Judit Kroo
Asst Professor, Modern Japanese Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures
Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars
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851 S Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Kroo's research seeks to understand how linguistic communities form and how the social meanings that we attach to linguistic variables change over time with a special focus on Japanese and Korean. Using methodologies from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, she investigates the formation of alternative linguistic communities under conditions of post-disaster, including socioeconomic, and socioecological disasters.
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2017
M.St., Oxford University, 2011
Research Interests
Japanese, Korean, Micropolitics, Interactional Semiosis, Youth, Climate Activism
Publications
Books
- (2021). As Co-Editor w. Kyoko Satoh, Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese. Palgrave Macmillan.
- (Current Book Project). A Life More Ordinary: Post-Neoliberalism and the Quest for the Personal in Contemporary Japan and Korea.
Journal Articles
- (Forthcoming). Debating otherwheres: Enregisterment, Okinawa and the ideology of dialect.
- (Forthcoming). Disaster dreamland: The spatiotemporality of post-disaster Fukushima communities. Anthropology News.
- (2023). Ya sekki ‘Hey dude!’: affective stance and the mediatized use of Korean second person address markers. East Asian Pragmatics.
- (2023). Remaking futsuu 'ordinary' in the discourse of younger Japanese adults. Language and Communication.
- (2022). With Ilana Gershon. New Media and Labor. Oxford Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
- (2022). The Cultural Logic of the Ordinary: Interactional Semiosis and the (Re)-Framing of Daily Life among Japanese Younger Adults. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
- (2022). Negotiating identities: First person pronominal use between Japanese university students. Pragmatics and Society.
- (2021). Discourses of Anticipatory Futures among Japanese Younger adults. Language, Discourse and Society.
- (2021). Discourse (Re)-framing: Indirect resistance to becoming a shakaijin `fully socialized adult' in contemporary Japan. Language, Culture and Society.
- (2020). K-Pop idols in Japan: The translation of Korean masculinities in music video. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 6(1), 27-43. DOI: 10.1386_0013_1
- (2018). With Yoshiko Matsumoto. The case of Japanese otona `adult': Mediatized gender as a marketing device. Discourse and Communication 12(4), 401 - 423.
- (2018). 'Herbivore Men' and Interlocutor Constructed Language. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28(2), 253 - 282.
- (2015). Analyzing the force of pragmatic particles in actual use. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 9.
- (2014). Alternative masculinities: Sooshokukei-danshi ``herbivore men" and first person pronoun usage. Journal and Proceedings of the Gender Awareness in Language Education Special Interest Group 7, 5-29.
Book Chapters
- (Forthcoming). The spatio-temporality of desire: Younger Japanese women's use of Instagram. Routledge Handbook of Social Media.
- (Forthcoming). As Contributor with Yoshiko Matsumoto. From the peripheries of adulthood: Deconstructing culturally-expected identities of age categories. John Benjamins
Translations
- (2020). The inherent stylistic grammar of manga [Koyuu no hyoogen bunpoo]. Author: Natsume, Fusanosuke. In Toku, Masami and Dollase, Hiromi (Eds.) MANGA!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education.
Manuscripts Under Review and In Prep
- Elegies for the Future: The Remaking of Ordinary Life in Japan in a Time of Disaster
- Bivalent Japanese modernities: Feminine linguistic styles of late-bubble trendy dramas.
Research Activity
2023 - 2024 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant ($111, 967)
Courses
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
JPN 592 | Research |
JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
JPN 599 | Thesis |
JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
JPN 494 | Special Topics |
JPN 598 | Special Topics |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
JPN 592 | Research |
JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
JPN 599 | Thesis |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
JPN 115 | Japanese Popular Culture |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
JPN 115 | Japanese Popular Culture |
SLC 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
JPN 309 | Japanese Oral Communication I |