Professor Yan Wang
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Professor Yan Wang, a Japanese linguist in the Modern Languages Department, has recently published an article in a book on Japanese pragmatics. Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which examines the ways that context influences meaning in language. Prof. Wang’s work, “From subjectivity to intersubjectivity: a discourse pragmatic study of the Japanese epistemic marker kamo (shirenai)” appears as a chapter in a volume that showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field and includes cutting-edge papers from many prestigious researchers in the field of Japanese sociolinguistics. This article will be of interest to students of Japanese and will soon be available in Hedberg Library