{"id":11,"date":"2024-11-20T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:30:56","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"249\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2024\/11\/Endosensei.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lilac.msu.edu\/mutsuko-endo-hudson\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lilac.msu.edu\/mutsuko-endo-hudson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mutsuko Endo Hudson<\/a>&nbsp;is Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, and Director of the Japanese Program at Michigan State University (MSU). In summer she regularly teaches in the Master\u2019s Program in Japanese Language Pedagogy at Columbia University. Her M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1989) are in linguistics, both from the University of Michigan. She received her BA in Japan in 1973 with a major in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language, and has taught in the U.S. since then. She is a recipient of the 2004 Japanese Foreign Minister&#8217;s Certificate of Commendation (\u5916\u52d9\u5927\u81e3\u8868\u5f70), 1993-94 MSU Teacher-Scholar Award, and 1992-93 Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her major research areas are in linguistics (pragmatics, discourse, and functional grammar) and Japanese language pedagogy. Her recent publications include:&nbsp;<em>Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide<\/em>&nbsp;(2013) and&nbsp;<em>Workbook<\/em>&nbsp;(2014; co-author);&nbsp;<em>Japanese Language and Literature<\/em>&nbsp;46-1, Special Section in Honor of Dr. S. Makino: Current Issues in Japanese Language Education, Acquisition, and Linguistics (2012; editor); Japanese\/Korean Linguistics 13 (2008; co-editor); and articles such as\u300c\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u80fd\u529b\u8a66\u9a13N2 \u53d7\u9a13\u6e96\u5099\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u8b1b\u5ea7\uff1a\u5b9f\u8df5\u3068\u305d\u306e\u610f\u7fa9\u300d(2014),\u300c\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u5927\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u8a00\u8a9e\u4f7f\u7528\uff1a\u8cea\u554f\u306b\u5bfe\u3059\u308b\u8fd4\u7b54\u306e\u5f62\u3092\u4e2d\u5fc3\u306b\u300d(2014), \u2018Three uses of&nbsp;<em>kata<\/em>&nbsp;\u2018person\u2019 in Japanese\u2019 (2012), \u2018Student honorifics usage in conversations with professors\u2019 (2011), and \u2018<em>Riyuu&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cReason\u201d for<em>&nbsp;nai desu<\/em>&nbsp;and other semi-polite forms\u2019 (2008). She is currently working with co-editors J. Mori and Y. Matsumoto on a book entitled&nbsp;<em>Advances in Japanese Pragmatics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutsuko Endo Hudson&nbsp;is Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, and Director of the Japanese Program at Michigan State University (MSU). In summer she regularly teaches in the Master\u2019s Program in Japanese Language Pedagogy at Columbia University. Her M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. (1989) are in linguistics, both from the University of Michigan. She received her BA in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/seatj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}