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DrYoko Yonezawa

Lecturer in Japanese Studies

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Lecturer in Japanese Studies
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Proposals welcome

  • Japanese linguistics (pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology)
  • Comparative studies of Japanese and East Asian languages
  • Students interested in conducting postgraduate research related to Yoko's research areas are welcome to contact her directly.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    Language, gender, and power in Japanese politics: A linguistic analysis (Monograph Project)
    2026
    Project leaders:
    • Yonezawa Y
  • PROJECT
    二人称の言語学 [Linguistics of second person reference] (Monograph Project)
    2026
    Project leaders:
    • Yonezawa Y
  • PROJECT
    Comparative studies of Japanese and East Asian languages
    The University of QueenslandWestern Sydney University2025
    Project leaders:
    • Yonezawa Y,
    • Lee N,
    • Liu X
  • PROJECT
    Intercultural Collaborative Learning: Enhancing Japanese Language Learning Experience and Outcomes
    Tohoku University2025
    Project leaders:
    Collaborators:
    This project is supported by The University of Sydney's "Education Focused Academic's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) grant 2025"
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Killer bods blades and ninjas too (Electric Boogaloo ) Performative bodies spectatorship and Japanese sociocultural influence in the sword action B movie genre.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Synchronic variation in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction: A corpus-based study of ‘sasete itadaku’
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Translational Reading: Analysing Japanese Literature Through Translation