Jae DiBello Takeuchi is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Director of the Language and International Business Program in the Department of Languages, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Her research interests include Japanese sociolinguistics and language variation, second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, native speaker bias and speaker legitimacy.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. This Study: L2 Speakers in Japan         

Chapter 3. "Foreigners Don't Need Keigo" Excusing L2 Speakers from Keigo

Chapter 4. Trying (Not) to Sound Like a "Girly-girl" or a "Manly-man"

Chapter 5. "You're Speaking Dialect, That's Funny Cuz You're a Foreigner"            

Chapter 6. "His Japanese Makes No Sense"

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Appendices

References