Updated September 3, 2009
DISSERTATIONS
* Available in Department Library
Chinese
*Chen, Zhen. 2006. “The Diachronic Development and Synchronic Diversity of the DisyllabicDirectional Complements in Chinese: A Corpus-based Cross-linguistic Study on the
Grammaticalization Pathways and Semantic Change of the Disyllabic-Directional Complements”
[Ying-che Li, Robert L. Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, Chin-tang Lo, David Yang (Accounting)]
*Chokkajitsumpun, Pranee. 1998. “Chinese Literacy Maintenance and Shift in Bangkok: Individual and
Family Cases” [350pp.] [Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, James Landers, Michael Forman, Alice G.
Dewey (Anthropology)]
*Chu, Chengzhi. 2004. “Event Conceptualization and Grammatical Realization: The case of motion in
Mandarin Chinese” [248 pp.] (Ying-che Li, Robert Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, Roderick Jacobs,
Gay G. Reed)
*Crossland, Shuyun G. Guok Sok Eng. 1996. “'The Oral Tradition of Bianwen — Its Features and
Influence on Chinese Narrative Literature” [238pp.] (Chin-tang Lo, Chair; David McCraw,
Ying-che Li, James Landers, Steve Goldberg, Victor Mair)
*Eichman, Shawn R. 1999. “Converging Paths: The Highest Clarity and Celestial Master Traditions of
Daoism During the Six Dynasties” [349pp.] (David McCraw, Chin-tang Lo, Ed Davis, Roger
Ames, David Chappell)
*Fujitani, Shufen. 2000. “Mandarin le in Linguistic, Interlanguage and Sociolinguistic Context” [334
pp.] (Robert Cheng, Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, David Yang)
*Gammon, Roderick A. 2002. “A Common Architecture for Expressing Linguistic Theories: With
illustrations from Chinese languages, cognitive grammar, and software engineering” (Robert
Cheng, Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che L, David Ashworth, David Chin, ICS)
*Hayden, Jeffrey J. 2004. “Why Johnny Can Read Chinese: Working memory, cognitive processes, and
reading comprehension.” (Tao-chung Yao, Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che Li, David E. Ashworth,
Thomas D. Hudson, SLS]
*Hsiung, Hsien-Kuan Ann-Marie. 1995. “Seeking Women in Pre-modern Chinese Texts: Feminist ReVision of Ming Drama 1368-1644” [252pp.] (Chin-tang Lo, Chair; David McCraw, Ming Bao
Yue, Roger Ames, Kathy Ferguson, Elizabeth Wichman)
Hwang, Menq-ju. 2009. “Brush Talk at the Conversation Table Interaction between L1 and L2 Speakers
of Chinese” [Gabriele Kasper, Ying-che Li, Tao-chung Yao, David E. Ashworth, Cynthia Ning]
*Jang, Shyue-Chian. 1998. “Aspects of Spoken and Written Taiwanese” [183pp] (Robert Cheng, Hsin-I
Hsieh, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, Y-H. Yeh, Michael Forman)
Jiang, Song. 2009. “The Semantic Structure of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity” [Ying-Che
Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Benjamin Bergen (Ling), David Yang (Acc’tg)
Updated September 3, 2009
*Lee, Hae Woo. 1994. “Etymo-phonological Comparison of Chinese Dialects, Sino-Japanese and SinoKorean” [505pp.] (Robert L. Cheng, Chair; Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, Ho-min Sohn, Hugh
Kang)
*Lee, In-Tack. 1993. “Selected Myths of China and Korea: A Comparative Study Analysis” [224pp.]
(Chin-tang Lo, Chair; Shang Ho, Ying-che Li, Marshall Pihl, Tien-yi Tao)
Li, Yanfeng. 2005. “Linguistic and Graphic Manipulation in the Miscellaneous Forms of Traditional
Chinese Poetry” [David McCraw, Chin-tang Lo, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Roger Ames]
*Oem, Kui Duck. 2000. “The Boudoir Lament Poetry of the Six Dynasties.” [186 pp.] (Chin-tang Lo,
Ying-che Li, David McCraw, Ho-min Sohn, Tien-yi Tao)
Parinyavottichai, Chanyaporn. 2009. “Cognitive Approach to the Grammaticalization of ‘IN’ and ‘OUT’
in Mandarin and Thai and Related Pedagogical Applications” [Ying-che Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Taochung Yao, Katsuhiro Ota, Cynthia Ning]
*Stasiewski, Rainer H. 2000. “A Study of Phonological Interference Between Two Tonal Languages —
Chinese and Thai.” [135 pp.] (Robert Cheng, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, Pat Donegan, Tom
Gething)
Su, Shuhui. 2009. “Semantic Evolution and Sense Network Model of Polysemous Adverbs in Chinese:
The case of Cai and Jiu” [Ying-che Li, Robert Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, David E. Ashworth, Chintang Lo, Kate Zhou (PolSci]
*Sun, Sylvia Henel. 1997. “The Development of a Lexical Tone Phonology in American Adult Learners
of Standard Mandarin Chinese.” [350pp.] (Ying-che Li, Chair; Tao-chung Yao, Dina Yoshimi,
Patricia Donegan, Richard Schmidt)
Wang, Haidan. 2002. “Images and Expressions in Mandarin Chinese” [Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che Li, Taochung Yao, Chin-tang Lo, James R. Landers, David Yang]
*Wang, Jianqi. 1996. “Theoretical Considerations on Chinese Language Processing” [226pp.] (Ying-che
Li, Chair; Hsin-I Hsieh, James Landers, Chin-tang Lo, Tien-yi Tao)
*Wang, Jong. 1996. “An Idealism of Romance in Xixiang Ji: Historical Critiques” [217pp.] (Chin-tang
Lo, Chair; Hsin-I Hsieh, James Landers, Sen-dou Chang, Chung-ying Cheng)
*Wang, Shao-Ling. 2003. “Prediction? Prescription? A Comparative Analysis Between Chinese and
English Modals” [213 pp.] [Tao-chung Yao, Robert L. Cheng, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo ,
Cynthia Ning (CCS)]
*Zeng, Suzanne M. (Veyveris). 1996. “A Pragmatic Study of Chinese Interrogatives— Which
Interrogatives are Used to Perform Which Acts?” [200pp.] (Robert L. Cheng, Chair; Hsin-I
Hsieh, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, Gabriele Kasper)
Japanese
*Bentley, John R. 1999. “A Structural Analysis of the Language of the Oldest Norito” [295pp.]
(Alexander Vovin, David Ashworth, Robert Huey, Gerald Mathias, Leon Serafim, Paul Varley)
Updated September 3, 2009
*Cogan, Thomas. 1982. “A Study and Complete Translation of the Soga Monogatari” [545pp.] (James T.
Araki, Chair; David Ashworth, Hiroko Ikeda, Valdo Viglielmo, V. Dixon Morris)
*Curry, Stewart A. 2004. “Small Linguistics: Phonological history and lexical loans in Okinawa-Nakijin
Dialect” (Leon A. Serafim, David E. Ashworth, Gerald B. Mathias, Anatole Lyovin, Maryann
Overstreet (LLEA))
*Hagiwara, Akiko. 2005. “The Role of Literality in Comprehension of Utterances in Japanese” [Haruko
M. Cook, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Gabriel Kasper, Shuqiang Zhang]
Hansen, Kelly J. 2009. “Towards a Theory of Multiple Discourse in the Fiction of Futabatei Shimei”
[Joel R. Cohn, Robert N. Huey, Nobuko M. Ochner, Katsue A. Reynolds, Helen Baroni
(Religion)]
*Hecht, M. Spencer. 2005. “Conventions of Unconventionality: The Rhetoric of Reclusion in Kitayama
Japanese Five Mountains Literature” [Arthur H. Thornhill, Joel R. Cohn, Lucy Lower , Paul
Varley (History), George Tanabe (Religion)]
Ikeda, Keiko. 2007. “Audience Presence and Japanese Political Oratory: A case study of a municipal
assembly candidate” [261 pp.] [Haruko M. Cook, Gabriele Kasper, Leon A. Serafim, Jack Bilmes
(Anthropology, Patricia Steinhoff (Sociology)]
Ikeda, Kyle K. 2007. “Unspoken Memory and Vicarious Trauma: The Battle of Okinawa in the SecondGeneration Survivor Fiction of Medoruma Shu” [Nobuko M. Ochner, Robert N. Huey, Lucy
Lower, Leon A. Serafim, Geoffrey White, Anthro]
*Ikoma, Albert. 1979. “Sakaguchi Ango: His Life and Work” [218pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo, Chair;
James Araki, Hiroko Ikeda, Mildred Tahara, Minoru Shinoda)
Ishida, Kazutoh. 2009. “A Languacultural Approach to Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language at the
Beginner’s Level” [Dina R. Yoshimi, Kyoko Hijirida, Gabriele Kasper, Michael Forman, Kathryn
Davis, SLS]
*Kavanagh, Frederick. 1985. “Twenty Muromachi-Period Prose Narratives” [348pp.] (James T. Araki,
Chair; David Ashworth, Peter Lee, Valdo Viglielmo, Minoru Shinoda)
Updated September 3, 2009
*Kitade, Keiko. 2005. “Interactional Features of Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication for
Language Learning: From Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives” [312 pp] [David E.
Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Richard R. Day (SLS), Curtis P. Ho (EdTech)
*Komori, Saeko. 2006. “L2 Kanji Recognition Processing” [David E.Ashworth, John Haig, Kyoko
Hijirida, Cathy Doughty, Martha Crosby]
*Matsunaga, Sachiko. 1994. “The Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Natures of Kanji: Do Kanji Represent
and Trigger Only Meanings?”[161pp.] (David E. Ashworth, Chair; John DeFrancis, Timothy
Vance, Martha Crosby, Peter Dunn-Rankin)
*McMeekin, Abigail L. 2003. “NS-NNS Negotiation and Communication Strategy Use in the Host
Family versus the Study Abroad Classroom” [Haruko M. Cook, Kyoko Hijirida, Kazue Kanno,
Gabriele Kasper, J. D. Brown]
*Nakahara, Gladys E. 1999. “The Songs of Ryjinhish” [428pp.] (Arthur Thornhill, R. Huey, M.
Tahara, V. Viglielmo, J. Brandon)
*Nakayama, Etsuko. 1988. “A Study of Conflict in the Life and the Later Novels of Natsume Sôseki”
[648pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo, Chair; James Araki, Gerald Mathias, Patricia Steinhoff, V. Dixon
Morris)
Narita, Ritsuko. 2009. “The Effects of Pragmatic Consciousness-raising Activities on the Development of
Pragmatic Awareness and Use in Hearsay Evidentials for Learners of Japanese as a Foreign
Language” [Kazue Kanno, John Haig, Haruko M. Cook, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Richard Schmidt]
*Ochner, Nobuko M. 1984. “Nakajima Atsushi: His Life and Work” [667pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo,
Chair; James Araki, Yau-woon Ma, Mildred Tahara, Daniel Stempel)
*Ohara, Yumiko. 2000. “Doing Gender in Voice: Suprasegmental Aspects of Japanese Social
Construction of Gender.” [201 pp.] (Katsue Reynolds, John Haig, Kyoko Hijirida, Takie Lebra,
M. Meyerhoff)
*Okita, Yoko. 1996. “Kanji Learning Strategies and Verbal and Visual Learning Style Preferences”
[105pp.] (David E. Ashworth, Chair; Gerald Mathias, Leon Serafim, Harold Ayabe, Shuqiang
Zhang)
Pugarelli, Nobuko. 1984. “The Aesthetics of Destruction: A Study of Six Representative Modern Plays of
Mishima Yukio” [238pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo, Chair)
*Ridgeway, William N. 2002. “Gender, the Body and Desire in Meian (1916, Light and Darkness) and
the Later Novels of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)” (Valdo Viglielmo, Joel Cohn, Robert Huey,
Lucy Lower, Joseph O’Mealy, English)
*Riley, Barbara E. 2003. “The Genetic Relationship of the Korean and Japanese Languages” [Leon A.
Serafim, David E. Ashworth, John Haig, Ho-min Sohn, E. Shultz (CKS)]
Updated September 3, 2009
*Roberts, Michael A. 2000. “Implicational Markedness and the Acquisition of Relativization by Adult
Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language.” [246 pp.] (David Ashworth, Haruko Cook, Leon
Serafim, Dina Yoshimi, Richard Schmidt)
*Rolf, Robert. 1975. “Shuse, Hakucho, and the Age of Literary Naturalism, 1907-1911" [404pp.] (Valdo
H. Viglielmo, Chair; James Araki, Hiroko Ikeda, Yukuo Uyehara, Daniel Stempel)
*Rucinski, John. 1977. “An Introduction to the Literature of Hon Tatsuo” [305pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo,
Chair; James Araki, Hiroko Ikeda, Mildred Tahara, Emily Zants)
*Russell, Kerri L. 2006. “A Reconstruction and Morphophonemic Analysis of ProtoJaponic Verbal
Morphology" [Alexander Vovin, Leon A. Serafim, Robert Huey, Robert Blust, Paul Varley]
*Saft, Scott L. 2000. “The Social Organization and Effects of Arguments that Arise in Everyday
Interaction in a Japanese University Environment” [350 pp.] (Dina Yoshimi, Kyoko Hijirida,
Gerald Mathias, Michael Forman, Jack Bilmes)
Saito, Junko. 2009. “Gender and Linguistic Ideology: A re-examination of directive usage by Japanese
male superiors in the workplace” [Haruko M. Cook, Kazue Kanno, Leon A. Serafim, Victoria
Anderson (Ling), Liam Kelley (History)]
Updated September 3, 2009
*Sato, Yumiko. 1998. “The Phonetic Reality of the Mora in Japanese: A Cross-Linguistic Study on
Timing in Japanese, English, and Korean” [206pp.] (Timothy Vance, Gerald Mathias, Ho-min
Sohn, Vanna Condax, Richard Schmidt)
*Sawyer, Rieko. 2004. “Needs Assessment for International Graduate Students of Science in Japan: An
ethnographic approach from situated learning theory perspective” [Dina R. Yoshimi, David E.
Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Kathryn Davis, Michael Forman]
*Seliger, Isabel. 2001. “Speaking Theory Through Poetry: Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) on Poetic
Composition and Women’s Writing” [292 pp.] (Robert Huey, Joel Cohn, Lucy Lower, Arthur
Thornhill, Willa Tanabe)
*Summersgill, Harue. 1985. “Natsume Sôseki's Higan sugi made: A Critical Study and Complete English
Translation” [553pp.] (Valdo H. Viglielmo, Chair; James Araki, Gerald Mathias, V. Dixon
Morris, Bruce Stillians)
Tateyama, Yumiko. 2008. “Requesting in Japanese Through Foreign Language Classroom Instruction”
[453 pp.] (Gabriele Kasper, Chair; Haruko M. Cook, John H. Haig, Dina R. Yoshimi, J.D.Brown)
[proxy for Cook, D. Ashworth, for Haig, T. Klafehn]
*Tokuda, Miho. 2001. “L2 Learners’ Perceptions of Politeness in Japanese: The Evaluations of NonNative Speakers’ Speech in L2 Japanese” [302 pp.] (John Haig, David Ashworth, Haruko Cook,
Gabriele Kasper, Daniel Blaine, EdPsy)
*Yanagisawa, Miwako. 2004. “Exploring Social Identity in Narrative as Problem-Solving Discourse:
Analyzing Japanese-speaking Christians’ Testimonies” (Dina R. Yoshimi, David E. Ashworth,
Haruko M. Cook, Kazue Kanno, Jack Bilmes (Anthropology))
*Yokomizo, Shinichiro. 1997. “Omou/Omotte-iru: Reflection of Speaker's Subjectivity in Expressing
One's Own Cognition” [260pp.] (David E. Ashworth, Chair)
Zimmerman, Erica L. 2007. “Identity Constructions of Users of Japanese: Interculturality in Talk” [285
pp.] [Gabriele Kasper, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Dina R. Yoshimi, Jack Bilmes
(Outside Member)]
Korean
*Ahn, Chang Seob –“Five Measures of Interlanguage Pragmatics in KFL Learners” (203 pp)[Ho-min
Sohn, David E. Ashworth, Dong Jae Lee, J. D. Brown, Michael Forman]
*Byon, Andrew. 2001. “The Communicative Act of Requests: Interlanguage Features of American KFL
Learners” [197 pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, Chair; David Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Dong Jae Lee, J.D.
Brown, SLS)
Hong, Jong-Myung. 2008. “Teacher-Learner Negotiation in Content-Based KSL Classroom” [212 pp]
(Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Sung-Ock Sohn (UCLA), Edward Shultz
(Asan))
Updated September 3, 2009
Hwang, Jiha. 2002. “Acquisition Hierarchy in Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL)” [HMS, DEA, DJL,
MForman, JDBrown]
Jeong, Hee-Jeong. 2009. “A Comparative Study of Copulas in Japanese and Korean” [Ho-Min Sohn,
John Haig, Dong Jae Lee, Alexander Vovin, William O’Grady]
*Kim, Hi-Sun Helen. 2005. “Processing Transfer and Strategies of Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners
of Korean” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Amy Schafer, Craig Chaudron)
*Koh, Haejin Elizabeth. 2002. “A Cross-Cultural Study of Address Terms in Korean and English” [136
pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, David Ashworth, Dong Jae Lee, Michael Forman, Linguistics, Yong-Ho
Choe)
*Kong, Dong-Kwan. 2007. “Effects of Elaborative Text Modification on KSL Reading Comprehension”
[174 pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Mee-Jeong Park, Thomas Hudson (SLS), Richard
Schmidt (SLS))
*Lee, Jeyseon. 1996. “Morpho-phonological Reduction in Korean” [237pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, Chair; Dong
Jae Lee, Gerald Mathias, Kenneth Rehg, Yong-Ho Choe)
*Lee, Young-Geun. 2002. “Effects of Task Complexity on the Complexity and Accuracy of Oral
Production in L2 Korean” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kyoko Hijirida, Michael Long, J.D.
Brown)
*Lee, Young-Hee. 1993. “Traditional and Modern Korean Women's Literature: Ideology, Culture and
Han” [209pp.] (Marshall R. Pihl, Chair; Joel Cohn, Ho-min Sohn, Timothy Vance, Uichol Kim)
*Park-Miller, Chan E. 1995. “Pan’sori Performed from Strawmat to Proscenium and Back” [324pp.]
(Marshall R. Pihl, Chair; Lucy Lower, Ho-min Sohn, Ricardo Trimillos, Mark Helbing)
*Pettid, Michael J. 1999. “From Abandoned Daughter to Shaman Matriarch: An Analysis of the Pari
Kongju Muga, A Korean Shamanistic Song” [316pp.] (Yung-Hee Kim, Dong Jae Lee, Ho-min
Sohn, Sang Tae Kim, Hugh H.W. Kang)
*Turker, Ebru. 2005. “Locative Expressions in Korean and Turkish: A cognitive grammar approach”
(300+ pp) [Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, William O’Grady, Terry Klafehn, Gay Reed]
*Yuen, Soo-ah. 2001. “Socio-Pragmatic Functions of the Korean Sentence Enders: From the Politeness
Perspective” [205 pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, David Ashworth, Dong Jae Lee, Leon Serafim, Yong-ho
Choe]