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Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis Of Femininities,Performances, And Representations, Reslie Cortes
Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis Of Femininities,Performances, And Representations, Reslie Cortes
Communication ETDs
In this study I examine the multiple ways in which femininity is performed and how those performances intersect with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the anime Bleach and Samurai Champloo. I also interrogate the implications of these performances in relation to hegemonic discourses of Japanese femininity in the U.S. as submissive, deferent, incompetent, and domestic. As I explain in this document many performances of femininity reinforce this Orientalist ideology, however there are also performances that can alter viewers perception of femininity and offer performances of gender identity that do not conform to hegemonic norms. By doing so, anime can shape …
Social Support Seeking Processes In Japan And The United States: A Multi-Layered Approach, Satoshi Moriizumi
Social Support Seeking Processes In Japan And The United States: A Multi-Layered Approach, Satoshi Moriizumi
Communication ETDs
The current study investigated cultural, familial, and individual differences in social support seeking processes between Japan and the United States by applying face negotiation theory (FNT). The application of FNT contributed to understanding social support seeking processes by utilizing such concepts as national cultures, and horizontal-vertical individualism and collectivism (I-C) as cultural variables, family communication patterns (FCP) as meso-cultural variables, self-construals as culturally influenced individual variables, and face concerns as situational and relational variables. Using the FNT framework, the current study focused on the following five aspects: (a) cross-cultural comparisons of the amount of social support seeking and coping styles, …
Immigration Discourses In The U.S. And In Japan, Chie Torigoe
Immigration Discourses In The U.S. And In Japan, Chie Torigoe
Communication ETDs
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate how systems of racial inequality and dominance produced at macro-institutional level discourses are reproduced and/or challenged in micro-interpersonal everyday discourses regarding immigration/foreign workers in the U.S. and in Japan. To establish a link between the discourses at these two levels, I employed a combination of critical and interpretive theoretical perspectives, and analyzed how racial ideologies were reproduced and/or challenged through participants' use of various interpretative repertoires (i.e., discursive themes and specific rhetorical moves therein) and positioning of self and Others. Interpretative repertoires and discursive positioning of self and Others are major …
A History And Development Of The Intercultural Communication Field In Japan (1950-Present), Holly Siebert Kawakami
A History And Development Of The Intercultural Communication Field In Japan (1950-Present), Holly Siebert Kawakami
Communication ETDs
The history of the academic discipline of Intercultural Communication in Japan began at the end of the 1950s, in convergence with the historical context of Japan devastated by war and the social context of a population struggling to navigate a new identity and way forward. Both Japanese and American scholars contributed to the establishment and development of the Intercultural Communication field over the decades. Three research questions were posed for this study: one, why did the Intercultural Communication discipline become established in Japan as the first place after the United States, two, what was it about Intercultural Communication that resonated …