Kimberly Jones

Kimberly Jones (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She directed the University of Arizona Japanese language program for many years and has also served as department head of East Asian Studies and vice dean of the College of Humanities. A sociolinguist, she is particularly interested in gender and language, in how language pedagogy can be informed by the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and in children's language acquisition, attrition, and code-switching. Nationally, she has served on the board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, as Language and Linguistics Editor of Japanese Language and Literature, and as a consultant for College Board and Educational Testing Service working on curriculum and test development for the Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture program.

Interests: sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; gender and language use; second language pedagogy; child language acquisition and attrition; code-switching; discourses of childrearing; early childhood and elementary education in Japan