Shoichi Iwasaki

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Shoichi Iwasaki is Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He received his first B.A. from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1974 and his second B.A. from International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan in 1977. He received his M.A. from University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California at Los Angeles in 1988. The institutions he taught include University of Adelaide (Australia), Thammasat University (Thailand), Nagoya Gakuin University (Japan), and UCLA (California). His research areas are Japanese linguistics, Thai linguistics, discourse analysis, functional linguistics, language change, sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, intonation, and minority language description (Ryukyu). His major publications include (i) Perspectives on topicalization: The case of Japanese wa. (co-edited with John Hinds and Senko K. Maynard), John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 1987, (ii) Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993, (iii) Japanese - London Oriental and African Language Library, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002, and (iv) A reference grammar of Thai (co-authored with Preeya Ingkaphirom), 2005.

Courses Taught at UCLA:

  • Japanese 1-2-3
  • Japanese M120
  • Japanese CM123

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