Yumiko Shibata

Yumiko Shibata is a Lecturer of Japanese at the University of California, Davis, located in 324 Sproul Hall. She holds a Ph.D. in Japanese from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Her research focuses on Japanese language pedagogy, with a specialization in sound symbolic words (onomatopoeia, mimetic words, and ideophones). She also explores Conversation Analysis and Multimodality in linguistic contexts. No specific articles, grants, or awards are listed in the provided information.