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Dr Yoko Yonezawa
PhD, MA (The Australian National University); BA (Japan Women’s University)
Lecturer
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Yoko's research focuses on the interface between language and culture, and grammar and pragmatics. She is interested in how social cognitions are embedded into grammar in Japanese, how the use of certain linguistic items might perform to express identity, and how they might be connected to the formation of language ideology. She also brings her knowledge of Japanese to cross-linguistic studies and linguistic typology.
- Interface between language and culture
- Interaction between grammar and pragmatics
- Language and identity
- Language and gender
- Linguistic analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates
- Comparative studies of Japanese and Northeast Asian languages
Teaching (2022)
- JPNS3611 Japanese 5
- JPNS3612 Japanese 6
- JPNS3650 Japanese Language and Identity
Supervision (proposals welcome)
- Japanese linguistics (pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology)
- Comparative studies of Japanese and East Asian languages
- Students interested in conducting post graduate research related to Yoko’s research areas are welcome to contact her directly.
Independent projects
- Japanese female politicians's language
- Person reference terms in reported speech
- Kinship terms in Japanese
Collaborative projects
- Language and identity in Japanese political discourse (with Hon. A/P Nerida Jarkey at USyd)
- The nexus between social change and language change with a focus on Northeast Asian address systems (with Dr Narah Lee at UQ & Dr Xiangdong Liu at UWS)
- Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP): Award for Excellence in Language Teaching (2017)
- Australian National University: CAP Wattle Award (2017)
- Higher Education Academy Associate Fellowship (2017)
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Translational Reading: Analysing Japanese Literature Through Translation | Laura MARSHALL |
| Synchronic variation in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction: A corpus-based study of ‘sasete itadaku’ | Kimiyo MATSUI |
Selected publications
The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese
(John Benjamins, 2021)
Publications
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Books
- Yonezawa, Y. (2021). The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [More Information]
- Lee, D., Ogi, N., Toma, M., Yonezawa, Y. (2010). Nihono ga Ippai [Lots of Japanese]: Elementary Japanese Textbook. Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo.
Book Chapters
- Yonezawa, Y. (2023). Wakimae. In Sigurd D'hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, (pp. 127-153). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [More Information]
Journals
- Yonezawa, Y. (2024). Don't call me obasan "aunt": Address practices towards aunts and conceptualisation of the kinship term obasan in contemporary Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics, 9(1), 78-108. [More Information]
- Yonezawa, Y. (2024). Generic and vague uses of a second-person singular pronoun in an open-class person-reference system and speaker creativity in reported speech: the case of anata in Japanese. Linguistics. [More Information]
- Yonezawa, Y. (2019). Constructing fluid relationships through language: A study of address terms in a Japanese drama and its pedagogical implications. Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 35(2), 189-211. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Yonezawa, Y. (2017). Reflecting the Fluidity of Relationships: A Study of Address Terms in Japanese. Proceedings of the NINJAL International Symposium "The 10th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, Tokyo: NINJAL. [More Information]
- Lee, D., Ogi, N., Lee, N., Yonezawa, Y. (2015). On the characteristics of personal reference terms in Korean: a comparison with Japanese based on TV dramas. Proceedings of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia Biennial Conference, Adelaide, Australia: Korean Studies Association of Australasia.
- Yonezawa, Y. (2014). Nininshoo daimeishi anata ni kansuru ichikoosatsu: Kokkaigijiroku no bunseki o tooshite [A study of the second person pronoun anata 'you' through an analysis of the minutes of the Japanese Diet]. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Canberra: Japanese Studies Association of Australia. [More Information]
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2024
- Yonezawa, Y. (2024). Don't call me obasan "aunt": Address practices towards aunts and conceptualisation of the kinship term obasan in contemporary Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics, 9(1), 78-108. [More Information]
- Yonezawa, Y. (2024). Generic and vague uses of a second-person singular pronoun in an open-class person-reference system and speaker creativity in reported speech: the case of anata in Japanese. Linguistics. [More Information]
2023
- Yonezawa, Y. (2023). Wakimae. In Sigurd D'hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, (pp. 127-153). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [More Information]
2021
- Yonezawa, Y. (2021). The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [More Information]
2019
- Yonezawa, Y. (2019). Constructing fluid relationships through language: A study of address terms in a Japanese drama and its pedagogical implications. Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 35(2), 189-211. [More Information]
2017
- Yonezawa, Y. (2017). Reflecting the Fluidity of Relationships: A Study of Address Terms in Japanese. Proceedings of the NINJAL International Symposium "The 10th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, Tokyo: NINJAL. [More Information]
2016
- Yonezawa, Y. (2016). Native Speakers' Perceptions of the Second Person Pronoun anata 'you' in Japanese. Nihongo Kyoiku, 163(4), 64-78. [More Information]
2015
- Lee, D., Ogi, N., Lee, N., Yonezawa, Y. (2015). On the characteristics of personal reference terms in Korean: a comparison with Japanese based on TV dramas. Proceedings of the Korean Studies Association of Australasia Biennial Conference, Adelaide, Australia: Korean Studies Association of Australasia.
2014
- Yonezawa, Y. (2014). Nininshoo daimeishi anata ni kansuru ichikoosatsu: Kokkaigijiroku no bunseki o tooshite [A study of the second person pronoun anata 'you' through an analysis of the minutes of the Japanese Diet]. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Canberra: Japanese Studies Association of Australia. [More Information]
2010
- Lee, D., Ogi, N., Toma, M., Yonezawa, Y. (2010). Nihono ga Ippai [Lots of Japanese]: Elementary Japanese Textbook. Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo.
2008
- Lee, D., Yonezawa, Y. (2008). The role of the overt expression of first and second person subject in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics, 40(4), 733-767. [More Information]