Yumiko Ohara

Yumiko Ohara, PhD

Associate Professor, Linguistics

(808) 932-7912

yumikoo@hawaii.edu

(808) 932-7651

Portable Building 18, room 1

Hoʻolauna

ʻO Dr. Yumiko Ohara ka mea hoʻolaukaʻi o ka papahana laepua no ke kālaiʻōlelo o Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani. Pili kāna noiʻi i ka ʻōlelo a me ka pikoʻu, ka ʻōlelo a me ke ola kino, ka ʻōlelo me ka manaʻo, a me ke kākoʻo a ke kōkua ʻana i kā hana hoʻōla ʻōlelo ʻōiwi. Ua komo nui ʻo ia i ka hoʻoikaika hou ʻana i nā ʻōlelo ʻōiwi ma Iapāna e like me ka ʻōlelo Ainu a me nā ʻōlelo Ryukyu mai ka makahiki 2008.

Yumiko Ohara is the coordinator of the Linguistics program here at UH Hilo. Her research interests span from language and identity, language and wellbeing, language ideology, as well as providing support and cooperation for language revitalization efforts domestically and internationally. She has been especially involved in revitalization efforts for Ainu, Ryukyuans, and the Hawaiian language since 2008.

Ala Hoʻonaʻauao (Educational Background)

2000 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Japanese Linguistics.

1994 Master of Arts (M.A.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Japanese Linguistics.

1993 Master of Arts (M.A.). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Linguistics.

1990 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). University of Texas. Linguistics

Nā Paʻina (Published Materials)

Ohara, Yumiko and Seira Machida. 2023. Uchinaaguchi learning through Indigenous critical pedagogy: Why do some people in Yomitan not know Yomitan mountain? Languages 8: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages8010017T2019.
Ohara, Yumiko and Yuki Okada. 2022. Creation and expansion of a safe place to be Ainu: The Urespa project. In Martin Mielick, Ryuko Kubota, and Luke Lawrence (eds.) Discourses of Identity: Language Learning, Teaching, and Reclamation Perspectives in Japan. 81-96.
Heinrich, Patrick and Yumiko Ohara (eds.) 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics. Oxon and New York.
Ohara, Yumiko. 2016. Reinventing Hawaiian identity: Conception of ethnicity and language in the language revitalization movement. Internationales Asienforum 47, 1-2: 57-80.

Nui nā ʻātikala i paʻi ʻia ma nā puke a me nā puke pai. E hoʻokaʻaʻike mai ke hoihoi e ʻike i kekahi papa inoa o ia mau ʻātikala. [There are numerous journal articles by me printed throughout journals and books. Contact me if you would like a full list of those articles.]