Researching Vulgarity in Japanese (Presentation for Stanford's East Asian Linguistics Workshop)

This is a live recording of an online presentation I gave to the East Asian Linguistics Workshop at Stanford, discussing the history of research on Japanese vulgarity and my own contributions to the topic. My research mentioned in the presentation: Robertson, W. (2021). Register phenomena as international news: Risk, register, and translation in Japanese coverage of the 2020 US Presidential debate. Continuum, 36(3), 448-463. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...) Kruk, J., & Robertson, W. (2025). Peripheral Linguistic Brutality: Metal Language in the Asia Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press. (https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/peri...) All other studies are in press but I'll put links to them here when they get published for people from the future. Prior presentation (more depth) on discussions of vulgarity in Ado's USSEEWA:    • Much ADO About Nothing: Metapragmatic Disc...   #japanese #nihongo #日本語 #learnjapanese #linguistics #japaneselanguage