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This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities into positions of contestation and control over marginalizing discourses which disempower them as ‘others’ within Japanese society as they begin to mature. Paradoxically, at other times, within more empowering alternative discourses of ethnicity, they also enjoy and celebrate cultural, symbolic, social and linguistic capital which they discursively create for themselves as they come to terms with their constructed identities of “Japaneseness”, “whiteness” and “halfness/doubleness”. This book has a colourful storyline throughout - narrated in the girls’ own voices - that follows them out of childhood and into the rapid physical and emotional growth years of early adolescence.

Identity (Psychology) --- Racially mixed children --- Language and culture --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Children of interracial marriage --- Children --- Racially mixed people --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Social aspects --- Ethnic identity. --- Constructed identities . --- Discourse analysis. --- Ethnicity. --- Gender. --- Half-Japanese girls. --- Hybrid identities . --- Hybrid identity construction. --- Identity construction. --- Japaneseness. --- Mixed-race identities. --- Multiethnicity. --- Whiteness. --- Multiracial children

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The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrate hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and ideological perspectives, the authors use contexts as diverse as social media, Bollywood films, workplaces and kindergartens to explore the ways in which English has become a part of localities and social relations in ways that are of significant sociolinguistic interest in understanding the dynamics of mobile cultures and transcultural flows.

English language --- EFL (Language study) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (Language study) --- ESOL (Language study) --- Teaching English as a second language --- TEFL (Language study) --- TESL (Language study) --- English language in foreign countries --- World Englishes --- Globalization. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Standardization. --- Foreign students --- Germanic languages