Tim Greer Ed.D.
Associate Professor
School of Languages and Communication
Kobe University
My research interests focus on naturally occurring interaction in Japanese and English. My doctoral thesis is on some of the ways a group of multi-ethnic Japanese (so-called "haafu") kids accomplish aspects of their identity through bilingual interaction. This study combines ethnography with micro discourse analytic approaches such as Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis.
Recently I have also been using CA to look at how novice English speakers achieve intersubjectivity in their second language.
