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Itakura, Hiroko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
The gendered speech in a foreign language has been found to pose barriers for learners due to different gender norms associated with their mother tongue and the foreign language. The problem is especially serious with the masculine and feminine forms of speech in the Japanese language, as these are strongly linked with social inequality between…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Japanese