the University of Melbourne
Asian Institute
Visiting Researcher
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 (7)：
2024 - 2027 分断・移動の時代の継承語とアイデンティティ
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
2021 - 2024 移民の継承語とエスニックアイデンティティに関する社会言語学的研究
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-
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Papers (16)：
Rika Yamashita. Linguistic Landscape of ‘Indian-Nepalese’ Restaurants: A Study on Script Choice of Shop Signs in the Greater Tokyo Area. Papers from the Symposium “Mobility, boundaries and languages”. 2025. 181-206
Rika Yamashita. Comparing pre-COVID and post-COVID South Asian demographics in Japan. The Annual report of the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kanto Gakuin University. 2025. 47. 61-75
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
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
Highly Skilled Professionals and Multiculturalism: Local MPs Speeches in Pakistani Festivals in Japan and Australia
(ISA RC25 Interim Conference “Researching discursive and linguistic barriers to social inclusion” 2024)
Discursive construction of an ethno-national identity: Pakistani Festivals in Tokyo
(AILA2024 2024)
Youth in translingual and transmissional practices in a rapidly aging society: The importance of ‘space’ and language
(AILA2024 2024)
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
