Japanese M.A.

Areas of concentration

Chinese

Japanese

Recent Theses and Dissertations
Chinese M.A.
Chinese Ph.D.
Japanese M.A.
Japanese Ph.D.

Roster: Name, (Advisor), Year of Completion, Dissertation Title

2000's

Shelton, Abigail (Prof. Etsuyo Yuasa) 2007

An Analysis of the Particle WA in Japanese Narrative Discourse.

Huang, Junliang (Prof. William Tyler) 2007

Tachibana Sotoo: The Forgotten Writer From the "Outside"

Luft, Stephen (Prof. Mari Noda) 2007

Language Classroom Risk-Taking Behavior in a Performed Culture-Based Program.

Kern, Chris (Prof. Naomi Fukumori) 2007

The Narrative Structure of the Embedded Tales in the "Hahakigi" Chapter of the Genji Monogatari

Morioka, Hiroko (Prof. Etsuyo Yuasa) 2006

Corpus-Based Analysis of Verbal Noun Predicates

Leader-Hastorun, Francesca (Prof. William Tyler) 2006

Beauty and the Beast: Nostalgia, Consumption, and the Shojo in the Works of Yoshimoto Banana

Yu, Ying (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2005

An Introduction to Shibusauwa Tatsuhiko and His World of the Imagination

Kashiwagi, Akiko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2003

Case Deletion in Japanese as a Foreign Language

Sisley, Etsuko (Prof. Mari Noda) 2003

Itadaite and Kudasatte in Expressions of Gratitude: Analysis and Pedagogical Implications

Inamoto, Masako (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2002

Reconstruction of Childhood in Naka Kansuke's Gin No Saji

Yamamoto, Hiroshi (Prof. Mari Noda) 2002

Native Speakers' Evaluation of Nonnative Speakers' Utterances Containing Intra-Prosodic Errors in Japanese

Li, Minggang (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2001

Kikuchi Kan's Literary Ideas and Practice

Sakurai, Yuki (Prof. Mari Noda) 2001

Conflict Negotiation as an Interactional Process: Starting and Ending the Performance of Conflict Negotiation in Japanese

Kato, Michiko (Prof. Mari Noda) 2000

Teaching teh Concept of Tatemae to English-Speakers

1990's

Hobbs, Ayanna (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1999

Phallic Power of African American Men: A Study in Japanese Literature (1930-Present)

Kumakura, Akihiko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1999

An Analysis of the Evolution of Japanese Waka Poetics in the Heian Period: Transformation from Private to Public

Nagatomi, Ayumi (Prof. Mari Noda) 1999

Pedagogical Implications of Negative Questions in Japanese

Matsumura, Misako (Prof. William Tyler) 1998

Abe Tomoji: Japanese Modernist Novelist as Social Critic and Humanist, The Early Years (1925-1936)

Savas, Minae (Prof. Shelley Quinn) Autumn 1998

The Image of the Yujo (Japanese Prostitute/Entertainer in a Selection of Medieval Texts with a Focus on the No Play Eguchi

Angles, Jeffrey (Prof. William Tyler) 1997

Poésie, Penisism, and the Great Beyond: The Longer, Early Works of Takahashi Mutsuo

Filler, Stephen (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1997

Hasegawa Nyozekan: The Pedagogical Value of Fiction for a Political Philosopher

Onoe, Atsushi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1997

Functions of Ne and Its Uses By Learners

Shibata, Chihaya (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997

A Honorific Predication In Early Middle Japanese: A Critical Survey With Examples From the Ookagami

Suzuki, Misako (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997

Refusing Requests in Japanese: Analysis and Pedagogical Implications

Tangeman, Michael (Prof. William Tyler) 1997

Altered Perception in the Modernist Fiction of Edogawa Ranpo

Tsujimoto, Yoko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997

A Unified Account of the Japanese Demonstratives Ko-, So-, And A-

Yip, Shing Chi (Leo) (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1997

China to Japan, Zeami to Zenchiku: A Study of the Noh Play Yokihi

Eda, Sanae (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996

A Synthesis of Memory Theories and Pedagogy: Teaching Pronunciation in Japanese as a Foreign Language

Itomitsu, Masayuki (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996

Developing Japanese Skills Test: Theoretical Framework for a Standardized Proficiency Test

Omori, Kyoko (Prof. William Tyler) 1996

Problems in English Translation of Japanese Literature: A Study of Natsume Soseki's Botchan and Kokoro

Terashima, Misako (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996

The Perceived Strengths and Weaknesses of Base-Native and Target-Native Japanese Language Teachers: Compensating for Weaknesses

Yamaguchi, Asako (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996

Meeting the Demand for Advanced Japanese: Designing Curricula for Advanced Learners of Japanese

Arlauckas, Regina (Prof. Mari Noda) 1995

Guidelines for the Evaluation and Development of Computer Delivered Instruction for the Japanese Language

Mannion, Patrick (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1995

A Quest for Spiritual Fulfillment by a Modern Japanese Writer/Playwright: Kurata Hyakuzo and Japanese Religion

Rice, Martha (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1995

Murakami Haruki: The Problem of Genre

Takahashi, Sonoko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1995

On the Interrogative Marker KA in Japanese

Williams, Junko Ikezu (Prof. William Tyler) 1994

Aeroplanes, Bodhisattvas, and Boys: Fragments from the Modernist Prose of Inagaki Taruho

Morii, Azusa (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1993

The Acquisition of NI by Japanese Children

Wright, Margaret Zollinger (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1993

Nagai Kafu Discovers America

Yoon, Kyungah (Prof. Mari Noda) 1993

Japanese and Korean Donatory Verbs: A Functional Analysis for Teaching Japanese to Korean Students

Zheng, Guohe (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1993

Source Material for a Noh Play: Zeami's Theory and Practice

Kawabe, Jun (Prof. Mari Noda) 1992

Listener's Role and Conversational Strategies in Japanese Discourse: An Analysis of Repetition

Langton, Scott Charles (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1992

The Works of Nakajima Atsushi: War is War and Literature is Literature

Okutsu, Yuko (Prof. Yoshiko Matsumoto) 1992

Functions of Yahari/Yappari

Sadakane, Kumi Joy (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1992

On the Nature of NI

Hitchcock, Lori (Prof. James Morita) 1991

The Works of Akutagawa Ryunosuki: Lectures on Poe and Their Applications

Hoshino, Takane (Prof. Mari Noda) 1991

An Analysis of HOSII in Modern Spoken Japanese

Inden, Kumiko (Prof. James Morita) 1991

Tanizaki Jun'Ichiro's Search for Mother

Kagaya, Shinko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1991

The Creation of the Central Image in the Course of a No Performance

Koizumi, Masatoshi (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1991

Syntax of Adjuncts and the Phrase Structure of Japanese

Minami, Aiko (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1991

MURO SAISEI The Evolution of a Lyrical Poet

Takahashi, Kenji (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1991

The Development of Takahama Kyoshi's Sketch-from-Life Prose

Uchida, Yoshiko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1991

Verbal Noun Constructions in Japanese

Horii, Kasumi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1990

GA/NO Conversion and Japanese Sentence Processing

Kawamura, Madoka (Prof. James Morita) 1990

Japanese Influence on American Children's Literature: 1880-1989

Ogino, Megumi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1990

An Analysis of SAE

Reider, Noriko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1990

Evolution of the Jo-Ha-Kyu Principle in Zeami's Theatre

1980's

Butler, Hiroko (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1989

Bridge & Non-Bridge Verb Asymmetries in Japanese

Kataoka, Yukio (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1989

Toward Japanese Spoken Narrative

Nishimura-Valentine, Naomi (Prof. Leon Serafim) 1989

Omoro: the Correlation of Structure and Tune in an Ancient Ryukyuan Song Form

Okada, Hisami (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1989

Analysis of Two Types of Potential Construction in Japanese

Ray, Yuko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1989

Unity in Variety: Family Resemblance in the Use of Japanese NO

Tokashiki, Kyoko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1989

On Japanese Coordinate Structures: An Investigation Structurel Differences Between the -I Form

Fujita, Naoya (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1988

The Genitive Subject in Japanese and Universal Grammar

Fukuda, Akira (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1988

Syntactic Placement of Japanese Mimetic Words as Adjectival Nouns and Deaccentuation

Ogawa, Takashi (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1988

Chronological and Retroactive Intertextuality in The Tale of The Heike and Zeami's "Tadanori"

Osawa, Yumiko (Prof. Leon Serafim) 1988

The Usage of the Japanese First-Person Pronominals in Modern Fiction

Takeda, Fumiko (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1988

Utamakura in the Narrow Road to the Deep North

Moore, Sara (Prof. James Morita) 1987

Ideal Collaboration in "The Life of Gusco Budori": The Relationship Between Religion and Science in Kenji's Ideology

Nakamura, Mari (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1987

Some Observations on Antecedent-Consequent Constructions in Japanese: A Pragmatic Study of KARA and NO DE

Nemoto, Naoko (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1987

The Parallelism Between Relativization and Thematization: A Study of the Arqument-Adjunct Distinction in Japanese

Oshiro, Tokiko (Prof. Serafim Leon) 1987

Aspects of Semantic Change in Honorific Verbs of the Okinawan Language

Scherzer, Caroline (Prof. Yung Hee Kwon) 1987

Setouchi Harumi: The Continuing Essay Tradition in Japanese Literature

Tanouchi, Aki (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1987

The Renga Techniques and Their Effects in the Kanginshu

Yoshida, Tomoyuki (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1986

Morphology and Case Assignment in Japan

Zenno, Yasushi (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1985

The Paradigmatic Structure and Japanese Idioms

Smith, Akiko (Prof. Miles McElrath) 1984

The Homosexual Theme in Medieval Japanese Fiction with an Annotated Translation of a Representative Tale: Toribeyama Monogatari

Talcroft, Colin (Prof. James Morita) 1984

The Same Melody in Another Key: The Metamorphosis of Ideas in the Short Stories and Major Novels of Abe Kobo

Kato, Miyoko (Prof. James Morita) 1983

A Study of A Night on the Galaxy Railway as a Fantasy

Aikawa, Takako (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1982

The Prenominal Modifier Construction in Japanese

1970's

LaCure, Jon (Prof. James Morita) 1977

"Machine", "Bird", and "Time", A Critical Analysis of Three Short Stories from Yokomitsu Riichi's Shinshinri Shugi Period