Dr. Daniel Long

Daniel Long is Associate Professor of Japanese Linguistics at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He completed his M.A. at Osaka University and received his Ph.D. from there in 1995. He has published extensively on Japanese linguistics, particularly on his fieldwork regarding variation and change in the dialects of Western Japan, and dialect attitudes and perceptions. He serves on the editorial board of the Japanese Journal of Language in Society, for which he edited a special issue on "Language Contact in Japan" (2000), and co-edited a special issue on "Japanese Sociolinguistics" (1996) for American Speech, while serving on the editorial board for that journal. His publications (editor, co-editor) include Ogasawara-gaku Kotohajime (An Introduction to Ogasawara Studies, 2002), The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology II (2002), Ouyou Shakai Gengogaku (Applied Sociolinguistics, 2000), Sociolinguistics in Japanese Contexts (1999), The Linguistic Culture of the Ogasawara Islands (1998), and Japanese Sociolinguistics Illustrated (1997).