Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Ph.D.

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Fall 2005

Courses::Papers and Publications::Research Interests::Professional Associations:: Curriculum Vitae

Courses ::

• Course 1
• Course 2
• Course 3

Papers and Publications ::

 2002   “Uwaki tte iu no wa attemo ii n janai ka?”:  Japanese men’s conversations up-close and personal.  (“It’s alright to have a mistress/affair, isn’t it?”), Japanese Studies 22(1):  49-63.

2004      Students, Sarariiman (pl.), and Seniors:  Japanese men’s use of “manly” speech register. Language in Society 33:  81-107.

2004      Japanese Men’s Linguistic Stereotypes and Realities:  Conversations from the Kansai and Kanto regions in Okamoto, S. and (Shibamoto)Smith, J. (eds.) Japanese Language, Gender,and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, Oxford University Press.

 Accepted     'I Read the Nikkei Too': Crafting Positions of Authority and Masculinity in a Japanese Conversation submitted to the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

To Appear  (2006)    Gentlemanly Gender?  Japanese Men’s Politeness in Casual Conversations, Journal of Sociolinguistics.

Research Interests ::

Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology

Language Ideology

Masculinity

Japan

My research interests lie in the areas of language and gender, language and culture, masculinity, discourse analysis, language ideology, and Japan. My dissertation research (read the abstract at dissertation abstract) focused on two closely related areas of research: perceived versus real language use and gender ideology with an emphasis on the male speaking subject. My field site is the general Kansai area of Japan but specifically includes men from the cities of Osaka, Yao, Kobe, and Nishinomiya.

Future plans include 1)  collecting supporting ethnographic textual material regarding men's discourse practices; 2) collecting a matching account of female Kansai dialect speakers so as to allow for comparison across male/female linguistic practices. 

Professional Associations ::

American Anthropological Association

Association for Asian Studies

Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Association of Teachers of Japanese