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My major research
interests are discourse and grammar, language change, Japanese linguistics,
and teaching Japanese as a foreign language. I am particularly interested
in the exploration of how language change emerges and what is involved
in the course of such a change. I'm also interested in classroom
interaction and pedagogical grammar. Selected publications include:
Grammar in use across time and space: Deconstructing the Japanese
"dative subject" construction (2007) from John Benjamins;
"From a spatial framework to a subjective framework: the semantic
and pragmatic change of ni-marked NPs in Japanese" in Journal
of Historical Pragmatics 9-1 (2008); "A blurring of categorization:
The Japanese connective de in spontaneous conversation" in
Discourse Studies 8-2 (2006); "From a pragmatic marker
to a direct object marker: Japanese particle o in written Japanese"
in Studies in Language 26-2 (2002); "Iconically motivated use
of the Japanese discourse markers sorede, nde and de in conversation"
in Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20-2 (2001).
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East Asian Language Pedagogy Reading Group
East Asian Language Pedagogy Reading Group is a bi-weekly meeting
among those graduate students and faculty who are interested in
second language acquisition and pedagogy. Our goals are to expand
our knowledge of second/foreign language teaching, and to become
familiar with important professional resources so that we, as language
teachers, learn to become an informed, purposeful decision maker
in the second/foreign language classroom. For more information,
please contact Chilin Shih (cls@uiuc.edu),
Jeeyoung Ahn Ha (j-ahn3@uiuc.edu)
or Misumi Sadler <sadlerm@uiuc.edu>.
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Japanese Language Table
The Japanese Language Program at UIUC holds a weekly practice session.
Everyone is invited. Faculty, language TAs, and students who are
studying Japanese, from the elementary-level to the advanced-level,
gather together for this informal conversation table to get more
exposure to Japanese. For more information, click here.
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