Previous work on the Osaka dialect (OD) collectively suggests that this western regional variant of Japanese is associated with informality, masculinity, and affective fatherhood—social meanings that can be recruited in the construction of audio-visual media personas. This study examines the use of OD by one protagonist in the film Soshite chichi ni naru/Like father, like son, as well as the social meanings that listeners attribute to this variety of Japanese. Specifically, we ask two questions: (i) to what extent is the production of OD in the film recognizable to native speakers of Japanese, and (ii) what qualities do Japanese language users attribute to OD? A dialect recognition experiment found low recognizability of OD but high recognizability of a general ‘nonstandard Japanese’ language variety. Qualitative data revealed that Japanese language users perceived OD to index various characteristics including that of a masculine, affective father. (Perception, dialect, fatherhood, Osaka dialect, indexicality)*

以前关于大阪方言 (OD) 的研究表明，这种西方地区的日语变体与非正式、阳刚之气和情感父亲有关——这些社会意义可以用于构建视听媒体角色。这项研究探讨了电影Soshite chichi ni naru /像父亲一样的儿子中一位主角对 OD 的使用，以及听众赋予这种日语多样性的社会意义。具体来说，我们提出两个问题：(i) 影片中的 OD 制作在多大程度上能够被以日语为母语的人所识别，以及 (ii) 日语用户将哪些品质归于 OD？方言识别实验发现 OD 的可识别性低，但一般“非标准日语”语言变体的可识别性高。定性数据显示，日语用户感知 OD 来索引各种特征，包括男性、情感父亲的特征。（感知、方言、父亲身份、大阪方言、索引性）*