I am a specialist in Japanese linguistics and teach all levels of the language
courses (from elementary to fourth year) as well as Japanese linguistics courses. My
research interests are in linguistic pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and discourse
analysis. I have published several articles in the Journal of Pragmatics and other
publications on the relationship between activity and complementizers, discourse analysis
and other subjects. 

EDUCATION: B.A., University of Niigata, 1986; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1989, Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota, 1993

Journal Articles

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Vernacular style writing: Strategic blurring of the boundary between spoken and written discourse in Japanese, Pragmatics (2009)
 

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Expressivity of vagueness: Alienation in verb-tari suru construction, Japanese Language and Literature (2008)
 

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Review of Japanese Language in Use: An Introduction by Toshiko Yamaguchi, Japanese Language and Literature (2008)
 

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Quotative topic markers in Japanese, RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication (2006)
 

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Self-mockery in Japanese, Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (2002)
 

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Books

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Emotive Communication in Japanese (2006)
 

Contributions to Books

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Emotive communication in Japanese: An introduction, Emotive Communication in Japanese (2006)
 

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Surprise and disapproval: On how societal views of the outside correlate with linguistic expressions, Emotive Communication in Japanese (2006)
 

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Surprise and Animosity: The Use of the copula da in quotative sentences in Japanese, Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude (2000)
 

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Pejorative connotation: A case of Japanese, Discourse Markers: Descriptions and Theory (1998)