The Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

1. Editors’ profiles Yoshiyuki Asahi (Ph.D., Osaka University, 2004) Associate professor, Department of Language Variation and Change, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Asahi works on language variation and change through dialect contact. He is the author of “Towards an integration of studies in honorifics and real-time language change studies”, The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, (with Kenjiro Matsuda) (Vol.11. no.1, pp.39-50, 2008), Saharin-ni Nokosareta Nihongo Karafuto Hogen [A Japanese dialect of Karafuto in Sakhalin Russia] (Meiji Shoin, 2012), Nyutaun Kotoba no Keisei-ni Kansuru Shakaigengogakuteki Kenkyu [A sociolinguistic study on the formation of a new town koine] (Hituzi Syobo, 2008), and the editor of Sociolinguistics illustrated (2 edition) (Akiyama Shoten, 2010).