Junko Mori

Language:

Japanese

Areas of Expertise:

Japanese Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Sociolinguistics

Education:

Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:

Professor Mori’s research interests have evolved over the years. Her earlier focus was on multimodal, moment-by-moment microanalysis of meaning-making processes observed in video-recorded social interactions involving first- and second-language speakers of Japanese. In recent years, the scope of her research has expanded to address issues concerning diversity and inclusion in the language classroom, multilingual workplaces, and the professional community of language educators.

She is a recipient of the ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education and a past president of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese. She currently serves as an editorial panel member for Applied Linguistics and Modern Language Journal and is the chair of the Global Network of Japanese Language Education, which consists of 12 affiliated organizations worldwide.

Selected Books and Special Issues:

Suzuki, S., and Mori, J. (eds.). (2022). Special Section: Our challenges and triumphs: Female Asian faculty in leadership positions in U.S. colleges and universities. Japanese Language and Literature, 56(1).

Mori, J., and Hasegawa, A. (eds.). (2020). Special Section: Exploring who we are and who we aspire to be: Diversity, inclusion and professionalism in Japanese language education. Japanese Language and Literature, 54 (2).

Hudson, M. E., Matsumoto, Y. and Mori, J. (eds.) (2018). Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on Grammar, Interaction, and Culture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mori, J. and Ohta, A. S. (eds.) (2008). Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives. London: Continuum.

Mori, J. (1999). Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective Expressions and Turn Construction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

Jun, H., and Mori, J. (2024). Behind the jovial translingual displays: Negotiation of power and job security among transnational workers. In S. Dovchin, R. Oliver and Li Wei (eds.), Translingual Practices: Playfulness and Precariousness, 43–61.

Mori, J., and Tanaka, H. (2023). 会話分析におけるデータ記述法 [Data transcription in conversation analysis]. In K. Yakazaki, H. Hama, T. Komiya, H. Tanaka, R. Kawashima, K. Ikeda, A. Yamazaki, and N. Ikeya (eds.), エスノメソドロジー・会話分析ハンドブック [Handbook of Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis], 160–172. Tokyo: Shiyosha.

Mori, J. (2023). Teaching and learning of East Asian languages in the era of ‘trans-’. In N. Chikamatsu Chandler and J. Li (eds.), A transdisciplinary approach to Chinese and Japanese language teaching, 19–37. New York: Routledge.

Mori, J., and Shima, C. (2023). Co-construction of professional competence by Japanese and international care workers. In K. Tsuchiya, F. Coffey, and K. Nakamura (eds.), Multimodal approaches to healthcare communication research: Visualizing interactions for resilient healthcare in the UK and Japan, 101–121. London: Bloomsbury.

Mori, J. (2021). Between researchers and practitioners: possibilities and challenges for applied conversation analysis. In S. Kunitz, N. Markee, and O. Sert (Eds.), Classroom-based conversation analytic research, 407–415. Berlin: Springer.

Mori, J., and Shima, C. (2021). Person reference and recognition in shift handovers: An analysis of interactions between Japanese and international care workers. Multilingua, 40(1), 33–65.

Mori, Y., Hasegawa, A., and Mori, J. (2021). The trends and developments of L2 Japanese research in the 2010s. Language Teaching, 54(1), 90–127.

Mori, J., and Shima, C. (2020). Text, talk and body in shift handover interaction: Language and multimodal repertoires for geriatric care work. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24, 593–612.

Mori, J., and Nguyen, H. t. (2019). Conversation Analysis in L2 pragmatics research. In N. Taguchi (ed.), Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and pragmatics, 226–240. New York: Routledge.

Mori, J. and Sanuth, K. K. (2018). “Navigating between a monolingual utopia and translingual realities: Experiences of American learners of Yoruba as an additional language.” Applied Linguistics, 39(1), 78-89.

Mori, J. and Matsunaga, Y. (2017). “Becoming a conversationalist at the dinner table: Topic management by a JFL learner living in foreign language housing.” In M. Ishida, Y. Tateyama, and T. Greer (eds.), Interactional Competence in Japanese as an Additional Language (pp. 293-332). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i, National Foreign Language Resource Center.

Mori, J., Imamura, A., and Shima, C. (2017). “Epistemic management in the material world of workplace: A study of nursing shift handovers at a Japanese geriatric healthcare faculity.” Journal of Pragmatics, 109: 64-81.

Mori, J. and Takeuchi, J. (2016). “Campus diversity and global education: A case study of a Japanese program.” Foreign Language Annals, 49(1), 146-161.

Mori, J. and Yanagimachi, T. (2015). “Artifacts, gestures, and dispensable speech: Multimodality in teaching and learning of a biology  laboratory technique.” In D. Koike & C. Blyth (eds.), Dialogue in Multilingual, Multimodal Communities (p.221-251). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

森 純子. (2015). 言いさしの事例から考える「文」と「行為」─日本語学習者は何を学ぶのか─ 『日本語学』６月号. 38-50.

Mori, J. and Shima, C. (2014). “Co-construction of “doctorable” conditions in multilingual medical encounters: cases from urban Japan.” Applied Linguistics Review 5(1): 45-72.

Mori, J. (2014). “The reexamination of so-called ‘clefts’:  A study of multiunit turns in Japanese talk-in-interaction.”  In K. Kabata, and T. Ono. (eds.). Usage-Based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the Understanding of Human Language. Amsterdam John Benjamins, pp. 193-222.

Selected Courses:

1st-8th Semester Japanese

Business Japanese Communication

Japanese Applied Linguistics

Language in Japanese Society

Studies in Japanese Linguistics

Seminar in Japanese Linguistics