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OTOMO RURIKO

Research Faculty of Media and Communication　Media and Communication　Public Language and CommunicationAssociate Professor
Center for Language LearningAssociate Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Degree
  • Ph.D, The University of Hong Kong
  • M.A, The Australian National University
  • 博士, 香港大学
■ URL
researchmap URLホームページURL■ Various IDs
Researcher number
  • 10815939
ORCID IDJ-Global ID■ Research Keywords and Fields
Research Keyword
  • Language Policy and Planning
  • Applied Linguistics
  • 移民研究
  • Language policy
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Multilingualism
  • Migration
Research Field
  • Humanities & Social Sciences, Linguistics
■ Educational Organization

Career

■ Career
Career
  • Oct. 2020 - Present
    Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Associate Professor
  • Oct. 2017 - Sep. 2020
    Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Assistant professor

Research activity information

■ Papers
■ Other Activities and Achievements
■ Books and other publications
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • A Diachronic Analysis of Representations of Migrant Workers in Japan’s EPA Program: Focusing on Language
    Ruriko Otomo
    International Association of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management Conference 2025, 30 Oct. 2025, English, Oral presentation
    29 Oct. 2025 - 31 Oct. 2025, 31223863
  • Linguistic simplification for inclusion or exclusion?: Focusing on the discourse of “Easy/Considerate Japanese” movement
    Ruriko Otomo
    AILA 2024 World Congress, 15 Aug. 2024, English, Oral presentation
    12 Aug. 2024 - 16 Aug. 2024
  • |Language and Healthcare Work: Focusing on Trade, Migration, and Policy Discourse
    Ruriko Otomo
    Language and Identity Series Workshop, 21 Jun. 2023, Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo, English, Public discourse
    21 Jun. 2023 - 21 Jun. 2023, Tokyo, In Japan and elsewhere, the major focus of language policy research has been language-in-education policies primarily because (language) education is one of the main vehicles for reproduction, be it social, economic, political, or symbolic. Recently, however, researchers have called for a renewed approach to language policing and for more attention to other forms of policies in which language, human communication and sociocultural issues get represented in the policy discourses. Resonating with these important calls in the field, my talk focuses on a free-trade policy as a form of language policy that requires serious scholarly attention.

    The free-trade policy in question is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) singed between Japan and Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam respectively since 2008. It enables the Japanese side to manage the workforce mobility of migrant nurses and caregivers mainly by means of pre-employment (language) training and the Japanese-medium licensure examinations.

    By presenting part of her analysis of the language management devices and that of policy discourses surrounding the EPA, Dr. OTOMO Ruriko argues the EPA is expected to bring little fundamental change to Japan’s language policy in the near-term future. While the social ageing and the pressing need for (workforce) migration spell an abundance of opportunities for multilingual human encounters as well as ideological negotiation and shifts, the EPA is found to reinforce or capitalise on the existing “old” ideologies rather than to enhance multilingualism as well as social justice for the benefit of the migrant population., 31223863, [Invited], [Domestic Conference]

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  • Academics as language policy arbiters
    大友瑠璃子
    日本言語政策学会第２３回研究大会, 13 Jun. 2021, Oral presentation
  • The Discourse of Self-learning: Insights from a Language Policy Study
    RURIKO OTOMO
    The 2019 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, 09 Mar. 2019, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • The Making of Docile Foreign Healthcare Workers: The Case of Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements with Southeast Asian Countries
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Sociolinguistic Symposium 22, 28 Jun. 2018, English, Nominated symposium
    [International presentation]
  • 言語政策としての経済連携協定：エスノグラフィーの可能性
    大友瑠璃子
    社会言語科学会第41回大会, 11 Mar. 2018, Japanese, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
  • Researcher positionality in language policy research
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Language and Future Academic Conference and the 4th Emerging Scholars’ Workshop, Aug. 2017, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Free-trade agreements and the commodification of migrant healthcare workers: The case of Japa
    RURIKO OTOMO
    The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism 11, 15 Jun. 2017, English, Invited oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • What’s behind language problem talks?: Implementational and ideological space for the Economic Partnership Agreement as a language policy
    RURIKO OTOMO
    The 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2017, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Language policy in an elderly care home in Japan: Local interpretation and appropriation of the Economic Partnership Agreement
    RURIKO OTOMO
    International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, Nov. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • The ethnography of language policy in an elderly care home in Japan: The case of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning, Sep. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Language policy in a private English language school in Japan: A teacher's experience
    Tao, Jian; RURIKO OTOMO
    The 3rd Emerging Scholars' Workshop ‘Linguistic diversity: Challenges and responses’, Aug. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Analyzing a language policy process in the Economic Partnership Agreement
    RURIKO OTOMO
    The 3rd Emerging Scholars' Workshop ‘Linguistic diversity: Challenges and responses’, Aug. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Trade agreement and commodification of migrants
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Symposium on Commodification and Consumption of Language Education, Jul. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • The complexity of teacher identity in a private English language school: a case of a Japanese teacher
    Tao, Jian; RURIKO OTOMO
    Symposium on Commodification and Consumption of Language Education, Jul. 2016, English, Invited oral presentation
    [Invited], [International presentation]
  • Language policy in super-aged Japan: The case of the Economic Partnership Agreement
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Linguapax Asia International Symposium, Jun. 2016, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • Language policy in super-aged Japan: The case of the Economic Partnership Agreement
    RURIKO OTOMO
    Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning, Sep. 2015, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • The ideological construction of teachers in post-Fukushima
    Tollefson, James W; RURIKO OTOMO
    The 2015 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Mar. 2015, English, Oral presentation
    [International presentation]
  • The complex construction of teacher identity in a private English language school: A case of a Japanese bilingual teacher
    Tao, Jian; RURIKO OTOMO
    The 5th Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Jun. 2014, English, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
  • Keyaki Treebank: Phrase structure with functional information for Japanese
    Butler, Alastair; Hotta, Tomoko; Otomo, Ruriko; Yoshimoto, Kei; Zhou, Zhen; Zhu, Hong
    テキストアノテーションワークショップ, Aug. 2012, Japanese, Public symposium
    [Domestic Conference]
  • 日本語ツリーバンクのアノテーション方針
    吉本啓,周振; 小菅智也; 大友瑠璃子; バトラー,A
    言語処理学会第19回年次大会, Mar. 2012, Japanese, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
  • 1. 児童英検についての一考察：日本のテスト文化を考える
    大友瑠璃子
    日本英語教育学会第42回年次集会, Mar. 2012, Japanese, Oral presentation
    [Domestic Conference]
■ Syllabus
  • 一般教育演習(ﾌﾚｯｼｭﾏﾝｾﾐﾅｰ), 2024年, 学士課程, 全学
  • 言語社会論演習, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • 特別演習（言語研究実践）, 2024年, 修士課程, 国際広報メディア・観光学院
  • 専門横断科目（一般科目）：人文社会科学, 2024年, 学士課程, 専門横断科目
■ Affiliated academic society
  • JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SCIENCES
■ Research Themes
  • 外国人介護人材受け入れに関する言語問題の再検討：言語政策の民族誌からのアプローチ
    科学研究費助成事業 若手研究
    01 Feb. 2020 - 31 Mar. 2025
    大友 瑠璃子
    日本学術振興会, 若手研究, 北海道大学, 20K13021
  • L2 speakers in multi-layered language environments:Translanguaging conversation strategies
    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
    01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2024
    河合 靖; 大友 瑠璃子; 佐野 愛子; 小林 由子; 酒井 優子; 飯田 真紀; 三ツ木 真実; 山田 智久; 杉江 聡子; 横山 吉樹
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Hokkaido University, 19H01276
  • The use of metaphors in palliative care for older persons
    Joint seed funding of Japan-Sweden collaborative projects and short courses
    Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2023
    Ruriko Otomo; Anna Sandgren; Yoshihisa Hirakawa
    MIRAI2.0, Principal investigator
■ Academic and Social Contribution Activities/Other
Media Coverage