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
Expressivity of vagueness: Alienation in verb-tari suru construction, Japanese Language and Literature (2008)
Review of Japanese Language in Use: An Introduction by Toshiko Yamaguchi, Japanese Language and Literature (2008)
Quotative topic markers in Japanese, RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication (2006)
Self-mockery in Japanese, Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Langue Sciences (2002)
Japanese complementizers: Interactions between basic characteristics and contextual factors, Journal of Pragmatics (2000)
Books
Contributions to Books
Surprise and disapproval: On how societal views of the outside correlate with linguistic expressions, Emotive Communication in Japanese (2006)