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Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding
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Abstract
In this chapter, we analyze Japanese women’s narratives about their child-rearing experiences to reveal the meta-level of positioning of their husbands’ involvement through examining the use and non-use of benefactive verb forms. We pose the grammatical form of benefactive, especially the -te kureru form, as a center of meaning making wherein the ideologies of husband and wife bonding are negotiated and enacted in the situated context of interviews. Analyzing the narratives of women in three different groups (i.e., housewives, dual-income working women, and farmer women) in Japan, we demonstrate how the use and the non-use of -te kureru benefactive differently indexes husband and wife bonding in childrearing, while reflecting and reproducing contrasting ideologies regarding gender relations within the family.
Abstract
In this chapter, we analyze Japanese women’s narratives about their child-rearing experiences to reveal the meta-level of positioning of their husbands’ involvement through examining the use and non-use of benefactive verb forms. We pose the grammatical form of benefactive, especially the -te kureru form, as a center of meaning making wherein the ideologies of husband and wife bonding are negotiated and enacted in the situated context of interviews. Analyzing the narratives of women in three different groups (i.e., housewives, dual-income working women, and farmer women) in Japan, we demonstrate how the use and the non-use of -te kureru benefactive differently indexes husband and wife bonding in childrearing, while reflecting and reproducing contrasting ideologies regarding gender relations within the family.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships
- Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations 17
- Chapter 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives 39
- Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding 61
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Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding
- Chapter 4. Bonded but un-bonded 85
- Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding 105
- Chapter 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants 123
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Section III. Bonding through embodied practices
- Chapter 7. Familial bonding 147
- Chapter 8. Micro-bonding moments 173
- Chapter 9. Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals 197
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Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality
- Chapter 10. Getting to the point 217
- Chapter 11. Playful naming in playful framing 239
- Chapter 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising 265
- List of contributors 283
- Author Index 287
- Subject Index 289
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Bonding and stance-taking in creating relationships
- Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations 17
- Chapter 2. Reported thought, narrative positioning, and emotional expression in Japanese public speaking narratives 39
- Chapter 3. The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding 61
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Section II. The tactics and haggling of bonding/un-bonding
- Chapter 4. Bonded but un-bonded 85
- Chapter 5. Social consequences of common ground in the act of bonding 105
- Chapter 6. Confronting the EU referendum as immigrants 123
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Section III. Bonding through embodied practices
- Chapter 7. Familial bonding 147
- Chapter 8. Micro-bonding moments 173
- Chapter 9. Creating interactional bonds during theatrical rehearsals 197
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Section IV. Performing bonding through indexicality and intertextuality
- Chapter 10. Getting to the point 217
- Chapter 11. Playful naming in playful framing 239
- Chapter 12. Intertextuality in Japanese advertising 265
- List of contributors 283
- Author Index 287
- Subject Index 289
