karatsu

Home Department: East Asian Studies (EAS)

SLAT Areas of Specialization: Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning

Dr. Karatsu’s research addresses topics in the fields of Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics.  In particular, she is interested in Narrative Study, Study of Conversational Storytelling, Presentation of Identities/ Selves, Grammar in Interaction, and Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.  Her research is empirical and qualitative analyses of naturally occurring conversational interaction (both verbal and nonverbal behavior).  Her goal is to be inter-disciplinary across Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, and Social Psychology.