TOMINARI Ayako

  • TOMINARI Ayako
    Title:
    Associate Professor
    Teacher Group:
    Media and culture

Classes

Discourse Analysis

Class Content

Learning the relation between discourse and society.

Discourse Analysis course will give you an overview of discourse analysis, which is an interdisciplinary area including linguistics and sociology. It will help you to learn theories and methods in discourse analysis and understand the relationship between language and society. By the end of this course, a successful learner will understand theories and analytical methods in discourse analysis and be able to analyze a text and discuss and present its findings.

Brief Outline of History & Achievements

PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University (Thesis title: The male sports hero and masculinity: a critical discourse analysis of broadsheet and sports newspaper articles on the National High School Baseball Championship 2006 in Japan) Tominari, A. and Paichadze, S. (2019) Ethnicity and Gender in Teruko Yoshitake's Okizari - Saharin zanryu nihon jyoseitachi-no 60-nen (Left behind - 60 years of post-war life for the Japanese women left in Sakhalin). The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies (28). pp.3-20. Tominari, A. (2016) 五輪サッカー報道にみられるジェンダーとナショナリズム−2012年ロンドン五輪の新聞記事分析−(Gender and nationalism in Olympics soccer reports: An analysis of newspaper articles on 2012 London Olympics), In Ishigami, F. and Takagi, S. (eds.) 『ディスコース分析の実践 メディアが作る「現実」を明らかにする』(Practice of Discourse Analysis: revealing 'reality' made by the media). Tokyo: Kuroshio. pp.103-137.

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Academic Society Affiliations

The Japanese Association of Socio linguistic Sciences, Japan Association for Media English Studies, International Gender and Language Association

E-mail

atmnr@imc.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Areas

Discourse analysis, gender and language, media analysis