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Full-time Faculty

Shoko Hamano

Shoko Hamano

Professor of Japanese and International Affairs
Director, Language Center

Rome 464
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-9277
Fax: (202) 994-1512
E-mail: hamano@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Florida

Expertise:

Japanese linguistics; historical phonology; Japanese pedagogy

Background:

Professor Shoko Hamano received her Ph.D. in Anthropological Linguistics in 1986 from the University of Florida. She teaches lower and intermediate level Japanese language courses. Dr. Hamano received GW's Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching in 2004.

Her written work includes: The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese (CSLI, 1998); "Voicing of Obstruents in Old Japanese" in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics (July 2000); and Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (University of Hawaii Press, 2002). Dr. Hamano is currently involved in a research project concerning a northern dialect of Japanese and in an online Japanese grammar project.

Courses Taught:

Japn 1 Basic Japanese
Japn 2 Basic Japanese
Japn 3 Intermediate Japanese
Japn 4 Intermediate Japanese
Japn 105 Advanced Japanese
Japn 106 Advanced Japanese
Japn 108 Readings in Modern Japanese
Japn 121 Advanced Conversation and Composition
Japn 162 Japanese Culture Through Film

Last update: 09.04.08