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- Title:
- Associate Professor
- Teacher Group:
- Language and Communication
Classes
Language in society: An introduction to sociolinguistics
Class Content
Examining language use and representation in situ
This course introduces the field of sociolinguistics, a study of language in social context. It focuses on some classic and cutting-edge concepts developed in this discipline and introduces related disciplines such as the sociology of language and linguistic anthropology. The following topics will be covered in class: language variation and change, language and identity, bi/multilingualism, language ideology, language policy and planning, and language death and revitalization/reclamation.
Brief Outline of History & Achievements
Ruriko Otomo is Associate Professor at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication since 2020. Before joining Hokkaido University, she earned a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Hong Kong in 2017, with a dissertation on the intersection between international migration of healthcare workers and various manifestations of language issues. She specializes in language policy and planning, especially with the lenses of ethnographic approach, and a triadic relationship between language, migration and labor. She has contributed to a number of international journals and book series, including Multilingua, Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2019), Language, and Global Mobilities and Blue-collar Workplaces (Routledge, 2020).
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Academic Society Affiliations
The Japanese association of sociolinguistic sciences
rotomo@imc.hokudai.ac.jp
Research Areas
Language policy and planning, Language ideology, Language education, Migration, Ethnography