Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Satoshi Nambu joined Monash in 2017 after engaging in linguistics research as a post-doctoral researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and an adjunct researcher at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
Research interests
My research interests lie in the dynamics of language variation: how it contributes to diachronic change in grammar, and how it functions as a means to reflect and construct the identity and ideology of a speaker.
Much of my work has focused on syntactic variation with respect to i) whether it reflects an ongoing linguistic change in grammar, and ii) the extent to which linguistic and other factors influence its perception and use and the extent to which they may have contributed to propelling the observed linguistic change. I have employed quantitative approaches, including corpus-based and questionnaire surveys and psycholinguistic experiments.
Besides the above projects, recently, I have been engaged in sociolinguistic projects on 1) linguistic landscape to identify the functions of language on signage in relation to immigrants' identities and ideologies in Japan, and on 2) character language ("role language") used in fiction and translation to understand the mechanism of how such speech styles and their social meanings have been developed in relation to real-life language ideologies, viewing it as a case of language variation with reference to the sociolinguistic concept "enregisterment".
My personal website is here.
Accepting Phd students
Research area keywords
- Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax
- Psycholinguistics
- Language Change and Variation
- Japanese Linguistics
- Experimental and Corpus Linguistics
Network
Projects
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Investigating language variation and change: Language use by various social groups in Japan
1/12/20 → 25/01/21
Project: Research
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A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese
Nambu, S., Mar 2023, In: Language Sciences. 96, 13 p., 101534.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Kopyura no shutsugen hishutugen ni okeru gengo henka ni tsuite.
Nambu, S., 2022, Koopasu kara wakaru gengo henka/hen'i to gengo riron 3. Ogawa, Y. & Nakayama, T. (eds.). Tokyo, Japan: Kaitakusha, p. 387-400 24 p.Translated title of the contribution :Linguistic Change in the use/non-use of copula in Japanese Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: diachronic and synchronic considerations
Nambu, S., Oshima, D. Y. & Sano, S., Nov 2022, In: Journal of Japanese Linguistics. 38, 2, p. 161-191 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan: a case study of Japanese Brazilian communities
Nambu, S., 16 Nov 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The nominative-to-accusative shift in modern Japanese: A diachronic observation
Nambu, S., Sano, S. & Oshima, D. Y., 2020, Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Iwasaki, S., Strauss, S., Fakuda, S. & Jun, S-A. (eds.). CSLI Publications, Vol. 26. 11 p. (Japanese/Korean Linguistics Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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The Japanese Journal of Language in Society (Journal)
Satoshi Nambu (Editorial board member)
2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Asia-Pacific Language Variation (Journal)
Satoshi Nambu (Peer reviewer)
2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Lingua (Journal)
Satoshi Nambu (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Linguistics (Journal)
Satoshi Nambu (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Language Variation and Change (Journal)
Satoshi Nambu (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility