Associate Professor, Japanese Director of Japanese Language and Pedagogy Ph.D., 1985, Michigan phone: (541) 346-4004 email: fujiin@oregon.uoregon.edu

Interests:

Language use and change, discourse and grammar, interactional linguistics, syntactic change and grammaticalization, sociolinguistics (especially, synchronic variation and its relationship to language change and internal and external factors in language change), Japanese linguistics (especially grammar including the use of particles) and Japanese language teaching.

In addition to linguistics research, I have been involved in the development of Japanese language programs and teacher training programs. I have worked on various curriculum and materials development and assessment projects. My current interest in this area is the application of linguistic research especially that of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics to teaching.

Selected Publications:

Aozora: Intermediate - Advanced Communication (With Hiroko Sugawara). National Foreign Language Resource Center, The University of Hawai'i, 2003.

"The Occurrence and Non-occurrence of the Japanese Direct Object Marker o in Japanese Conversation." (with Tsuyoshi Ono) Studies in Language 24:1 (2000): 1-39.

"An Oral Interview Procedure for Assessing Second Language Abilities in Children" (With Kathie Carpenter and Hiroko Kataoka), in Alan Davies and John Upshur (eds.) Language Testing 12: 2 (1995): 157-181.

Historical Discourse Analysis: Grammatical Subject in Japanese (1991).

"The Functions of the Theme Marker wa from the Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives," in Perspectives on Topicalization: The Case of Japanese wa, eds. S. Hinds, Iwasaki, and S. Maynard. Amsterdam: Benjamins Press, 1987, 221-263.