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Tomoaki Morikawa; Jayson Parba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Online eikaiwa, or English conversations via teleconferencing platforms, is a popular informal English learning avenue among Japanese nationals. Although online eikaiwa has received scholarly attention in recent years, only a few studies have investigated the current diversification efforts in the industry in terms of hiring teachers from various…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Heinz, Bettina; Cheng, Hsin-I; Inuzuka, Ako – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2007
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries