Sociocultural Linguist Specializing in Japanese Media and Character Language
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The University of TokyoHannah Dahlberg-Dodd is a Project Assistant Professor at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo, with expertise in linguistics, media studies, and character language. She earned her PhD in Japanese Linguistics from The Ohio State University in 2019 and was a Hosei International Fund Fellow from 2019-2020. Her research focuses on fictionalized speech styles in popular media, exploring their production, consumption, and perception in relation to characters (kyara) and personae. Dahlberg-Dodd's work spans various aspects of language in Japanese media, including first-person pronoun use in shonen anime, script variation in yuri magazines, and katakana transformations in fantasy video games. Her notable publications examine o-jōsama kotoba in yuri narratives, script variation as audience design in Japanese yuri comics, the role of authorship in the post-internet age, and masculine ideologies in the speech of Japanese shōnen protagonists. With teaching experience in Japanese language, linguistics, and media studies, Dahlberg-Dodd contributes significantly to the field of sociocultural linguistics, particularly in the context of Japanese popular culture and media representation.