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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)

My research focuses on the embodied aspects of social interaction—how we navigate everyday life through language, gesture, and material objects. In my PhD dissertation, I used multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate instructional activities in music and sports, exploring how these semiotic resources are used in teaching and learning.

My current research project explores how learning opportunities emerge through play, by which I refer to a wide range of hobbies and leisure activities, including music and sports. I am particularly interested in skateboarding as a lifestyle sport and in integrating multimodal CA with ethnography as an interactional approach to urban subcultures.

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