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Polly Szatrowski

612-624-1860
ILES 214 NCCE

Specialties

  • Japanese language and linguistics

Publications

  • Nihongo no danwa no koozoo bunseki-Kanyuu no danwa no sutoratezii no koosatu (Structure of Japanese conversation-Invitation strategies). Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Kurosio Publishers, 1993.
  • Nitibee in okeru animeesyon no sutoorii no katarikata to higengo koodoo no sooi (Differences in American and Japanese nonverbal behavior and retellings of the story of an animation), 187-201. Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Soogooteki nihongo kyooiku o motomete, 2002.
  • Genbun no roodoku wadan to tyookai yooyakubun to no kankee (Relation between acoustic characteristics of the oral reading of an editorial essay and its summaries). Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Nihongo no bunsyoo/danwa ni okeru "dan" no koozoo to kinoo (Structure and function of dan 'meaning paragraphs' in Japanese spoken and written discourse), 202-216., 2000.
  • Animeesyon no sutoorii o kataru sai no wadan to tyuusin hatuwa (Wadan 'stages' and central utterances in animation film narratives): Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Hyoogen Kenkyuu, 76 33-39, 2002.
  • Syntactic projectability and co-participant completion in Japanese conversation: Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Berkeley Linguistic Society, 28 315-325, 2002.
  • Conflict in harmonious Japan?: Myths and evidence from conversational interactions. Szatrowski, Polly Ellen, Kurosio Publishers, 2003.

Professional Activities

  • "Participant status and person restriction in Japanese co-construction," the Sante Fe Workshop on the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface, Sante Fe, NM: April 4, 2003 - April 5, 2003
  • "The interactive construction of wadan in Japanese dyadic conversation," Association of Teachers of Japanese 2003 Seminar, New York, NY: March 27, 2003
  • Association for Japanese Language Teaching, 18th Public Lecture course for Teaching Japanese: Teaching Conversation, Tokyo, Japan: June 22, 2003
  • Organized panel for the Association of Teachers of Japanese 2003 Seminar on "Questions, Answers, etc.: The larger picture," New York, NY: March 27, 2003
  • Editorial Board, Nihongo Bunpoo (Journal of Japanese Grammar), the journal of Nihongo Bunpoo Gakkai (The Society of Japanese Grammar): 2000 - present
  • Reviewer, The Journal of Pragmatics: 2001
  • Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Member, Association of Asian Studies
  • Member, Association of Teachers of Japanese
  • Member, Grant Review Committee, US National Science Foundation, Japanese Study Program: 1991
  • Member, National Language Research Institute, John Hopkins University, Japanese Advisory Council: 1993 - 1994
  • Director, Discourse Laboratory, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota: 2002 - present
  • Member, CLA Committee on Second Language Education, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota: 1993 - 1997
  • Chair, Japanese Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; Director of Graduate Studies; Coordinator, Japanese Language Program, University of Minnesota: 1998 - 2000

Outreach Activities

  • Participated in organizing activities for Japan Week: 1994
  • Organized a tea ceremony event at the Asian Conference: 1997

Awards

  • US Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, 1992 - 1993
  • Invited Researcher at the National Language Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1997 - 1998
  • Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, US Department of Education, 2000 - 2001

Courses Taught

  • Jpn 5650 - Proseminar: Japanese Linguistics
  • Ling 5900 - Topics in Linguistics: Structure of Japanese
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