Research field (4):
Local studies
, Linguistics
, Cultural anthropology and folklore
, Sociology
Research keywords (11):
linguistic landscape
, 南アジア
, Pakistan
, 言語人類学
, sociolinguistics
, multilingualism
, Linguistic Ethnography
, Applied Linguistics
, Bilingualism
, Migrant communities
, Code-switching
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5):
2020 - 2024 日豪における移民二世の宗教アイデンティティと多言語使用
2016 - 2019 A Study on the Interaction Between Service Industry and Media Language with Gender
2015 - 2018 Multilingualism and language awareness at schools in immigrant communities
2014 - 2017 宗教コミュニティにおける多言語使用:スタイルシフティングの視点から
2010 - 2012 日本語・ウルドゥー語の言語接触-在日南アジア系ムスリムコミュニティの例-
Papers (13):
Rika Yamashita. Semiotic roles of the Flag of the Star and Crescent in migrant context: Cases of banal nationalism in Pakistani restaurants in Japan and Australia. Mobility and Language as Everyday Practice: A New Challenge for Japanese Sociolinguistics. 2021. 219-243
Rika Yamashita. Connecting the Personal to the Collective: The haafu aruaru (things that happen to racially/ethnically ‘mixed’ people) Narratives on Twitter. Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese. 2021. 213-232
Rika YAMASHITA. South Asians in Japan: Demographic and Sociolinguistic Implications. Asian and African Languages and Linguistics. 2020. 14. 95-132
Rika Yamashita. Ch 14. Codeswitching, language crossing, and mediatized crosslinguistic practices. Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics. 2019. 218-234
Rika Yamashita. Languages and lives of young Pakistani Muslimahs in Japan on the move. Mobility and Language. 2018. 214-244
My trajectory: How I came to study "South Asian migrants" (Looking back on our trajectories). Kazuko Miyake and Yasuhiro Arai (Eds) Mobility and Language as Everyday Practice: A New Challenge for Japanese Sociolinguistics. 2021. 242-243
Koiso Hanae, Tanaka Yukari, Nakato Yasue, Yamashita Rika, Bono Mayumi. Symposium in the 20th Anniversary Congress 20 years of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences: Tokugawa Award Winners' Perspective on Its Future. The Japanese Journal of Language in Society. 2018. 21. 1. 397-406
Nishaant Choksi. Beyond multilingualism: New approaches to the study of contemporary linguistic diversity in South Asian societies. Minamiajiakenkyu. 2017. 2017. 29. 290-293
Christoph Kimura Goro, Miyazaki Ayumi, Yoshida Rika, Yamashita Rika, Terasawa Takunori, Akimoto Sugimori Noriko. Workshop in the 38th Congress The Scope and Possibilities of Language Ideologies Research: Linking Micro and Macro Levels. The Japanese Journal of Language in Society. 2017. 19. 2. 104-109
2010/04 - 2013/03 the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology JSPS Research fellow (DC1)
2011/01 - 2011/11 Birkbeck college, University of London Visiting researcher
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Committee career (3):
2023/06 - 現在 International Sociological Association RC 25 Language and Society Tresurer
2019/04 - 現在 東京移民言語フォーラム 企画・運営・管理
2015/03 - 2019/03 話しことばの言語学ワークショップ 運営実行委員
Awards (3):
2016/03 - The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences The Tokugawa Soken Prize
2012/03 - The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences Best presentation award for the 29th JASS conference
2009/09 - The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences Best presentation award for the 24th JASS conference
Association Membership(s) (5):
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
, International Sociological Associatioin Research Group 25 (Language and society)
, Linguistic Ethnography Forum
, 多言語社会研究会
, JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCIENCES