JPN LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

1) Introduction to Sociolinguistics and relevant concepts; 2) Skills to conduct sociolinguistic skills; 3) Topics in Japanese sociolinguistics, including dialects, politeness & honorifics, evidentials, and L2 education.

That honorifics are way more complex than indicating just politeness, how to analyze and critique research in linguistics, how to create linguistic experiments, how to teach Japanese language

1. I learned a lot more about the linguistic portion of the Japanese language. 2. I learned how linguistic journals are written about another language in English (which is super helpful if one wants to study another language but publish in the U.S.) 3. I learned how to skim, summarize, and find research gaps in current papers, which allowed me to gain some skills that would be necessary as a future linguist.

critical evaluation of academic literature, understanding of linguistic pragmatics and nuances in language usage under different contexts, designing research and experimental methods

Learned what the field of linguistics is and about the history/current state of research in Japanese linguistics, learned how to identify problems in studies, as well as how to think about and design good studies for the future, learned more about differences between native Japanese speakers and learners as well as identified unconscious/conscious choices these learners make, conducted a study in the field of Japanese linguistics and learned how to deal with problems in study design, research, and data.