Discourses of Identity

Chapter 1 Introduction to Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation in Japan: Diversity, Inequalities, and Identities

Chapter 2 English Language Learners’ Discursive Constructions of National and Global Identities in the Japanese University Context

Chapter 3 Becoming the Paths we Tread: Negotiating Identity through an Ideological Landscape of Practice

Chapter 4 The Intertwining of Native-Speakerism and Racism in the Construction of Linguistic Identity

Chapter 5 Creation and Expansion of a Safe Place to Be Ainu: The Urespa Project

Chapter 6 In Search of Indigenous Identity through Re-Creation of Ainu Self-Sustaining Community: Praxis and Learning in Action

Chapter 7 Hear our Voice: New Speakers of Ryukyuan Language—Negotiation, Construction, and Change of Identities

Chapter 8 Ryukyuan Language Reclamation: Individual Struggle and Social Change

Chapter 9 Conflicting and Shifting Professional Identities of Two Indonesian Nurses: L2 Japanese Socialization at Workplaces in Japan and after their Return to Indonesia

Chapter 10 “Your Class Is Like Karaoke”: Language Learning as a Shelter

Chapter 11 “No Need to Invest in the Japanese Language?”: The Identity Development of Chinese Students in the English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Program of a Japanese College

Chapter 12 Who Speaks Yasashii Nihongo for Whom?: Reimagining the “Beneficiary” Identities of Plain/Easy Japanese

Chapter 13 Discursive Construction of Heritage Desire: Nikkei Identity Discourse in a Layered Politics of Representation

Chapter 15 Discursive Positioning of the Philippines and Filipino Teachers in the Online Eikaiwa Industry

Chapter 16 Framing, Ideology, and the Negotiation of Professional Identities Among Non-Japanese EFL Teachers in Japan

Chapter 17 Emotion and Identity: The Impact of English-Only Policies on Japanese English Teachers in Japan

Chapter 18 Performing Motivating and Caring Identities: The Emotions of Non-Japanese University Teachers of English

Chapter 19 Moving Beyond the Monolingual Orientation to Investigate Language Teacher Identities: A Translingual Approach in the Japanese EFL Context