日本女性对西方的渴望与英语学习动机

IF 1.4 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.006

Yoko Kobayashi

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这项研究重新考虑了一个有充分证据的论点，即年轻的日本女性对西方性别平等的浪漫欲望（akogare）促使她们学习英语。本研究分析了100名年龄在20至59岁之间的日本女性英语学习者的数字和书面数据。研究结果显示，虽然西方文化对他们的英语学习起到了催化剂的作用，但这种激励作用因年龄和自我认知的英语熟练程度而异。该研究还表明，许多研究参与者认为年轻日本女性对西方的喜爱是自然的，因为她们认为西方是一个被赋予积极属性的地方（例如，对个人自由的欣赏）。

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Japanese women's desire for the West and English study motivation

This study reconsiders the well-documented argument that young Japanese women's romantic desire (akogare) for the gender equality of the West motivates them to study English. This study analyzes numerical and written data from 100 female Japanese English learners aged 20 to 59. The findings revealed that while akogare for the West serves as a catalyst for English study among them, the motivational effect differs by age and self-perceived English proficiency. The study also shows that many research participants assess young Japanese women's akogare for the West as natural due to their perceptions of the West as a place endowed with positive attributes (e.g., appreciation for individual freedom).

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.