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Junichi Yagi, PhD

Ph.D. in Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (12/2023)

Program-Specific Senior Lecturer (tenure-track lecturer)
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS), Kyoto University – Kyoto (04/2026 – present)

Junichi Yagi (PhD, Second Language Studies) is a Program-Specific Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS), Kyoto University.

Adopting multimodal conversation analysis, his research explores how people coordinate language, bodily conduct, and material objects in the course of everyday activities. With an analytic interest in the nexus of learning and play (i.e., hobbies and leisure activities), he has examined various settings related to music and sports, including amateur band rehearsals, taiko ensemble rehearsals, Muay Thai training, and skateboarding.

In his recent work, Junichi seeks to bring ethnomethodology into interdisciplinary dialogue with anthropology, phenomenology, and human geography to better understand the ways in which aesthetic performances, urban spaces, and translocal cultures are produced in situ.

Email: yagi.junichi.5j [at] kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Research Interests: multimodal conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, music, sports, creativity, aesthetics