{"title":"Japanese women's desire for the West and English study motivation","authors":"Yoko Kobayashi","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study reconsiders the well-documented argument that young Japanese women's romantic desire (<em>akogare</em>) 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 <em>akogare</em> 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 <em>akogare</em> 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).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 176-185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027153092400096X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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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.
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