Heritage Language Anxiety and Heritage Language Ideology in Language Inheritance : Insights from Narratives of Second-Generation Newcomers Who Did Not Inherit the Heritage Language in Japanese Society

ゲンゴケイショウ　ニ　オケル　ケイショウゴ　フアン　ト　ケイショウゴ　イデオロギー　ニホンシャカイ　デ　ケイショウゴ　ヲ　ケイショウ　シナカッタ　ニューカマー　２セイ　ノ　カタリ　カラ

ナカイエ, ショウエイ

Nakaie, Shoei

The Japanese Society for Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education

継承語不安

本質主義

ニューカマー2世

テーマ分析

This paper explores particular cases in which one did not inherit her heritage language from the perspective　of HLA by looking at narratives of second generation newcomers who did not take over their parents’ language in Japanese society. The research shows that, rather than they simply did not take it over, they even resisted, rejected, or avoided learning and using their heritage language, because of the attitudes of people surrounding them including their parents, relatives, and other people. Furthermore, it is noticeable in their questions and attitudes that they embrace a heritage language ideology, that is, excessive expectations and pressure on the ability to use an inherited language based on a sense of linguistic, ethnic, and national cohesion, which, I assume, eventually caused them to have HLA, and therefore difficulties inheriting heritage language. I conclude that heritage language ideology ensues as a result of the traditional view on language in Japanese society, in other words, the idea that a certain language belongs to people with the decent or nationality where it is spoken, according to Rina Tanaka, being uncritically applied to non-Japanese people and language and maintained as such.