Assistant Professor
World Languages & Cultures

Michiko Kaneyasu

4053 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, (2012)

Expertise

Asia
Japan

Articles

Kaneyasu, M. (2023). Formulaicity and contexts: A multimodal analysis of the Japanese utterance-final tteyuu. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 39 (1) , pp. 15-36.
Kaneyasu, M. (2022). Multimodal strategies for balancing formality and informality: The role of kaomoji in online comment-reply interactions. Internet Pragmatics 5 (1) , pp. 143-164.
Kaneyasu, M. (2021). Expectations for ‘natural’ ways of talking: A context-dependent perspective on fixedness in conversation. Discourse Studies 23 (1) , pp. 28-45.
Kaneyasu, M. (2021). In pursuit of alignment and affiliation: The practice of anchoring shared knowledge in Japanese conversation. Discourse Processes 58 (2) , pp. 93-112.
Kaneyasu, M. and Kuhara, M. (2020). Dimensions of recipe register and native speaker knowledge: Observations from a writing experiment. Pragmatics 30 (4) , pp. 534-559.
Kaneyasu, M. (2020). Interactional relevance of linguistic categories: epistemic modals daroo and deshoo in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 155 , pp. 145-159.
Kaneyasu, M. and Kuhara, M. (2020). Regularity and variation in Japanese recipes: A comparative analysis of cookbook, online, and user-generated sub-registers. Register Studies 2 (1) , pp. 37-71.
Kaneyasu, M. (2019). The family of Japanese no-wa cleft construction: A register-based analysis. Lingua 217 , pp. 1-23.
Kaneyasu, M. and Iwasaki, S. (2017). Indexing ‘entrustment’: An analysis of the Japanese formulaic construction, [N da yo N]. Discourse Studies 19 (4) , pp. 402-421.
Kaneyasu, M. (2015). Stance taking in Japanese newspaper discourse: The use and non-use of copulas da and dearu. Text & Talk 35 (2) , pp. 207-236.
Ajioka, M., Kaneyasu, M., Kawanishi, Y. and Iwasaki, S. (2014). Mikan yo mikan: Formulaic constructions and their implicature in conversation. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 21 , pp. 199-213.

Book Chapters

Kaneyasu, M. and Iwasaki, S. (2017). 多重文法:「こと」の分析を通して (Multiple grammar: An analysis of ‘koto’) 話しことばへのアプローチ:創発的・学際的談話研究への新たなる挑戦 (Innovative Approaches to Spoken Discourse: Emergent, Interdisciplinary and Beyond) (pp. 69-99) Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo Publishing.
Kaneyasu, M. (2013). Grammar and interactional discourse: Marking non-topical subject in Japanese conversation New Perspectives on Japanese Language Learning, Linguistics, and Culture (pp. 123-144) Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Languages Resource Center.
  • 2014: Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching, Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
  • 2012: The George and Sakaye Aratani Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 2011: The Sasakawa Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 2008: Graduate Research Mentorship Award, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)