The unexpected use of Osaka dialect in the 2013 film Like Father, Like Son directed by
Hirokazu Kore'eda, presents an opportunity to scrutinise its role in indexing masculinity …

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 …

In the late 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic recession combined with an
unrelenting stagnated birth rate; Japanese people and government officials called for men to …

This paper investigates representations of castrated male characters in Chinese martial arts
films. In my data, without exception, the castrated kungfu practitioners are villainous …

This article uses qualitative interview data to analyse how young Japanese men with
international experience spoke about (un) desirable masculine identities in relation to their …

This article reflects on a transdisciplinary curricular project in a Japanese language course
that employs audio–visual subtitling to promote students' critical literacies in languages …

This study demonstrates that two types of language ideologies (linguistic nationalism and
feminine language normativity) influence how Japanese contemporary novels represent non …

Previous work on the Osaka dialect (OD) collectively suggests that this western regional
variant of Japanese is associated with informality, masculinity, and affective fatherhood …

This study contextualizes the explosive valorization and commodification of dialect in Japan
since the 1980s, known as the “dialect boom”, in terms of Japanese social and economic …

Identities are constructed using various tools, both linguistic and non-linguistic. The purpose
of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between ideologies (images …