AUT - Junji Kawai

Dr Junji Kawai

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6021

Email: junji.kawai@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
Room WT908, Level 9, AUT Tower, corner of Wakefield and Rutland Streets, Auckland Central

Qualifications:

• PhD Canterbury
• MA Massey
• BA Osaka UFS

Biography:

Junji Kawai has been teaching at AUT since 2005.  Before arriving at AUT, he had taught at Massey University for nine years and at the University of Canterbury for three years.

Research Summary:

Junji completed his PhD in Linguistics, specialising in phonology, in 2004.  In his thesis, he examined a variety of phonological processes observed in Japanese speech, and attemped to formalise the grammar underlying casual speech, as opposed to formal speech, from the point of view of constraint interaction within the framework of Optimality Theory.  He has published articles on Japanese phonology nationally and internationally.

As a teacher of Japanese, he has interests in teaching methodology, with particular reference to student-centred approach, and has recently extended his research interests to cover this area as part of his action research.

Current Research Projects:

• Dealing with variation in Optimality Theory
• Lifestyle migration of Japanese to New Zealand (with Dr Charles Johnston)
  
• Student-centred learning in non-sequential mix-level classes (with Dallas Nesbitt and Yuka Waller)
  

Publications:

• Johnston, Charles, and Junji Kawai (2011) "Why did I come here?": migration motives of raifusutairu ijūsha living in Auckland, New Zealand.  The Journal of the Japan Society for New Zealand Studies 18, 5-19.
• Kawai, Junji (2011) Emphatic adjectives in Japanese.  On'in Kenkyū (Phonological Studies) 14, 3-10.  Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
  
• Holt, Ron and Junji Kawai  (2007) The Japanese history textbook controversy: a context analysis.  The Historian 94,23-27.  London: The Historical Association
  
• Kawai, Junji (2006) Vowel coalescence in vulgarisms.  On'in Kenkyū (Phonological Studies) 9, 33-40.  Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2005) Optimality theoretical analysis of underlying vowel sequences.  On'in Kenkyū (Phonological Studies) 8, 9-16.  Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2005) Transitional stages of constraint reranking.  Proceedings of the 1st International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Literacy Studies, 1-13. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington.
  
• Henshall, Kenneth, with Junji Kawai (2004) Welcome to Japanese. Boston: Tuttle Publishing.  160pp.
  
• De Mente, Boye, with Junji Kawai (2004) Survival Japanese (Revised Edition). Boston: Tuttle Publishing.  159pp. 
  
• Kawai, Junji (2003) Markedness in casual speech.  Nihongo Kagaku (Japanese Linguistics) 14, 73-97.  Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (The National Institute for Japanese Language).
  
• Kawai, Junji (2003) Syncope in the te-form with auxiliary verbs.  New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 5.1, 121-137.

Presentations

• Johnston, Charles, and Junji Kawai (2010) Ethnicity, Mobility, Identity: Japanese Chōki Taizaisha in Auckland, New Zealand.  Globalization and Public Policy: An International Cross Cultural Research Exchange Conference.  Auckland: AUT, 10-12 August.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2007) Dealing with Variation in Optimality Theory.  The Linguistic Society of New Zealand 17th Biennial Conference Hamilton: University of Waikato, 19-20 November.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2005) Emphatic Expressions in Japanese.  16th NZ Asian Studies Society International Conference.  Hamilton: University of Waikato, 21 - 23 November.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2005) Emphatic Expressions in Japanese.  The Linguistic Society of New Zealand Linguistics 16th Biennial Conference.  Auckland: University of Auckland, 17 - 18 November.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2004) Transitional Stages of Constraint Reranking.  The Postgraduate Open Book Conference. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington, 31 August - 1 September.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2004) Saitekisei Riron ni yoru Boin Renzoku no Onseika ni tsuite.  The 11th Phonological Society of Japan Conference.  Tokyo: Aoyama Gakuin University, 18 June.
  
• Kawai, Junji (2003) Markedness in Casual Japanese Speech.  The Linguistic Society of New Zealand Linguistics 15th Biennial Conference.  Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington, 5 September.