Ayumi Inouchi

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• “Koreaish: Aesthetics, Qualia, and Sensory Emergence of Korea among Japanese Young Women,” Signs and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Forthcoming 2026).
• (Co-authored with Haruka Sakai) “コロナ禍初期における大学生のオンライン雑談会話[Online Casual Conversations among University Students in the Early Days of the Pandemic],” in Japanese, Japanese Journal of Language in Society, Vol. 25, No. 1 (October 2022): 102–117. https://doi.org/10.19024/jajls.25.1_102
• “「わたしたちのことば」に創発する居場所―留学生の逸脱的日本語によるあそびの分析から― [The Emergence of Ibasho in “Our Language”: Joking Practices with Deviant Japanese and Social Identities of International Students],” in Japanese, Intercultural Education, Vol. 55, (March 2022): 176–193. *Best Paper Award FY 2020-2021 from Intercultural Education Society of Japan
• (Co-authored with Risako Ide) “保育園と外国人保護者のコミュニケーション―ことばを問い，フィールドとかかわる言語人類学的実践研究 [Communication Issues between Preschool Staff and Foreign Parents: From the perspective of linguistic anthropology],” in Japanese, Studies of Language and Cultural Education, Vol. 18 (December 2020): 61–81. https://doi.org/10.14960/gbkkg.18.61
   

Co-Authored Book:

• (with Risako Ide, Toshiyuki Aoyama, Yuko Kano, and Yeming Chu) ディスコース研究のはじめかた―問いの見つけ方から論文執筆まで― [Starting Your Research in Discourse Studies: A guidebook for students] (Tokyo: Hitsuji, February 2025) 

   

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• “デジタルメディアを活用したミニエスノグラフィー [Ethnography with Digital Media],” in Japanese, in ミニエスノグラフィーの実践 [Practice of Mini-Ethnography], ed. Toshiaki Hara (Tokyo: Nakanishiya Publishing, forthcoming 2026).
• “Voicing the Belonging: Joking practices with deviant Japanese among international students at a Japanese university,” in Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives, eds. Bushnell Cade and Moody Stephen (London: Routledge, December 2023), 101–119. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003381426

Book Reviews:

• "Linguistic Anthropology of Education and Transnational Mobility by Satoko Shao-Kobayashi (2021)," New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship Book Review Series, Harvard-Yenching Institute, May 12, 2022. http://ow.ly/4GV550NqwwK
• "Can Japanese Language Communicate Closeness? by Masato Takiura (2013)," New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship Book Review Series, Harvard-Yenching Institute, January 20, 2022. http://ow.ly/NFVt50HE4g3

Dissertation:

"Seeking Ambiguity: Korean Language Use among Japanese High School Girls in Contemporary Japan" (PhD dissertation, University of Tsukuba, 2024)