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Shigeko Okamoto

Professor, Department of Linguistics

Phone: 559-278-4729 (office)
Fax: 559-278-7299 (office)
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Areas of Interest and Specialization

Sociolinguistics, language and gender, discourse analysis, semantics/pragmatics, Japanese linguistics, language pedagogy

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

M.A. in Linguistics California State University, Fresno

B.A. in English Literature Kyoto Prefectural University

Publications

Books

Okamoto, Shigeko and Janet Shibamoto Smith (eds.). 2004. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. Oxford University Press.

Ritva Laury, Gerald McMenamin, Shigeko Okamoto, Vida Samiian, and Subbarao (eds.). 2003. Papers in Honor of P.J. Mistry. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies.

Haruo Aoki and Shigeko Okamoto. 1988. Rules for Conversational Rituals in Japanese. Tokyo: Taishuukan.

Articles (since 1990)

Okamoto, Shigeko and Shie Sato. In press. Culture and Interactional Styles: The Interpretation of Reactive Tokens in Japanese Conversations. In Proceedings of the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2007. Kaiwa no naka no ÒhoogenÓ to ÒhyoojungoÓ (ÒRegional DialectsÓ and ÒStandard JapaneseÓ in conversations). Gengo (Language) 36(3), pp. 53-61.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2005. Variability in Japanese Discourse." In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Elsevier, pp. 319-326.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2005. Social Context, Linguistic Ideology, and Indexical Expressions in Japanese. Reprint of the Journal of Pragmatics (1997) article. In Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts (vol. 3), ed by N. Tsujimura. Routledge.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Janet Shibamoto Smith. 2004. Introduction. In Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. Oxford University Press, ed. by S. Okamoto and J. Shibamoto Smith, pp. 3-20.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2004. The Role of Ideology in Linguistic Analysis: Gender and Politeness in Japanese Revisited. In Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. Oxford University Press, pp. 38-56.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2003. Metonymy and Pragmatic Inference in the Functional Reanalysis of Grammatical Morphemes in Japanese. In Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, ed. by K. Pather and L. Thornburg. John Benjamins, pp. 205-220.

Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Shigeko Okamoto. 2003. The Construction of the Japanese Language and Culture in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. Japanese Language and Literature, 37(1), pp. 27-48.

Siegal, Meryl and Shigeko Okamoto. 2003. Toward Reconceptualizing the Teaching and Learning of Gendered Speech Styles in Japanese as a Foreign Language. Japanese Language and Literature, 37(1), pp. 49-66.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2003. The Role of Standard and Nonstandard Japanese in Conversations. In Papers in Honor of P.J. Mistry, ed. by R. Laury, G. McMenamin, S. Okamoto, V. Samiian and Subbarao. New Dehli: Indian Institute of Language Studies, pp. 297-310.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2002. Ideology and Social Meanings: Rethinking the Relationship between Language, Politeness, and Gender. In Gender Practices in Language, ed. by S. Benor, M. Rose, D. Sharma, J. Sweetland, and W. Zhang. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, pp. 91-113.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2001. Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferences in the Functional Reanalysis of Grammatical Morphemes: The Case of Complementizers in Japanese. In Cognition in Language Use: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, ed. by E. Nemeth. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, pp. 278-287.

Sato, Shie and Shigeko Okamoto. 1999. Reexamination of Japanese "Cooperative" Communication Styles. In Pragmatics in 1998: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, ed. by Jef Verschueren. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, pp. 518-527.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1999. Situated Politeness: Manipulating Honorific and Non-Honorific Expressions in Japanese Conversations. Pragmatics 8(2), pp. 51-74.

Sato, Shie and Shigeko Okamoto. 1998. A New Look at Japanese Communication Styles: (In-)Direct Speech and Turn-Management. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 195-206.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1998. The Use and Non-Use of Honorifics in Sales Talk in Kyoto and Osaka: Are They Rude or Friendly? Japanese/Korean Linguistics 7, pp. 141-157. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1997. Social Context, Linguistic Ideology, and Indexical Expressions in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 28(6), pp. 795-817.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1996. Indexical Meaning, Linguistic Ideology, and Japanese Women's Speech. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp.290-301.

Siegal, Meryl and Shigeko Okamoto. 1996. Imagined Worlds: Language, Gender, and Socio-Cultural "Norms" in Japanese Language Textbooks. Proceedings of the 4th Berkeley Women and Language Conference, pp. 667-678.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1996. Representations of Diverse Female Speech Styles in Japanese Popular Culture. Proceedings of the 4th Berkeley Women and Language Conference, pp. 575-587.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1995. "Tasteless" Japanese: Less "Feminine" Speech among Young Japanese Women. In Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self, ed. by K. Hall and M. Bucholtz. New York: Routledge, pp. 297-325.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1995. Pragmaticization of Meaning in Some Sentence-Final Particles in Japanese. In Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics. Festschrift for Charles Fillmore, ed. by M. Shibatani and S. A. Thompson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 219-246.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1994. Augmentative Verbal Repetitive Constructions in Japanese. Cognitive Linguistics 5-4, pp. 381-404.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1994. "Gendered" Speech Styles and Social Identity among Young Japanese Women. In Communication in, through, and across Cultures. Proceedings of the 3rd Berkeley Women and Language Conference, pp. 569-581.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1993. Nominal Repetitive Constructions in Japanese: The Tautology'Controversy Revisited. Journal of Pragmatics 20, pp. 433-466.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1993. Idiomatic Conditionals in Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 2. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, pp. 68-81.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1993. Analyzability of Idiomatic Constructions: The Case of Japanese Augmentative Expressions. In Papers in Honor of Frederick H. Fred Brengelman, ed. by J. Nevis, J. McMenamin, and G. Thurgood. CSU, Fresno, pp. 107-117.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Shie Sato. 1992. Less Feminine Speech among Young Japanese Females. In Locating Power: Proceedings of the 2nd Berkeley Women and Language Conference, pp. 478-488.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1991. Nominal Tautologies in Japanese: X wa X, X ga X, and X mo X." In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 218-229.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1990. "Reduplicated Verbs in Japanese as Grammatical Constructions." In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 248-256.

Presentations (since 2000)]

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2006. ÒRegional and Standard Japanese in Conversations.Ó Invited paper presented at the Asian Studies Lecture Series, Stanford University.

Chen, Wen-Ping and Shigeko Okamoto. 2006. ÒÕHowÕ and ÔWhyÕ Questions in the Study of Conversational Code-Switching Revisited: A Taiwanese Case Study.Ó Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Montreal, Canada.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2005. ÒVariation in the Use of "Regional" and "Standard" Japanese.Ó Invited paper presented at the Symposium on Written and Spoken Language, University of Kyoto, Japan.

Janet Shibamoto Smith and Shigeko Okamoto. 2005. "Constructing Linguistic Femininity in Contemporary Japan: Scholarly and Popular Representations. Paper presented as part of the panel on "The Construction of Japanese Women's Language: A Historical Perspective" at the 2005 International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Tsuyoshi Ono. 2005. "Quotative -tte in Japanese: Multifaceted Functions and Degrees of Subordination." Paper presented as part of the panel on "Pragmatics of Clause Combining" at the 2005 International Pragmatics Conference. Riva Del Garda, Italy.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2004. "The Use of "Regional" and "Standard" Variants in Japanese Conversations: Dialects as Reified Linguistic Systems." Invited paper presented at the Symposium on Functional Approaches to Japanese Grammar. Edmonton, Canada.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Janet Shibamoto Smith. 2004. "Standard Japanese in the Construction of Gendered Speech Norms." Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Portland. Oregon.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Shie Sato. 2003. "Rethinking the Relationship between "Culture" and Interactional Styles: The Interpretation of Reactive Tokens in Japanese Conversations." Invited paper presented at the 2003 Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. East Lansing, Michigan.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2002. "Speech-Style Shift: Negotiating between Regional (Osaka) and Standard Varieties of Japanese." Invited paper presented at the Symposium on Style Shifting in Japanese. Tucson, Arizona.

Okamoto, Shigeko and Meryl Siegal. 2001. "Expectations versus Realities: The Teaching of Gendered Speech Styles in Japanese as a Foreign Language." Paper presented as part of the panel on Critical Perspectives on Japanese Culture and Language at the 2002 ACTFL Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2000. "Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferences in the Functional Reanalysis of Japanese Grammatical Morphemes." Paper presented as part of the panel on Metonymy and Pragmatic Inference at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2000. "Rethinking the Relationship between Language, Politeness, and Gender." Paper presented at the 1st International Gender and Language Conference. Stanford, California.

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2000. "The Role of Standard and Nonstandard Japanese in Conversations." Paper presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Vancouver, Canada.

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