About the speaker:
NAKAMURA Momoko, Ph.D. is Professor of English at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan. Her recent publications include Gender, Language and Ideology: A Genealogy of Japanese Women’s Language (2014), Shinkeigo “maji yabaissu” [New Honorifics “Maji yabaissu”] (2020), and Onna kotoba wa tsukurareru [Constructing Women’s Language] (2007, Received the 27th Yamakawa Kikue Award). She has edited several volumes and special issues on language, gender, and sexuality including special issues of Gender & Language (2020) and East Asian Pragmatics (2021) and translated Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron and Don Kulick (2003) into Japanese.