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Direct linkMeadows, Bryan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
Taking a sociocultural perspective, this study addresses the interface between language learners and novel communities of practice. The study combines the social learning theory of communities of practice with social constructivist treatments of nation-states as imagined communities in order to consider "imagined national communities of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Discourse Analysis
Saft, Scott; Ohara, Yumiko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2009
This article describes how Japanese TV programs adopting a consultation framework construct different realities for women and men concerning a specific social phenomenon, namely adultery. To do so, two perspectives, the theory of metaphor promoted by George Lakoff and membership category analysis, are combined toward a discursive analysis which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Language Usage, Television
