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Junichi Yagi, PhD
Ph.D. in Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2023)
Assistant Professor (non-tenured), Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University – Tokyo (04/2024 – present)
Most of my research focuses on embodied aspects of social interaction—how we conduct our everyday life by using language(s), gesture and material objects. In my PhD dissertation, I used multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate instructional activities in music and sports, in which these semiotic resources are used to teach and learn things.
My current research interest is in how learning (e.g., language, embodied skills, culture) may be occasioned within the activity framework of play (e.g., music, sports, other leisure activities). I am interested, topically, in skateboarding as a lifestyle sport, and methodologically, in combining multimodal conversation analysis and ethnography as an interactional approach to urban subculture.
Research Interests: multimodal conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, instruction/instructed action, error-correction, embodied demonstration, music, sports