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Haruko Cook

ProfessorJapanese Language and LinguisticsMoore Hall 362
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Phone: (808) 956-2057
Fax: (808) 956-9515
Email: hkcook@hawaii.edu

I am a professor of Japanese linguistics and a cooperating graduate faculty in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. My research interests include Sociolinguistics, Language Socialization, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis.

Educational Background

Ph.D.; University of Southern California, 1988, Linguistics

M.A.; California State University Long Beach, 1978, Linguistics

Research Areas

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language Socialization
  • Pragmatics
  • Discourse Analysis

Selected Bibliography

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.

Saito, Junko and Cook, Haruko M. (2017). Directives in workplace discourse. In B. Vine (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace. New York: Routledge, pp. 203-215.

Cook, Haruko, M. and Burdelski, Matthew (2017). Language socialization in Japanese communities. In P. Duff & Stephen May (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Socialization. New York: Springer, pp. 309-321.

Cook, Haruko, M. and Burdelski, Matthew (2017). (Im)politeness: Language socialization. In J, Culpeper, M. Haugh, and D. Kádár (eds.), Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 461-488.