Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities : Gender, Race and Native Speaker Ideology in Learning Japanese as an Additional Language

Maki Yoshida

ISBN 10: 1032739266 / ISBN 13: 9781032739267

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul 2026, 2026

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Neuware - This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia. It demonstrates that while participants are familiar with gendered Japanese as linguistic resources, their self- positioned and ascribed 'learnersness', 'nonnative-speakerness' and 'non- Japaneseness' both inside and outside classroom contexts greatly impact the targeted negotiations. It argues that these ascribed social identities encourage participants to adopt 'correct' (gendered) Japanese; however, what exactly this 'correctness' means differs for each JAL participant, depending on their other reflective and perceived social identities-such as gender, age, class, race and English 'native- speakerness'.This book draws on the conclusions on the implications of discourses and practices concerning native- speaker status, gender and race in Japanese language education. While the initial focus is on gendered Japanese and gender identity, this book subsequently expands that the participants' negotiation of gendered Japanese and gender identity is complicatedly intertwined with negotiations of other social identities such as native- speaker status, race and age, with native-speaker status saliently affecting the way they position themselves and are positioned by their interlocutors. This book analyses the participants' language resources, spoken and/ or written Japanese interactions and one-on-one and focus- group interviews and presents easily understood findings for readers who are interested in SLA, Japanese, language and/ or identity studies.This is the first book to holistically examine Australia- based tertiary students' Japanese language learning experience and Japanese interactions with regards to (gendered) language, identities and discursive power relations in a global and multilingual world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities : Gender, Race and Native Speaker Ideology in Learning Japanese as an Additional Language
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032739266
• ISBN 13: 9781032739267
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 11D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 300 grams

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Synopsis

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia. It demonstrates that while participants are familiar with gendered Japanese as linguistic resources, their self- positioned and ascribed ‘learnersness’, ‘nonnative-speakerness’ and ‘non- Japaneseness’ both inside and outside classroom contexts greatly impact the targeted negotiations. It argues that these ascribed social identities encourage participants to adopt ‘correct’ (gendered) Japanese; however, what exactly this ‘correctness’ means differs for each JAL participant, depending on their other reflective and perceived social identities―such as gender, age, class, race and English ‘native- speakerness’.

This book draws on the conclusions on the implications of discourses and practices concerning native- speaker status, gender and race in Japanese language education. While the initial focus is on gendered Japanese and gender identity, this book subsequently expands that the participants’ negotiation of gendered Japanese and gender identity is complicatedly intertwined with negotiations of other social identities such as native- speaker status, race and age, with native-speaker status saliently affecting the way they position themselves and are positioned by their interlocutors. This book analyses the participants’ language resources, spoken and/ or written Japanese interactions and one-on-one and focus- group interviews and presents easily understood findings for readers who are interested in SLA, Japanese, language and/ or identity studies.

This is the first book to holistically examine Australia- based tertiary students’ Japanese language learning experience and Japanese interactions with regards to (gendered) language, identities and discursive power relations in a global and multilingual world.

About the Author

Maki Yoshida is a Lecturer in Global and Language Studies at RMIT University. Her research explores the relationship between social structure, language and (gender) ideologies. It examines how the intersectionality of social categories and discursive power relations impinge on individual speakers’ negotiation of language and identities.