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karatsu@arizona.edu
Phone
(520) 621-5475
Office
Learning Services Building 130
Karatsu, Mariko
Associate Professor

Dr. Karatsu’s research addresses topics in the fields of Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics.  In particular, she is interested in Narrative Study, Study of Conversational Storytelling, Presentation of Identities/ Selves, Grammar in Interaction, and Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.  Recently, she conducts research on Instruction and Understanding as well as research on Small Stories in Instructional Interaction. Her research is empirical and qualitative analyses of naturally occurring conversational interaction from multi modal perspective.  Her goal is to be inter-disciplinary across Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, and Social Psychology.  

She received her BA in Aesthetics and History of Art (Asian Art History) and BA in Law (Political Science) from Keio University, her MA in Japanese Linguistics from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and her PhD in Japanese Linguistics from University of Minnesota. She is an affiliated faculty member in the interdisciplinary graduate program of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT).

Teaches Japanese Language and Linguistics Courses:

JPN 411/511 (Introduction to Japanese Linguistics)

JPN 412/512 (Advanced Japanese Linguistics: "Grammar and Interaction in Japanese Conversation")

JPN 496c/596c (Topics in Japanese Linguistics)

JPN 422/522 (Advanced Practice in Japanese Language)

Currently Teaching

JPN 412 – Advanced Japanese Linguistics

Advanced readings in Japanese and English on specific topics in Japanese linguistics.

JPN 422 – Advanced Practice in Japanese

Reading and discussion in Japanese of a variety of advanced-level materials, including newspaper articles, short stories, and poetry.

JPN 512 – Advanced Japanese Linguistics

Advanced readings in Japanese and English on specific topics in Japanese linguistics. Graduate-level requirements include a substantial term paper and a class presentation based on that paper.

JPN 522 – Advanced Practice in Japanese

Reading and discussion in Japanese of a variety of advanced-level materials, including newspaper articles, short stories, and poetry. Graduate-level requirements include extra readings and extra translation project.

JPN 411 – Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

Phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of the Japanese language.

JPN 511 – Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

Phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics of the Japanese language. Graduate-level requirements include a substantial term paper and a class presentation based on that paper.

JPN 593 – Internship

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.