Introduction, Junko Mori (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) and Amy Snyder Ohta (University of Washington, USA) \ Part I: Re-examination of language in action \ 1. Conversation and grammar: Approaching so-called conditionals in Japanese, Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta, USA) and Kimberly Jones (University of Arizona, USA) \ 2. Negotiating agreement and disagreement in Japanese: An analysis of designedly ambiguous turn completion points, Junko Mori (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) and Kanae Nakamura (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) \ 3. Construction of speech styles: The case of the Japanese naked plain form, Haruko Minegishi Cook (University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Hawaii) \ Part II: Ideologies, diversities, and identities \ 4. Keigo ideology, Patricia J. Wetzel (Portland State University, USA) \ 5. The use of "regional" and "standard" Japanese in conversations: A case study from Osaka, Shigeko Okamoto (California State University, USA) \ 6. When the coach is a woman: The situational meanings of so-called masculine directives in a Japanese boxing gym, Misao Okada (Hokusei Gakuen University, Japan) \ 7. Discursive practices and changing identities in elderly Japanese women, Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University, USA) \ Part III: Japanese as an additional language \ 8. Laughter and second language acquisition: A study of Japanese foreign language classes, Amy Snyder Ohta (University of Washington, USA) \ 9. Making inquiries: Toiawase strategies by Japanese L1 and L2 callers to Japanese educational institutions, Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura (University of Maryland, USA) \ 10. Transnationalism, imagined communities, and language minority education in Japan, Yasuko Kanno (Temple University, USA) \ Part IV: Critical reflection on language pedagogy \ 11. Learner competence as a resource in the Japanese as a foreign language classroom: Issues in oral assessment, Dina Rudolph Yoshimi (University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Hawaii) \ 12. Critical approaches to teaching Japanese language and culture, Ryuko Kubota (University of North Carolina, USA) \ Bibliography \ Index
