Person

Iwasaki, Shōichi

1951

Amerikan. Linguist (Linguistik des Japanischen u. Thailändischen). Shoichi Iwasaki is Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He received his first B.A. from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1974 and his second B.A. from International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan in 1977. He received his M.A. from University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California at Los Angeles in 1988. The institutions where he has taught at include University of Adelaide (Australia), Thammasat University (Thailand), Nagoya Gakuin University (Japan), and UCLA (California). His research areas are Japanese linguistics, Thai linguistics, discourse analysis, functional linguistics, language change, sociolinguistics, intonation, and minority language description (Ryukyu).