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Junichi Yagi, PhD

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

Assistant professor (non-tenured), Waseda University, School of Commerce – Tokyo (04/2024 – present)

Most of my research focuses on performative (i.e., embodied, intercorporeal, multisensorial) aspects of social interaction, that is, how we conduct our everyday life by using language(s), body, space, and objects. In my PhD dissertation, I used multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate various instructional activities in music and sports (e.g., taiko ensemble, Muay Thai training, jazz/blues band), where people use a range of semiotic resources 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.

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