I am a professor of Japanese linguistics and a graduate faculty in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. My research interests include Sociolinguistics, Language Socialization, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis.
Educational Background
(1988) PhD in Linguistics, University of Southern California
(1978) MA in Linguistics, California State University Long Beach
Research Areas
Sociolinguistics, language socialization, pragmatics, and discourse analysis
Selected Bibliography
Cook, Haruko M. and Takada, Akira (2023) (eds.), Nihon ni okeru Genngo Shakaika Handobukku [Japanese Handbook of Language Socialization]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
Cook, Haruko M. (2021). Referential and non-referential (im)politeness: The trainer’s speech in a new employee orientation in a Japanese company. East Asian Pragmatics 6(1): 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.18239
Cook, Haruko M. and Shibamoto Smith, Janet (2018) (eds.), Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cook, Haruko M. (2018). Socialization to acting, feeling, and thinking as shakaijin: New employee orientation in a Japanese company. In H. M. Cook and J. Shibamoto Smith (eds.), Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-64.
Cook, Haruko M. (2018). Speech style shift. In Y. Hasegawa (ed.), Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 628-648.
Cook, Haruko, M. (2018). Superior’s directives in the Japanese workplace: Are they all strategies? In M. Endo Hudson, Y. Matsumoto, and J. Mori (eds.), Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on Grammar, Interaction and Culture. Amsterdam: John Benjaims, pp. 125-148.