Steve Moody

Biography:

Steve Moody received an MA and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literature from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an MA in Economics from The Ohio State University. His interests are in sociolinguistics and intercultural communication, focusing on how foreigners use linguistic and cultural capital to manage identities in workplace and other professional settings. His research uses qualitative (discourse and conversation analysis) and quantitative (applied statistics and corpus-based) methods.

Degrees:
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii, 2014
MA, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii, 2012
MA, Economics, The Ohio State University. 2009
BA, Economics and Japanese, Brigham Young University, 2006

Interests:
Intercultural communication and interaction, Japanese sociolinguistics and pragmatics