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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:24:57
From: Akihiro Saito [akisaito at hi-tech.ac.jp]
Subject: The Construction of Language Attitudes, English(es), and Identities in Written Accounts of Japanese Youths

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Institution: University of Southern Queensland 
Program: Doctor of Philosophy 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2013 

Author: Akihiro Saito

Dissertation Title: The Construction of Language Attitudes, English(es), and
Identities in Written Accounts of Japanese Youths 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Shirley O'Neill
Warren Midgley

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation reports a study that explored the discursive construction
of language attitudes, Englishes, and language learners' identities in
written discourses. The data was elicited from a culturally amenable
writing mode called shoronbun (expository type essay) written by Japanese
college students. An analysis of their accounts revealed a range of
diverse, at times contested, meanings and images of the global language,
English. Identified in the construction of these images were attitudes as
evaluative practices and meticulous discursive moves to which the
participants resorted in pursuit of a tenable argumentative position in
concord with one's moral order.






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