Michiko Kaneyasu

Education

Ph.D., M.A., University of California Los Angeles

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Language

Profile

Michiko Kaneyasu received her Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics in 2012 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include formulaic language, discourse and grammar, corpus linguistics, and Japanese as a foreign language pedagogy. Her dissertation, entitled “From Frequency to Formulaicity: Morphemic Bundles and Semi-Fixed Constructions in Japanese Spoken Discourse,” investigates patterns and functions of recurrent multi-morphemic sequences as well as partially-filled constructions in large corpora of Japanese spoken discourse.

Selected Publications

2015. Stance Taking in Japanese Newspaper Discourse: The Use and Non-use of Copulas Da and Dearu. Text & Talk. Volume 25, Issue 2, pp. 207-236.

2015. Mikan Yo Mikan: Formulaic Constructions and Their Implicature in Conversation. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 21, pp. 199-213.  Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. (with Mayumi Ajioka, Yumiko Kawanishi, and Shoichi Iwasaki).

2013. Grammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-topical Subject in Japanese Conversation. In Kondo-Brown, K., Saito-Abbot, Y., Satsutani, S., Tsutsui, M., and Wehmeyer, A. K. (eds.), New Perspectives on Japanese Language Learning, Linguistics, and Culture, pp. 123-144. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Languages Resource Center.