これは何ですか。What’s this about?

…”I ask him if he is ‘out’ and he looks at me, moves his head slightly forward and asks, ‘Pardon?’”
“Are you out of the closet?” I explain.
He shakes his head from side to side a little, leans in and says slowly, “I’m not gay in Japanese, I’m only gay in English.”

The above excerpt introduces [...]

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Reflection: “So what is it like to write a dissertation?”

“So what is it like to write a dissertation?”
I suppose this question had always been lurking in my head, and I know from time to time I pondered getting to the other side of 120 pages, only the first half, especially at the time when the project was merely an idea discussed over lunch in [...]

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Feminist Communitarian Moral Framework

ENGL 815: Feminist Communitarian Moral/Ethical Framework
“presumes a researcher who builds a reciprocal, collaborative, trusting, and friendly relations with the persons he or she is studying.” (Denzin, 2003, p. xii)
INTRO: While planning my dissertation project, a narrative examination of the significance of English language and communication in the lives of self-identified queer Japanese, I often considered [...]

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