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| Title | Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities |
| Body | Title: Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities Subtitle: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates http://www.erlbaum.com/ Author: Yasuko Kanno, University of Washington Hardback: ISBN: 0805841539, Pages: 200, Price: U.S. $: 45.00 Paperback: ISBN: 0805841547, Pages: 200, Price: U.S. $: 18.50 Abstract: This book examines the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. As adolescents, these students were polarized toward one language and culture over the other, but through a period of difficult readjustment in Japan they became increasingly more sophisticated in negotiating their identities and more appreciative of their hybrid selves. Kanno analyzes how educational institutions both in their host and home countries, societal recognition or devaluation of bilingualism, and the students' own maturation contributed to shaping and transforming their identities over time. Using narrative inquiry and communities of practice as a theoretical framework, she argues that it is possible for bilingual individuals to learn to strike a balance between two languages and cultures. Barker, S. (6 May 2004). Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Kanno. Linguist List. linguist@linguistlist.org (13 May 2004). |
| Source | Yasuko Kanno |
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