Satoko Suzuki
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Satoko Suzuki, DeWitt Wallace Professor of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, specializes in Japanese linguistics and teaches Japanese language and linguistics courses. The linguistics courses she has taught include “Language and Gender in Japanese Society,” “Language and Identity in Japanese, Asian American, and Other Communities,” and “Japanese Sociocultural Linguistics.”
Her research interests include discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. She is currently focusing her scholarly work on issues surrounding language and identity. She has edited Emotive Communication in Japanese (John Benjamins) and several special issues of journals, and authored a number of journal articles and book chapters. The journals in which her articles have appeared include Gender and Language, Contrastive Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, Japanese Studies, Japanese Language and Literature, East Asian Pragmatics, Studies in Language Sciences, and Linguistics.
Her most recent articles are “Paradox and Hope: Kenji Sawada, Superstar” (Contrastive Pragmatics) and “Finding One’s Voice and Sense of Belonging in US Academia” (Kanto Gakuin Keiei Gakkai Kenkyūron-shū).