Thirty Years of Talk: A Panel Study of Kobe Women's Interview Discourse

Grant number: DP170102598 | Funding period: 2017 - 2021

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Abstract

This project aims to investigate women’s life transitions and language use over 30 years. Analysis of changes to the languages, societies and cultures of Asia is essential to Australia’s Asia literacy. This project will analyse shifts and changes in women’s language, discourse and identities by examining ethnographic data of a longitudinal research project into working-class women’s life trajectories in Kobe, Japan. The project will research language, gender, class and mobility in Japan in the transition from young adulthood to middle adulthood. Understanding how life transitions and identities shape ways of speaking Japanese is expected to contribute to sociocultural understandings, and inf..

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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――）

Claire Maree, Chie Takagi, Kaori Okano, Shimako Iwasaki, Lidia Tanaka, Ikuko Nakane

2019-01-01

ISBN 978-4-89476-990-8

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'Give me a break already': Gender, laughter and the interviewed-self

C Maree

2018-02-20

This chapter examines the ways in which participants negotiate expectations and norms in two ethnographic interviews recorded 11 y..

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Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan: The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One

C Maree, K Okano

2018-01-01

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled ‘Thirty Years of Talk.’ F..

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Epilogue: Shifting Identities over the years and within ethnographic interviews

Claire Maree, Kaori Okano

2018-01-01

Drawing on the empirical findings of the preceding chapters in combination, this chapter explores how the passage of time influenc..

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Phase one of the Longitudinal study of Kobe women's ethnographic interviews 1989-2019: Kanako 1989 and 2000

K Okano, C Maree

2018-01-01

This chapter introduces the first phase of the Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989–2019, a real-time i..

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Rapport and discourse transformation in ethnographic interviews

I Nakane

2018-01-01

This chapter explores Kanako’s 1989 and 2000 interviews by adopting an approach focusing on rapport, in which diachronic analysis ..