Faculty Profile: Matt Burdelski

Background

Education:

  • 2006 Ph.D., UCLA

  • 1996 M.A., University of Oregon

  • 1990 B.A., University of Michigan

 

Teaching and research interests:

Japanese language socialization; conversation analysis, Japanese anime and manga; Japanese language and pedagogy; technology (e.g. robots) and Japanese communication; gender

Selected publications:

“She says you’re kawaii”: Socializing affect, gender, and relationships in a Japanese preschool. Language in Society 39(1) (with K Mitsuhashi) (to appear, February 2010).

Socializing politeness routines. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs & B. B. Schieffelin (eds.), Handbook of Language Socialization. Blackwell-Wiley Publishers (to appear).

Coordinating verbal and non-verbal actions in human-robot action at museums and exhibitions. Journal of Pragmatics. (with A. Yamazaki, K. Yamazaki, Y. Kuno & M. Fukushima) (to appear).

'Kawaii onna no ko' wa ika ni shite kanô ka-- hoikushi to kodomo no sôgô kôi bunseki. [How is a “Kawaii Girl” possible?: A view from a Japanese nursery room) Kokuritsu josei kyôiku jaanaru dai 13 gô. [Journal of the National Women’s Education Center of Japan 13]. (with K. Mitsuhashi) (2009).

Close- and open-ended narratives of personal experience: Weekly meetings among a supervisor and teaching assistants of a “Japanese language education practicum.” Linguistics and Education 15(1-2), 3-32 (2004).

Selected Grants and Awards:

Fulbright-Hays (2006)
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2005)
Sasakawa Fellowship (2004)
Hamako Ito Chaplin (2004)
Aurora, Japanese Language Scholarship (2003)
Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) (1999-2000)

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