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Junko Baba
Japanese Faculty
Associate Professor

Phone: (803) 777-4315 
Fax:     (803) 777-0454 
E-mail: babaj@sc.edu

 Education
M.A. Seinan Gakuin University, Japan 1980
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin 1996
 
 Teaching Interests

Japanese language
Japanese literature(classic/modern)
Japanese theater

 
 Research Interests
Sociolinguistics and applied linguistics specializing in Discourse analysis, Conversation analysis and Pragmatics
 

 
 Selected Publications

Books:
2000 (with Keith Kenney's CD-Rom)
Traditional Shikoku Pilgrimage in the Modern Context, Tokyo: Sofusha Shuppan: 75 pages
Intercultural Education involving Japan

1999 Interlanguage Pragmatics: Compliment Responses by Learners of Japanese and English as a Second Language. Munechen, Germany: Lincom Europa. 218 pages.

 

Articles and Book Chapters :
2004 “Meaning of Blindess in Zato Kyogen Plays.” Japan Studies Review [forthcoming]

2003 “Pragmatic Function of Japanese Mimetics in the Spoken Discourse of Varying Emotive Intensity Levels.” Journal of Pragmatics [In press]

2003 “Linguistic Affect and JSL: How do American learners express linguistic affect in the Japanese language?” Southern Journal of Linguistics [In press]

2002 “Cross-Linguistic Study on Emotion and Linguistic Affect: Japanese vs. Americans” RASK (University of Southern Denmark Press, Odense). 17: 54-101.

2000 “Maintenance and Change of Tradition in the Modern Context.” The Virginia Review of Asian Studies, 2: 91-109.

2000 (with Stanley Dubinsky.) “A Novel Semantic Rule for Causee
Marking and Its Pedagogical Applications.” JATJ (Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese). 34: 1-25.

1998 (with Stanley Dubinsky). “Teinei/Keigo Hyoogen: Toogozyoo no Soonyuu ni Okeru Goyooteki Kinoo (Polite/honorific Expressions: The Pragmatic Function of Syntactic Embedding).” In Gengogaku to Nihongo Kyooiku (Linguistics and Japanese Language Education),Yukiko Sasaki Alam (ed.), Tokyo: Kurosio Shuppan, 113-128 and 327.

1997 (with Stanley Dubinsky). "Postposition Selection in Causative Sentences: Application in the Classroom". Twelfth Annual Conference of SEATJ (Southeast Association of Teachers of Japanese) Proceedings:16-23.

 
 
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