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Japanese Ph.D. Dissertations

Japanese Ph.D. Dissertations

2025

Hattori, Yuki (Professor (Professor JJ Nakayama) 2025
The Effect of Working Memory and Structural Complexity in L2 Japanese Speech
 

2024

Kumiko, Takizawa (Professor Mari Noda) 2024
Negotiating Stances in Japanese Discussions: Stancetaking Strategies by Native Speakers and Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language
 

2022

Ying, Zhang (Professor Mari Noda) 2022
Going Beyond Words: 'Request' Activities in Constructing Japanese Workplace Personae

Lindsey, Stirek (Professor Naomi Fukumori) 2022
Manga Afterlives of Ogura hyakunin isshu: The Case of Chihayafuru.
 

2021

John, Bundschuh (Professor Charles Quinn) 2021
Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Creation of Narrative Structure: Early Heian Japanese Translations of Sinitic Buddhist Texts.
 

2019

Hannah, Dahlberg-Dodd  (Professor Charles Quinn) 2019
Social Meaning in Virtual Space: Sentence-final expressions in the Japanese popular mediascape

Mason, Thomas  (Profs. Xiaobin Jian, Mari Noda) 2019
An Analysis of the Decline in Long-Term Study Abroad Participation Among Students at Elite U.S. Universities, with a Focus on Japan

Tobaru, Hiromi (Professor Mari Noda) 2019
Style Shifting and Social Network Development during Education Abroad Programs in Japan.

Nozaki, Saori (Professor Etsuyo Yuasa) 2019
Japanese Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events and its Acquisition of Advanced-level English-speaking Learners of Japanese.
 

2018

Shelton, Abby (Professor Mari Noda) 2018 
Japanese native perceptions of the facial expressions of American learners of L2 Japanese in specified contexts.

Del Greco, Robert (Professor Richard Torrance) 2018 
Democratic Korea: Expatriate Koreans in Japan Write Against Empire.

Yi, Yongfei (Professor Richard Torrance) 2018
Building a Literary Bridge and Reconstructing Culture in Postwar Japan: Takeda Taijun and His Chūgoku Mono (China-related Writings)
 

2017

Yao, Kanako (Professor Mari Noda) 2017
Effectiveness of Excuses in Japanese Business Context: Accounts as Conflict-Management Strategies

Vorobiev, Artem (Professor Richard Torrance) 2017
The Literature of Shibata Renzaburō and a New Perspective on Nihilism in Postwar Japan, 1945 – 1978
 

2016

Curtin, Karen (Professor Mari Noda) 2016
Negotiating politeness in PCA Intermediate Japanese language classes: A microethnographic constructionist exploration of Japanese politeness behaviors

Tsuchiya, Shinsuke (Professor Charles Quinn) 2016
Perceptions of Native and Nonnative Speakers and Observational Analysis of “Divergent” Japanese Language Teachers in Context

Francis-Ratte, Alexander (Professor Charles Quinn, Professor James M Unger) 2016
Proto-Korean-Japanese: A New Reconstruction of the Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages
 

2015

Goss, Seth (Professor, JJ Nakayama) 2015
The Effects of Internal and Experience-Based Factors on the Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent by Native and Nonnative Japanese Listeners
 

2014

Pimental, Carlos (Professor, JJ Nakayama) 2014
 
Kern, Chris (Professor Naomi Fukumori) 2014
 
 

2010

Inamoto, Masako (Professor Richard Torrance) 2010
 

2010

Yu, Ying (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2010
 

2009

Itomitsu, Masayuki (Prof. Mari Noda) 2009
 
Chino, Noriko (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2009
 

2008

Savas, Minae (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 2008
 
Li, Minggang (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2008
 
Horn, Stephen (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2008
 

2007

Ananth, Priya (Prof. Mari Noda) 2007 
 
Sawasaki, Koichi (Prof. Mineharu, Nakayama) 2007
 

2004

Filler, Stephen (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2004
 
Yip, Shing Chi (Leo) (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 2004
 
Angles, Jeffrey (Prof. William Tyler) 2004
 
Eda, Sanae (Prof. Mari Noda) 2004
 

2003

Omori, Kyoko (Prof. William Tyler) 2003
 

2002

Tangeman, Michael (Prof. William Tyler) 2002
 

2001

Hirata, Yu (Prof. Charles Quinn) 2001
 
Squires, Todd (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 2001
 

2000

Langton, Scott Charles (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2000
 
Okutsu, Yuko (Prof. Charles Quinn) Summer, 2000
 

1999 

Kagaya, Shinko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1999
 
Sode, Rumiko (Prof. Mineharu. Nakayama) 1999
 

1998

Williams, Junko (Prof. William Tyler) Spring 1998
 

1997

Reider, Noriko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1997
 
Yotsukura, Lindsay (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997
 
Zheng, Guohe (Prof. William Tyler) 1997
 

1996

Warnick, Paul J. (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996
 

1994

Butler, Hiroko Yamashita (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1994

 

1993

Aikawa, Takako (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1993