Thursday, March 24 06pm
403 Kent Hall
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
Presented by Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Junko Mori, Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics
This presentation will review recent sociolinguistic studies on ideologies and realities of Standard Japanese and dialects, gendered linguistic forms, and other kinds of stereotyped forms; it will also produce findings from applied linguistics regarding second language speakers’ accounts of their experience of negotiating their identities in Japanese. taken as a whole, these studies provide an opportunity to consider the range of approaches taken by different second language speakers as they navigate co-existing, and sometimes competing, ideologies of Japanese language and its speakers.
This lecture is free and open to the public! Visit www.keenecenter.org for more information.