36.2780, Books: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Takeuchi (2025)

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Subject: 36.2780, Books: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Takeuchi (2025)

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Date: 16-Sep-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Takeuchi (2025)


Title: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy
Subtitle: Native Speaker Bias in Japan
Series Title: Multilingual Matters
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800414631

Author(s): Jae DiBello Takeuchi

Pbk ISBN 9781800414631 £29.95 / US$39.95 / €34.95

Abstract:

Now available in paperback!
This book examines dilemmas faced by second language (L2) Japanese
speakers as a result of persistent challenges to their legitimacy as
speakers of Japanese. Based on an ethnographic interview study with
L2-Japanese speakers and their L1-Japanese-speaking friends,
co-workers and significant others, the book examines ideologies linked
to three core speech styles of Japanese – keigo or polite language,
gendered language and regional dialects – to show how such ideologies
impact L2-Japanese speakers. The author demonstrates that speaker
legitimacy is often tenuous for L2 speakers and argues that, despite
increasing numbers of Japanese-speaking foreign residents in Japan,
native speaker bias remains a persistent issue for L2-Japanese
speakers living and working in Japan. This book extends the discussion
of native speaker bias beyond educational contexts, and in the process
reveals tensions between how L2 speakers aspire to speak and how L1
speakers expect them to speak.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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