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ERIC Number: EJ1053067
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Mar
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-0167-8507
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"Cool" English: Stylized Native-Speaker English in Japanese Television Shows
Furukawa, Gavin
Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, v34 n2 p265-291 Mar 2015
This article analyzes stylized pronunciations of English by Japanese speakers on televised variety shows in Japan. Research on style and mocking has done much to reveal how linguistic forms are utilized in interaction as resources of identity construction that can oftentimes subvert hegemonic discourse (Chun 2004). Within this research area, scholars have primarily explored language among monolingual speakers of English, and immigrant or second generation L2 English multilinguals who have frequent contact with speakers of other languages (Rampton 1995; Chun 2009). What has not been examined is the use of stylized languages in contexts where English is considered a foreign language, such as Japan. In this article, I investigate Stylized native-speaker English (NSE), or English spoken with a highly enunciated hyper-L1 accent, which indexes a degree of social "cool". I examine the ways in which NSE is stylized in variety shows through an analysis of both oral discourse and textual commentary (telop) produced on the screen for viewers. The article argues that these forms of stylization are used as resources in the social construction of cool identities and demonstrates how the indexical relationship between social cool and Stylized NSE works bi-directionally.
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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