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SHIMOJO Masazumi

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.	～1996/08	Master Course │ Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, Japanese │ University of Wisconsin-Madison │ Completed
2.	～1989/03	Faculty of Economics │ Doshisha University │ Graduated
3.	1996/08 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Wisconsin-Madison Master of Arts

Research activities
1.		The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Languege
2.		THE SOCIETY OF EXPRESSION-FORMATION STUDIES
3.		Japanese Association for contents history studies
4.		The Japan Reading Association
5.		The Society for Gender Studies in Japanese

Subject of research
1.	Female Sentence-final Particles and Character Depiction in Stories for Young Girls
2.	The Significance and Implementation of Using Fiction in JFL

Research summary
(1) Speech text and character portrayal in Japanese language. (2) Use of novels in teaching Japanese language Study is made on the relationship between speech text expression and character portrayal in novels written for young girls and in light novels, from the viewpoint of representation theory, juvenile literature, and contents culture. Furthermore, study and analysis is being conducted in significance, methods, and effectiveness in the use of novels in medium to advanced class and advanced class Japanese language education.

Present specialized field
Japanese linguistics, Japanese language education (Keyword：female sentence-final particles, stories for young girls, advanced JFL)

Papers
1.	2021/12	The Characters Depicted by Sentence Finals--Koto, Koto yo, Te?, Te yo-- in Light Novel Fantasy Works │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ ,pp.83-96 (Sole-authored)
2.	2020/12	Survey Findings on Sentence Finals and Characters in the Depiction of Young Adult Fiction │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ ,pp.125-133 (Sole-authored)
3.	2019/09	Non-Native Readers' Appreciation of Characters and Talk Depicted in Japanese Young Adult Fiction │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ ,pp.107-114 (Sole-authored)
4.	2018/09	Non-native Japanese Readers in the Evolution of Today's Media Franchising: Avid Readers' Appreciation of Young Adult Fiction │ THE SCIENCE OF READING", The Japan Reading Association │ ,pp.187-198 (Sole-authored)
5.	2015/09	Utterances Ending with "Da" and Character Depiction in Young Adult Fiction │ Ritsumeikan Social Sciences Review │ ,pp.177-189 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2018/12/08	Non-native Readers' Appreciation of Fictional Japanese Depiction (The 12th International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies)