Kim Jones
- Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Humanities
- Professor, East Asian Studies
- Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
- (520) 621-9293
- Modern Languages, Rm. 345
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- kjones@arizona.edu
Biography
Kimberly Jones (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She directed the University of Arizona Japanese language program for many years and has also served as department head of East Asian Studies and vice dean of the College of Humanities. A sociolinguist, she is particularly interested in gender and language, in how language pedagogy can be informed by the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and in children's language acquisition, attrition, and code-switching. Nationally, she has served on the board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, as Language and Linguistics Editor of Japanese Language and Literature, and as a consultant for College Board and Educational Testing Service working on curriculum and test development for the Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture program.
Interests: sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; gender and language use; second language pedagogy; child language acquisition and attrition; code-switching; discourses of childrearing; early childhood and elementary education in Japan
Degrees
- Ph.D. Linguistics & Asian Languages and Cultures: Japanese
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Conflict in Japanese Conversation
- M.A. Far Eastern Languages and Literatures: Japanese
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Kokonchomonjû: Integrative techniques in a thirteenth-century setsuwa collection
- M.A. Linguistics
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Major field: General linguistics
- B.A. Geology
- Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Work Experience
- College of Humanities (2024 - Ongoing)
- College of Humanities (2017 - 2024)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2015 - 2017)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2010 - 2015)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (2009 - Ongoing)
- Year-in-Japan Program, Konan University (2009 - 2010)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2008 - 2009)
- Department of English Language and Culture & Center for Foreign Language Education, Shimane University (2003 - 2004)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (1996 - 2009)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (1990 - 1996)
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2022-23 Courses
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Advanced Japanese
JPN 301 (Spring 2023) -
Advanced Japanese
JPN 302 (Spring 2023) -
Advanced Japanese
JPN 302 (Fall 2022) -
Intro to General Ed Experience
UNIV 101 (Fall 2022) -
Japan
JPN 495B (Fall 2022) -
Topics in Japanese Ling
JPN 496C (Fall 2022)
2020-21 Courses
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Senior Capstone
BGS 498 (Spring 2021)
2019-20 Courses
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Adv Practice In Japanese
JPN 422 (Spring 2020) -
Adv Practice Jpnese Lang
JPN 421 (Spring 2020) -
Advanced Japanese
JPN 302 (Spring 2020) -
Intro To Japanese Ling
JPN 411 (Spring 2020) -
Japan
JPN 495B (Spring 2020)
2018-19 Courses
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Dissertation
JPN 920 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Internship
JPN 593 (Summer I 2018) -
Dissertation
JPN 920 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
JPN 920 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Dissertation
JPN 920 (Spring 2017) -
Grammar, Usage & Composition
FREN 302 (Spring 2017) -
Intermediate Japanese
JPN 201 (Spring 2017) -
Intermediate Japanese
JPN 202 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
JPN 920 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Dissertation
JPN 920 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Jones, K. A. (2008). Style Shifting in Japanese. Book co-edited with Tsuyoshi Ono.. John Benjamins.
- Jones, K. A. (2006). Japanese Korean Linguistics 14. Conference proceedings co-edited with Tim Vance. CSLI Publications.
- Jones, K. L., & Jones, K. A. (1990). Conflict in Japanese conversation.. U.M.I. Dissertation Information Service.
Chapters
- Jones, K. A. (2008). Conversation and Grammar: Approaching so-called conditionals in Japanese. In Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives(pp 21-51 pp). London and New York: Continuum Publishing.
- Jones, K. A. (2008). The Messy Reality of Style Shifting. In Style Shifting in Japanese(p. 7). John Benjamins.
- Jones, K. A. (2005). 文法規則の使用と形式の選択の実際会話における「条件文」観察から (Grammatical rules and choice of forms: conditionals in naturally occurring conversation). In 言語学と日本語教育 IV [Linguistics and Japanese Language Education IV(pp 73-85). Tokyo: Kuroshio.: Tokyo: Kuroshio.
- Jones, K. A. (2004). Managing Topics of Conversation in Japanese. In Hidden and Open Conflict in Japanese Conversational Interaction(pp 29-64 pp). Tokyo, Kuroshio: Tokyo, Kuroshio.
- Jones, K. A. (2002). Collective Brainstorming: Using Scenarios to Address Contentious Issues in Curriculum Change. In Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies(pp 459-467). New York: The Feminist Press: New York: The Feminist Press.
- Jones, K. A. (2002). Productive Tensions: "Global Processes, Local Lives" at the University of Arizona. In Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies(pp 430-435 pp). New York: The Feminist Press: New York: The Feminist Press.
- Jones, K. A. (2001). Reconciling Textbook Dialogues and Naturally Occurring Talk: 'What We Think We Do Is Not What We Do'. In Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching(pp 1-13).
- Jones, K. A. (2001). 会話における認知的側面と話者間の相互作用:日本語教育への提案 (The Cognitively Based and Interactionally Situated Nature of Talk: Suggestions to Japanese Language Pedagogy). In 言語学と日本語教育 II [Linguistics and Japanese Language Education II](pp 181-196). this is an expanded version of the 2001 Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching publication: this is an expanded version of the 2001 Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching publication.
- Jones, K. A. (1995). Masked Negotiation in a Japanese Work Setting. In The Discourse of Negotiation: Studies of Language in the Workplace(pp 141-158). Oxford: Pergamon Press: Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Journals/Publications
- Ono, T., & Jones, K. (2008). The messy reality of style shifting. Pragmatics and beyond. New series, 180, 1-7.
- Jones, K. A. (2007). The Development of Pragmatic Competence in Children Learning Japanese as a Second Language. Selected Papers from Pragmatics in the CJK classroom: The State of the Art, 141-169.
- Jones, K. A. (2005). Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies for Japanese Postsecondary Foreign Language Pedagogy. 島根大学外国語教育センタージャーナル (Journal of the Center for Foreign Language Education, Shimane University), 1, 147-166.
- Jones, K. A. (2005). Discourse and Language Pedagogy. Special issue of journal co-edited with Tsuyoshi Ono. Japanese Language and Literature, 39, 193.
- Jones, K. A. (2005). Discourse-Centered Approaches to Japanese Language Pedagogy. Japanese Language and Literature, 39, 237-254.
- Jones, K. A. (2003). Framework for Post-Basic Japanese. The Association of Teachers of Japanese, 24.
- Jones, K. A. (1999). Standards for Japanese Language Learning. Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century, 325-360.
- 衣畑, 智., 田窪, 行., 永井, 佳., 中山, 峰., Vance, T. J., Strauss, S., Sohn, S. S., Sohn, H., Silva, D. J., Quinn, C. J., Mcgloin, N. H., Mcclure, W., Mccawley, N. A., Kim, K., Jones, K., Japanese, S. C., Iwasaki, S., Hoji, H., Haig, J. H., , Dikken, M. D., et al. (1999). Japanese/Korean linguistics. Language, 75(4), 816. doi:10.2307/417739More infoJapanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, so a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The papers in this volume are intended to further collective and collaborative research in both languages. The contributors discuss aspects of language acquisition, discourse, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, morphology, typology, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. The papers were presented at the Southern California Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference in September 1991. Contributors to this volume are Patricia M. Clancy, Seiko Yamaguchi Fujii, Shoichi Iwasaki, Kyu-hyun Kim, Yoshiko Matsumoto, Shigeko Okamoto, Sung-Ock S. Sohn, Kyung-Hee Suh, Eunjoo Han, Jongho Jun, Ongmi Kang, David James Silva, Noriko Akatsuka, Shoji Azuma, Soonja Choi, Bruce L. Derwing, Yeo Bom Yoon, Sook Whan Cho, Tsuyoshi Ono, Hiroko Yamashita, Laurie Stowe, Mineharu Nakayama, Ruriko Kawashima, Masanori Nakamaura, Shin Watanabe, Dong-In Cho, Stanley Dubinsky, Hiroto Hoshi, Yasua Ishii, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jae Hong Lee, Sookhee Lee, Young-Suk Lee, and Shigeo Tonoike.
- Jones, K. A. (1993). 日本語のコンフリクト時の話し合い (Negotiating Conflicts in Japanese. 日本語 学 (Nihongogaku; Japanese Language Studies), 12(4), 68-74.
- Jones, K. A. (1992). A Question of Context: Directive Use at a Morris Team Meeting. Language in Society, 21, 427-445.