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Women and English in the Japanese Workplace: How English and English Study are Illustrated in Japanese Women’s Business Magazine Covers
Get PDF女性を対象にしたビジネス雑誌 2 誌の表紙から，英語あるいは英語学習に関する特集の記事について 記載があったものを選び，その記事の重要度や英語・英語学習の位置付けや意味付けのディスコースに ついて分析した。対象の 2 誌は，ターゲットとする読者層が異なるために，英語学習をどう捉えるかに ついて異なったプレゼンテーションをしていた一方で，英語学習は教養の一環でありより良い自分に変 わるための手段なのである，というディスコースが共通に展開されていた。これは，TOEIC 攻略法や英 語ができないと生き残れないと脅すディスコースが幅を効かせる一般ビジネス誌との大きな違いであ る。このことは，日本人女性と男性との間の，英語や英語学習に対する態度の違いの現れであるととも に，女性と男性とでは職場での地位や機会がいまだに異なっていることを示唆するものであろうと考え られる。
This paper analyzes the cover pages of two Japanese business magazines targeting women which mention English or English study, paying attention to the importance of the topic itself and to the discourse presented by the magazines regarding the significance of English study for their readers. The two magazines target different audiences: one, younger, rank-and-file office workers in their 20s and early 30s; the other, more mature women on their managerial career track in their 30s and 40s. However, they both present English and English study as something that will help these workers better themselves, both professionally but also in terms of becoming more ‘cultured’ individuals. Any mention of TOEIC is kept to a minimum, and there is also no discourse of threat that urges them to study English (or else!), which is in contrast to the prevailing discourse in business magazines with a predominantly male readership. It is argued that these differences possibly reflect the differences between women’s and men’s attitudes towards English and the studying of English as well as different positions and different career paths which women and men find available to them in their respective working environments.departmental bulletin pape
What is the Difference between Alveolar Stops and Retroflex Stops in Nepali?
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A Preliminary Analysis on the Perception of ‘Pincers’ Across the Austronesian Languages
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Negativity and Hope, or Addressing Gender and Race in Japanese Studies
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Intermarriage Families and Bilingual Education in the Context of Asia: An Analysis of Two Case Studies of Japanese Language Circles Run by Parents in South Korea and Thailand
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Martin Luther’s School of the Cross
Get PDFThis paper makes the case that a concept called “the school of the cross”exists in Martin Luther’s theology and that it is helpful for understanding Luther’s views of sanctification and Christian progress. This “school of the cross” (scola crucis in Latin) is both textual and contextual: textual, because it comes directly from Luther’s personal history and writings; contextual, because it brings together many frequently hard-to-connect pieces of Luther’s theology. Additionally, Luther’s school of the cross engages personal, communal, and dynamic aspects of life together. As the paper shows, this scola crucis fosters a theology of experience that has room for suffering, wonder, and joy and invites lifelong growth in empathy, hope, and courage.departmental bulletin pape
The Poetic Meaning of Tears in the Opening and Closing Parts of the Sarashina nikki
Get PDFThis paper is inspired by Prof. Tzvetana Kristeva’s monumental study on
the poetic image of tears, Namida no shigaku: Ōchō bungaku ni okeru shiteki
gengo (The Poetics of Tears: Poetic Language in the Literature of the Heian Court),
and is based on my Ph.D. research done under her supervision.
The paper discusses the poetic image of tears in the Sarashina nikki
(Sarashina Diary, ca. 1058), written by Takasue no Musume, Takasue’s
daughter.
The image of tears is a recurrent motif throughout the Sarashina Diary,
but it is especially prominent in its opening and closing parts, which present
it in contrasting ways.
In the opening part, a travelogue from the Eastern provinces to the
capital, the image of tears is not explicit and is suggested through the
use of toponyms, utamakura and landscape descriptions. I traced the
poetic allusions and associations with tears created by the toponyms and
utamakura in the travelogue, using the CD-ROM version of the complete
waka collection Kokka Taikan. I came to the conclusion that although the
image of tears can be ambiguous and have multiple interpretations, one of
its main functions is to evoke the character of Ukifune, the tragic heroine
from the Tale of Genji, and to prepare the reader for a story with no romantic
development—an unusual deviation from the genre of nikki bungaku, to
which the Sarashina Diary belongs.
Tears are a focusing image in the final poems of the diary as well,
providing a connection with its beginning. The “hidden” tears in the
opening part are a prelude to a life story where the protagonist suffers
bereavement and disappointment, and romance is only a vicarious
experience through fiction. At the end of the story the heroine is “openly
shedding tears” expressing an all-encompassing feeling of sadness,
including sadness related to the absence and/or impossibility of romance.departmental bulletin pape