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{"title":"The Effects of Prior Language Knowledge in Japanese Acquisition as a Foreign Language: The Case of the Japanese Noun Modifier No","authors":"S. Chan","doi":"10.21159/nv.06.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/nv.06.02","url":null,"abstract":"Second/foreign language learners inevitably make errors. One recognized type of error is the developmental error, which all learners are considered to produce in the process of their language development. Another type of error is thought to be due to language transfer (LT) in which one's prior language (L1) knowledge either helps or interferes with the second language (L2) acquisition. When it interferes, it is called negative transfer (-LT). This phenomenon has been studied in the context of Japanese language acquisition. This paper focuses on the acquisition of “の” (no), a Japanese noun modifier, by Chinese, Korean and English L1 learners. Following Okuno (2005), these learners were tested in their acquisition of “no” in both instantaneous production and production without time restrictions. Given that the Chinese language contains a corresponding noun modifier \"的” (de), the results showed a significant -LT in the Chinese L1 group. This and other results are discussed in the light of language transfer and developmental errors.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"27-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83540450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Limits of Interdependence: Cooperation and Conflict in Sino-Japanese Relations","authors":"Adam Eldridge","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.03","url":null,"abstract":"Since the introduction of Deng Xiaoping’s Open Door policy in 1979, the value and complexity of Sino-Japanese economic ties have grown exponentially. However, even as economic ties have developed, security relations have deteriorated as perceptions of a ‘China threat’ and a ‘re-militarised Japan’ have emerged in Tokyo and Beijing. !e simultaneous existence of these trends challenges international relations theory. Economic interdependence theories expect that the development of economic relations reduces the role of security in bilateral relations. Conversely, neorealist theories posit that, given the preeminence of national security, a perception of threat will cool economic relations. Sino-Japanese economic relations have demonstrable bilateral bene\"ts. Additionally, economic relations have created interest groups invested in maintaining good relations. !ese groups have successfully managed economic friction points and integrated bilateral trade. However, economic interdependence seems not to translate to the security calculus con\"rming neorealism’s contention that national security is preeminent. In particular, Japan’s development of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) illustrates the insigni\"cance of economic ties in security planning. !at said, it is equally true that perceptions of threat appear to have little in#uence on bilateral economic interdependence. !erefore, Sino-Japanese relations are best described by applying interdependence and neorealist theories in a complementary approach.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"35 1","pages":"51-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87505616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gairaigo in Japanese foreign language learning: a tool for native English speakers?","authors":"Niamh Champ","doi":"10.21159/NV.06.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.06.05","url":null,"abstract":"ere is considerable academic literature on the usefulness of loanwords to Foreign Language (FL) learners. !is literature, based on empirical studies conducted among learners of various language backgrounds and learning various target languages, indicates that cognates shared by the \"rst language (L1) of the learner and the target language are generally a positive learning resource in Foreign Language Learning (FLL) contexts. !is study extends the current literature by its examination of the speci\"c context of English speakers learning Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL). It takes both qualitative and quantitative approaches to the investigation of teaching practices related to the use of loanwords borrowed from English into Japanese, known as gairaigo. A quantitative analysis of three series of JFL textbooks reveals that gairaigo nouns are used in introductory texts at an unrepresentatively high proportion. While there is currently no empirical basis for this strategy, qualitative interviews with teachers give some support to the strategy of using gairaigo in preference to words of Japanese origin in introductory courses to assist learner comprehension and production. !is study identi\"es a number of variables driving teachers’ use of gairaigo that have so far not been articulated in the literature.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"117-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85016017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conversational Analysis of Boke-tsukkomi Exchange in Japanese Comedy","authors":"Hideo Tsutsumi","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.07","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses and discusses what Japanese comical exchange called boke-tsukkomi is like and how it draws laughter. Conversation analysis and incongruity resolution are used as methods for the examination of the boke-tsukkomi examples. This paper will lend itself to further research on the dyadic exchange in the cross cultural context.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"102 1","pages":"147-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77727621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing the irogonomi: Sexual politics, Heian-style","authors":"A. Sprague","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.03","url":null,"abstract":"Promiscuous “connoisseurs of love” (irogonomi) such as the fictional Genji and the semi-legendary Ariwara no Narihira have come to define popular perception of Heian period sexual politics; that is, their names have become shorthand for male privilege over women. In this article I will complicate established ideas regarding male promiscuity and privilege in the Heian period through an examination of Tales of Ise, Tale of Lady Ochikubo and Tale of Genji. I argue that, although women’s status as linchpins in the practice of “marriage politics” rarely translated into women’s individual empowerment, men’s reliance on marriage politics placed restrictions on men’s sexuality in ways that are rarely acknowledged by modern scholarship.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"64-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76680452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Girls are dancin\": shōjo culture and feminism in contemporary Japanese art","authors":"Emily Wakeling","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.06","url":null,"abstract":"This thesis identifies a growing trend in the use of the shojo girl motif in contemporary Japanese art and positions it as an emerging new feminist expression inspired by locally determined gender-transgression. Japan’s current output of artists, exhibitions and art publications show that the Japanese girl—the shojo— is a ubiquitous presence. Shojo is an increasingly common point of figurative reference for contemporary Japanese artists, a complex cultural construct, and a wide-spread motif in present-day Japanese culture. The shojo is conveying a strong female youth culture that fosters anti-hegemonic gender subjectivities amid a context of social and moral panic. This thesis departs from Japanese feminine stereotypes to pay particular interest to an emerging wave of figurative contemporary art practices in which the figure of the shojo is utilised for a new generation of feminist critique. Aoshima Chiho, Kunikata Mahomi, Miyashita Maki, Takano Aya, Sawada Tomoko and Yanagi Miwa are contemporary artists whose works feature representations of Japanese girls to negate stereotypes and alternately foreground the female subjectivities found in shojo culture. Through this gesture, the artists propose ways in which the shojo has, and can, transgress the boundaries of gender hegemony within contemporary Japanese society. The theoretical framework for this thesis explores an overlap in the transgressive modes of local Japanese with global culture where it concerns new feminist expression in contemporary art. This expanding theoretical framework for contemporary feminist art finds its context in art practice in the 2007 \"Global feminisms\" exhibition which included Japanese art. Contemporary art is defined in this thesis as a cultural and conceptual break with Modernism’s Western centric values. While feminist art and its scholarship has been in many respects at the fore of this break from Modernist values, it was not until the past two decades that feminist art found synergy with other identity politics. As a result, newer feminist art has produced new ways of understanding gender politics. In Japan, the figure of the shojo is a vehicle for these new ideas. In working at the intersection of the three themes of shojo, contemporary Japanese art and contemporary feminism, this thesis will argue the importance of this figure to feminist expression in contemporary Japanese art, and global feminism more generally.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"94 1","pages":"130-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85249464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of study abroad on Japanese language learners’ social networks","authors":"R. Campbell","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.02","url":null,"abstract":"Study abroad is commonly believed to be an ideal environment for second language acquisition to take place, due to the increased opportunities for interaction with native speakers that it is considered to offer. However, several studies have challenged these beliefs, finding that study abroad students were disappointed with the degree of out-ofclass interaction they had with native speakers. It is therefore important to gain an understanding of the study abroad context and the factors that promote and constrain opportunities for second language (L2) interaction. This paper examines the complexities behind six Japanese language learners’ interaction and social relationships with native speakers through analysis of their social networks before, during, and after a study abroad period in Japan. It also compares the networks that were formed in an urban and a regional setting in Australia. The paper concludes with a discussion of the benefits of study abroad and offers several implications for foreign language teaching and study abroad program development.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"25-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88813430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gendered Characteristics of Female Leaners' Conversational Japanese","authors":"M. Yoshida","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.05","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines gendered characteristics in four female Japanese language learners’ discourse practices in a communicative setting, where they interact with native Japanese speaking friends in a JFL context. Focusing on the relationship between gender ideologies and discourse practices, I explore the extent to which learners are aware of gender ideologies in the Japanese community and how these ideologies are influential in their discourse practices in the particular setting. In addition, how native speakers of Japanese evaluate gender-differentiated features produced by the learners during the interaction is investigated. Qualitatively-approached, this study revealed that each learner possesses a unique character in their utterances and perceptions, reflecting their individual awareness of gender ideologies and their negotiation of language use against the backdrop of social expectations. At the same time, a lack of such awareness emerged as an issue which kept them from fully and actively engaging in exploring their subjectivities. In addition, this study pointed out that native Japanese speakers utilised gender ideologies as the basis for their judgements on learners’ gendered features in their interaction.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"72 1","pages":"103-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76134875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nakagami Kenji's 'Writing Back to the Centre' through the Subaltern Narrative: Reading the Hidden Outcast Voice in 'Misaki' and Karekinada","authors":"M. Ishikawa","doi":"10.21159/NV.05.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.05.01","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this thesis is to give a post-colonial reading of selected narratives by Nakagami Kenji \u0000(1946-1992). Nakagami was the first Akutagawa Prize winning novelist from Japan’s outcaste \u0000Burakumin group. Through the production of narrative about this subaltern community, \u0000Nakagami confronted the exclusionary systems of hegemonic Japanese thought and the \u0000structures created by these systems which deny the principle and lived experience of ‘difference’. \u0000Borrowing the post-colonial concept of ‘writing back’ to the hegemonic centre from the work of \u0000Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin’s The Empire Writes Back, this article will analyse \u0000Nakagami’s ‘Misaki’ (1976, The Cape), and its sequel, Karekinada (1977, The Sea of Withered \u0000Trees). The principal focus will be on Nakagami’s representation of the hidden voice of those on \u0000the margins of Japanese society. \u0000This approach will position the Burakumin as ‘subalterns’ to the mainstream \u0000Japanese society on the basis of Antonio Gramsci’s view of the group. The analysis of ‘Misaki’ \u0000and Karekinada will begin with an investigation of Kishu Kumano as a site on the margins of \u0000mainstream Japanese society. In analysing these two novels as subaltern narratives, close attention \u0000will be given to Nakagami’s use of intertextuality particularly with oral kishu ryuritan folklore.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86134190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learners’ strategies for transliterating English loanwords into Katakana","authors":"Esther Lovely","doi":"10.21159/NV.04.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21159/NV.04.05","url":null,"abstract":"Post-World War II, the Japanese language has experienced massive infl uxes of foreign words and expressions into its lexicon, known as “loanwords” or borrowings. Th ese lexical items are commonly written in Japanese using katakana symbols. Transliterating these words into katakana accurately is a primary source of diffi culty for foreign learners of Japanese. Previous studies in the fi eld of learners’ transliteration of foreign loanwords have focused mainly on error analysis and no formal study has investigated the basis for learners’ methods of transliteration.","PeriodicalId":92427,"journal":{"name":"New voices in psychology","volume":"47 4 1","pages":"100-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91161792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}