Dina Rudolph Yoshimi

Associate Professor, Japanese Language

Lincoln Annex 2, Room 6
1859 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-2077
Fax: (808) 956-9515
E-mail: dinar@hawaii.edu

Educational Background

Educational Background

B.A.: 1984. Yale University, Linguistics
M.A.: 1989. University of Southern California, Applied Linguistics
Ph.D.: 1993. University of Southern California, Linguistics (Applied)

Research Areas

Japanese second language acquisition (pragmatics)
Japanese language pedagogy (experimental approaches to the instruction of extended discourse)
Japanese discourse and pragmatics (epistemic and affective functions of sentence-final particles)
Japanese sociolinguistics (apprenticeship relationships)

Selected Bibliography

(forthcoming). The instruction of discourse markers in an intermediate preparation Japanese foreign language classroom. In G. Kasper and K. Rose, (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1999. The language of interdependence in Japanese vertical relationships. In J. Verschueren, (Ed.),Pragmatics in 1998: Selected Proceedings of the 6th International Pragmatics Conference.

1999. L1 language socialization as a variable in the linguistic expression of affect by L2 learners of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics, 31: 1513-1525 (special issue on Language Socialization and the Acquisition of Japanese).

1998. Creating a voice of student authority in the context of Japanese graduate education. In J. H. O’Mealy and L. E. Lyons (Eds.), Language, Linguistics and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Carol M. Eastman. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

1997. An expanded concept of speakerhood in Japanese discourse. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, vol. 6. Stanford: CLSI-Stanford University.

 

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