Jun Ohashi is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at The University of Melbourne. His ongoing research interests include interpersonal pragmatics, (im)politeness, critical discourse analysis, media literacy and linguistic rituals.
Jun is the author of Thanking and Politeness in Japanese (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and has published papers in the Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, Journal of Japanese Studies, and many more. He has contributed a book chapter to two books on the post 3.11 media literacy (Hitsuji, 2015, 2017); the former analyses the discourse of government officials at a series of press conferences after the Great Tohoku earthquake, and the latter investigates the realization of wakimae (discernment) of Japanese government officials protecting national interests in the post 3.11 disaster discourse. His recent research interests include new roles of the Japanese language education in Australian Higher education (a book chapter with H. Ohashi, Routledge, 2015) and the discourse of neo-liberalism and the university world rankings (with H. Ohashi, Journal of Oceanian Education Studies, 2016). Jun’s current research on progress is on small talk, and he uses his innovative analytical tool, the balance sheet of obligations, to make sense of how conversationalists evaluate small talk. His pilot study is featured in Chapter 11, Impoliteness and relationality (Ohashi and Chang 2017) in the Handbook of Linguistic (im)politeness (Culpeper, Haugh and Kádár eds. 2017) published by Palgrave Macmillan. More recent publications include a longitudinal study of email exchanges in a Japanese community (Journal of Pragmatics) in 2018 and 'Small talk as ritual' (forthcoming).
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FEATURED Book Chapter
雑談に表出する依頼と承諾 ―「です・ます」体の使い分けと， 自然会話を素材とする教材への応用の観点から― An adjacency pair, 'Request - acceptance' and multiple functions of the desu/masu forms emerging in small talk: Using natural conversational data in Japanese language teaching.
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The Nation over Gender and Class: Media Framing of Comfort Women in South Korea and Japan
Journal article
Japanese language education and Japanese Studies as intercultural learning
Book Chapter
An emerging role-identity and honorifics: A longitudinal study of email exchanges in a Jap..
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(Im)politeness and relationality
Book Chapter
Aiming for language education beyond language acquisition: Japanese and English language i..
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メディアリテラシーで斬る官の文言とクールジャパン政策
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Scholarly Works
Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Jun Ohashi.
Honours, Awards and Fellowships
The Japan Foundation Fellowship
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Senior Lecturer
Asia Institute
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Philosophy
University of Dundee
Bachelor of Arts
Tamagawa University