’ in Japan who provided support in essay writing tasks. Their relationships, which were neither completely status-unequal nor status-equal, offer a unique social context for an examination of politeness. The study examines whether and how power and solidarity shifted over the 12 weeks of email exchanges. The results show varying levels of rapport and orientations to politeness developing over time, as well as evidence of students applying implicit input from the facilitators’ email messages. The article also considers the impacts, on the politeness phenomena in the data, of students’ cultural backgrounds and prior exposure to casual Japanese. The findings are discussed in relation to the question of ‘appropriateness’ in fostering foreign language learner ability to negotiate power and solidarity in intercultural communication.
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The issue of e-politeness has been attracting increasing attention in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. This article examines how students of Japanese as a foreign language in Australia negotiated power and solidarity in their email correspondence with ‘facilitators’ in Japan who provided support in essay writing tasks. Their relationships, which were neither completely status-unequal nor status-equal, offer a unique social context for an examination of politeness. The study examines whether and how power and solidarity shifted over the 12 weeks of email exchanges. The results show varying levels of rapport and orientations to politeness developing over time, as well as evidence of students applying implicit input from the facilitators’ email messages. The article also considers the impacts, on the politeness phenomena in the data, of students’ cultural backgrounds and prior exposure to casual Japanese. The findings are discussed in relation to the question of ‘appropriateness’ in fostering foreign language learner ability to negotiate power and solidarity in intercultural communication.
2007
Nakane, Ikuko
Silence in intercultural communication: Perceptions and performance Bachelor Thesis
2007.
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How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological and fundamental levels of social organization individual, situational and sociocultural-the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro-and micro-ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions, the stereotypes of the'silent East'is reconsidered, and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.
2006
Nakane, Ikuko
Silence and politeness in intercultural communication in university seminars Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 1811-1835, 2006.
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