Taranee Cao, Ph.D.

I am born and raised in Mainland China. Under culture import from Japan, I developed a passion for Japanese and Japanese pop culture. As a learner of Japanese myself, I look forward to learning together with my students as I teach Japanese at Earlham College. I genuinely enjoy teaching and language learning. In my leisure time, I practice Aikido (since 2012) and the piano.

• Ph.D., Stanford University
• M.A., University of Pittsburgh
• B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
• American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)
• American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
• Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)

honorifics, sociolinguistics, mimetics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, youth language

Cao, Y. (2022). Reexamining Japanese youth language. Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 38(1), 119-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2053

Cao, Y. (2021). Gender in Japanese youth language. Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, 5, 33-42. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/92954