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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. His research explores embodied aspects of social interaction, that is, how people coordinate language, gesture, and material objects in the course of everyday activities. Adopting multimodal conversation analysis (CA), he investigates how participants draw on these interactional resources to teach and learn embodied skills. His recent work examines how learning opportunities emerge through play—broadly understood as a range of hobbies and leisure activities, such as music and sports. He is particularly interested in skateboarding and in integrating multimodal CA with ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography to better understand the social organizations of urban subcultures.

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Research Interests: multimodal conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, instruction/instructed action, error-correction, music, sports