Rika Ito
Biographic Data
| ID | 655644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rika Ito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rika |
| FAMILY NAME | Ito |
| SIGNATURE | ITO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9775-3858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Please take her as your wife: Mediatizing indigenous Ainu in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy
This article investigates linguistic and visual representations of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan, in Satoru Noda’s popular televised Japanese anime Golden Kamuy (GK) . The study employs multimodal analysis, focusing on content, context, characters, and perspectives related to the deployment of the Ainu language using the perspectives of raciolinguistics, coloniality, and intersectionality, to examine GK’s representations of Ai…
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy
Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan
Not a white girl and speaking English with slang: Negotiating Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
This paper analyzes metalinguistic comments of two young Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis-St Paul area regarding their identity negotiation using tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall 2004a, 2004b, 2005), the notion of brought-along identity (Williams 2008) and Zhang's (2017) sociohistorical perspectives in analyzing linguistic variation. Two Hmong American individuals were selected from over 60 Hmong American interviewees because their…
Blond hair, blue eyes, and “bad” Japanese: Representing foreigner stereotypes in Japanese anime
This paper investigates foreigners’ linguistic and visual representations observed in 17 recent Japanese animated shows (or anime), and explores ways to increase students’ critical awareness of issues regarding Japanese language and culture. We find that foreign characters in anime tend to be linguistically represented with simplified, marked Japanese, and/or interjection of native language expressions to mark their otherness. While there are 17 …
North Pillow Brings Bad Luck: Construction of Ideologies of English in a Japanese TV Drama, Massan
This article examines how ideologies of English are constructed and reproduced through the use of English by various television characters. It analyzes the form, content, and context in an NHK morning drama Massan, focusing on the construction of incompetence. Similar to previous studies, the contrast between characters based on their English skills are represented through various semiotic processes. However, unlike other studies where the indivi…
Accommodation to the Local Majority Norm by Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, Minnesota
This study investigates selected English sounds spoken by immigrants in a region of the United States undergoing vowel space restructuring. The vowels of Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area are compared to those of local white middle-class speakers. Results of this comparison suggest that young white speakers produce a fronted bat vowel and a lowered and backed bet. Males reduce the mean bot-bought spectral distance, leaving the impr…
Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers
This article examines variable usage of intensifiers in a corpus from a socially and generationally stratified community. Using multivariate analyses, the authors assess the direction of effect, significance, and relative importance of conditioning factors in apparent time. Of 4,019 adjectival heads, 24% were intensified, and there is an increase in intensification across generations. Earlier forms (e.g. right and well) do not fade away but coexi…
Think really different: Continuity and specialization in the English dual form adverbs
This paper analyses variation between -ly and -ø in English dual form adverbs by examining conversational data from York, U.K. Using multivariate analysis and the comparative method we assess the constraint ranking, significance and relative importance of external factors (age, sex, education level) and internal factors (lexical identity, function and meaning). The results show that -ly is dominant and has increased dramatically in apparent time.…
Identity, Discourse, and Language Variation
Recent work in sociolinguistics has not taken advantage of the correlation between emerging features of a variety and the degree to which the individual identity of persons within the region where that variety is taking hold determines the rapidity with which such features are adopted. The authors examine the spread of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift into nonurban, northern Michigan and find that speakers who have less local loyalty, as expressed…
Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers
This article examines variable usage of intensifiers in a corpus from a socially and generationally stratified community. Using multivariate analyses, the authors assess the direction of effect, significance, and relative importance of conditioning factors in apparent time. Of 4,019 adjectival heads, 24% were intensified, and there is an increase in intensification across generations. Earlier forms (e.g. right and well) do not fade away but coexi…
Accommodation to the Local Majority Norm by Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, Minnesota
This study investigates selected English sounds spoken by immigrants in a region of the United States undergoing vowel space restructuring. The vowels of Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area are compared to those of local white middle-class speakers. Results of this comparison suggest that young white speakers produce a fronted bat vowel and a lowered and backed bet. Males reduce the mean bot-bought spectral distance, leaving the impr…
Think really different: Continuity and specialization in the English dual form adverbs
This paper analyses variation between -ly and -ø in English dual form adverbs by examining conversational data from York, U.K. Using multivariate analysis and the comparative method we assess the constraint ranking, significance and relative importance of external factors (age, sex, education level) and internal factors (lexical identity, function and meaning). The results show that -ly is dominant and has increased dramatically in apparent time.…
Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan
Not a white girl and speaking English with slang: Negotiating Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
This paper analyzes metalinguistic comments of two young Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis-St Paul area regarding their identity negotiation using tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall 2004a, 2004b, 2005), the notion of brought-along identity (Williams 2008) and Zhang's (2017) sociohistorical perspectives in analyzing linguistic variation. Two Hmong American individuals were selected from over 60 Hmong American interviewees because their…
Identity, Discourse, and Language Variation
Recent work in sociolinguistics has not taken advantage of the correlation between emerging features of a variety and the degree to which the individual identity of persons within the region where that variety is taking hold determines the rapidity with which such features are adopted. The authors examine the spread of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift into nonurban, northern Michigan and find that speakers who have less local loyalty, as expressed…
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy
North Pillow Brings Bad Luck: Construction of Ideologies of English in a Japanese TV Drama, Massan
This article examines how ideologies of English are constructed and reproduced through the use of English by various television characters. It analyzes the form, content, and context in an NHK morning drama Massan, focusing on the construction of incompetence. Similar to previous studies, the contrast between characters based on their English skills are represented through various semiotic processes. However, unlike other studies where the indivi…
Identity, Discourse, and Language Variation
Recent work in sociolinguistics has not taken advantage of the correlation between emerging features of a variety and the degree to which the individual identity of persons within the region where that variety is taking hold determines the rapidity with which such features are adopted. The authors examine the spread of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift into nonurban, northern Michigan and find that speakers who have less local loyalty, as expressed…
Think really different: Continuity and specialization in the English dual form adverbs
This paper analyses variation between -ly and -ø in English dual form adverbs by examining conversational data from York, U.K. Using multivariate analysis and the comparative method we assess the constraint ranking, significance and relative importance of external factors (age, sex, education level) and internal factors (lexical identity, function and meaning). The results show that -ly is dominant and has increased dramatically in apparent time.…
Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers
This article examines variable usage of intensifiers in a corpus from a socially and generationally stratified community. Using multivariate analyses, the authors assess the direction of effect, significance, and relative importance of conditioning factors in apparent time. Of 4,019 adjectival heads, 24% were intensified, and there is an increase in intensification across generations. Earlier forms (e.g. right and well) do not fade away but coexi…
Accommodation to the Local Majority Norm by Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, Minnesota
This study investigates selected English sounds spoken by immigrants in a region of the United States undergoing vowel space restructuring. The vowels of Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area are compared to those of local white middle-class speakers. Results of this comparison suggest that young white speakers produce a fronted bat vowel and a lowered and backed bet. Males reduce the mean bot-bought spectral distance, leaving the impr…
Blond hair, blue eyes, and “bad” Japanese: Representing foreigner stereotypes in Japanese anime
This paper investigates foreigners’ linguistic and visual representations observed in 17 recent Japanese animated shows (or anime), and explores ways to increase students’ critical awareness of issues regarding Japanese language and culture. We find that foreign characters in anime tend to be linguistically represented with simplified, marked Japanese, and/or interjection of native language expressions to mark their otherness. While there are 17 …
North Pillow Brings Bad Luck: Construction of Ideologies of English in a Japanese TV Drama, Massan
This article examines how ideologies of English are constructed and reproduced through the use of English by various television characters. It analyzes the form, content, and context in an NHK morning drama Massan, focusing on the construction of incompetence. Similar to previous studies, the contrast between characters based on their English skills are represented through various semiotic processes. However, unlike other studies where the indivi…
Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan
Not a white girl and speaking English with slang: Negotiating Hmong American identities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
This paper analyzes metalinguistic comments of two young Hmong Americans in the Minneapolis-St Paul area regarding their identity negotiation using tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall 2004a, 2004b, 2005), the notion of brought-along identity (Williams 2008) and Zhang's (2017) sociohistorical perspectives in analyzing linguistic variation. Two Hmong American individuals were selected from over 60 Hmong American interviewees because their…
Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy
Please take her as your wife: Mediatizing indigenous Ainu in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy
This article investigates linguistic and visual representations of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan, in Satoru Noda’s popular televised Japanese anime Golden Kamuy (GK) . The study employs multimodal analysis, focusing on content, context, characters, and perspectives related to the deployment of the Ainu language using the perspectives of raciolinguistics, coloniality, and intersectionality, to examine GK’s representations of Ai…
Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)