Cindi L SturtzSreetharan, PhD

Contact Information

Name: Cindi L SturtzSreetharan, PhD

Title: Associate Professor

Office Location: MND 4034

Email: csturtz@csus.edu

Office Phone: Please use email

Mailing Address: Sacramento State 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6043

Office Hours: TBD

Where to find me : 4034 Mendocino Hall

2010 With Janet S. Shibamoto and Debra J Occhi. Finding Mr. Right: New looks at gendered

modernity in Japanese Televised Romances.

Published as part of the Special Issue: Language in

Public Spaces in Japan Journal of Japanese Studies 30(3): 409-17.

2009 "Ore" and "Omae": Japanese men's use of first- and second-person pronouns

Pragmatics 19(2): 253-278.

2008 Osaka Aunties: Negotiating Honorific Language, Gender, and Regionality in Brown, Amy

& Josh Iorio (eds.) Proceedings of SALSA XVI: 2008 Texas Linguistic Forum 52: 163 – 173.

2006 I read the Nikkei, too: Crafting positions of authority and masculinity in Japanese

Conversations, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 16(2): 173 – 193.

2006 Gentlemanly Gender? Japanese Men’s Politeness in Casual Conversations,

Journal of Sociolinguistics: 10(1): 70-92.

2004 Japanese Men’s Linguistic Stereotypes and Realities: Conversations from the Kansai and

Kanto regions in Okamoto, S. and (Shibamoto)Smith, J. (eds.) Japanese Language, Gender,

and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, Oxford University Press: 275 – 289.

2004 Students, Sarariiman (pl.), and Seniors: Japanese men’s use of “manly” speech register.

Language in Society 33: 81-107.

2002 “Uwaki tte iu no wa attemo ii n janai ka?”: Japanese men’s conversations up-close and

personal. (“It’s alright to have a mistress/affair, isn’t it?”), Japanese Studies 22(1): 49-63.

Linguistic Anthropology

Language and Linguistic Ideologies

Language and Gender (specifically masculinity)

Standardization pressures on regional variation

Japan