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Kobayashi, Hiroe; Rinnert, Carol – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2013
This longitudinal case study, supplemented by cross-sectional comparisons among five groups of writers with differing backgrounds, investigates how Natsu, a Japanese multilingual writer, developed her L1, L2 (English), and L3 (Chinese) writing competence over two and a half years. To create a comprehensive picture of this multilingual writer, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Multilingualism, Native Language
Iwamoto, Noriko – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper considers the relationship between the "context of a situation" and the "metaphorically construed" reality within the transitivity paradigm of Systemic Functional Grammar. The research employed the transitivity model advanced by K. Davidse (1992) to examine the discourse of Japanese wartime (World War II) reporting…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Expository Writing