Naofumi Tatsumi
Lecturer in Japanese
Office: 516 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30
Phone: (212) 854-5500
Email: nt2358@columbia.edu
Educational Background
PhD: Japanese Linguistics, Purdue University
MA: TESOL, University of Southern Mississippi
BA: Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University
Classes Taught
JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I
Research Interests
Japanese Pragmatics
Compliment Responses
Naofumi Tatsumi specializes in Japanese pragmatics and earned his PhD from Purdue University in 2012. His dissertation is entitled, “Compliment responses: Comparing American learners of Japanese, native Japanese speakers, and American native English speakers.”
Publications
Compliment responses: L2 learners’ rationales behind their responses (Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE), 2015)
Teaching Japanese popular culture via otaku (Proceedings of the SecondTeaching Japan Conference: Between ‘Cool’ and 3-11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today, in press)
American learners’ compliment responses in Japanese (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ 22), 2010)
Japanese loanwords in English (Proceedings of the First Annual Graduate Research Conference, 2007)