Judit Kroo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Judit Kroo is involved.
2025 Chapter 6. From the peripheries of adulthood: Deconstructing culturally-expected identities of age categories Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
This study considers how individuals who are peripheralized from core or dominant social positions perform linguistic stances to indirectly resist the behaviors and attitudes that are expected of them. Focusing on the life-stage peripheries of youth and old age, the study uses discourse analysis… read more
2022 Negotiating identities: First person pronominal use between Japanese university students Pragmatics and Society 13:1, pp. 22–44 | Article
This study examines processes through which social personae are conveyed by male Japanese students at a public university in Yokohama. Focusing on the frame-setting function of first person pronominals (FPPs) in contexts where there is no intra/inter speaker variation in the choice of FPP, this… read more
2021 Discourse (re)-framing: Narratives of adulthood in contemporary Japan Language, Culture and Society 3:1, pp. 82–106 | Article
Focusing on the move from gakusei ‘student’ to shakaijin ‘working adult, lit. fully socialized adult’ during a period of continuing economic stagnation and social dislocation, the current study analyzes contemporary Japanese university students’ alignments with respect to ideologies surrounding… read more
2018 Gentle masculinity in East Asia: ‘Herbivore Men’ and interlocutor constructed language Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2, pp. 251–280 | Article
This study considers the Japanese phenomenon of sooshokukei-danshi (SKD) ‘Herbivore Men’ within larger discourses of ‘East-Asian gentle masculinity.’ Focusing on lexical variation across both scripted and naturalistic data, the current study argues that while use of salient variables by SKD… read more