Laura Miller (anthropologist)

Miller is a Californio, a descendant of the founding settlers and escort soldiers of the Pueblo de Los Angeles (present day Los Angeles, California) in 1781. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a double major in Asian studies and anthropology in 1977, and completed a Master of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1983 on the topic of aizuchi{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/27659893|title=1983 MA Thesis "Aizuchi: Japanese Listening Behavior" UCLA|last=Miller|first=Laura}} Japanese listening behavior. Her 1988 UCLA doctorate in anthropology was a linguistic anthropology study of interethnic communication among co-workers in Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsl.edu/~umslhistory/Faculty/miller.html|title=Laura Miller|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsl.edu/services/cis/About%20ISP/Faculty%20and%20Staff/chair_japanese.html|title=Endowed Chair: Japanese Studies|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=2019-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212131245/https://www.umsl.edu/services/cis/About%20ISP/Faculty%20and%20Staff/chair_japanese.html|archive-date=2019-02-12|url-status=dead}}

Miller's research interests are in the fields of interdisciplinary Japan studies and linguistic anthropology. She has done research on diverse topics, including divination, the kawaii aesthetic, conduct literature, youth fashion and the beauty industry, and historic figures such as Himiko and Abe no Seimei.{{Cite web|url=http://umsl.academia.edu/LauraMiller|title=Laura Miller {{!}} University of Missouri - St. Louis - Academia.edu|website=umsl.academia.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}} Her linguistic anthropology research has included studies of Japanese youth slang, writing systems, gendered linguistic performances, folklinguistic theories, loanwords, and interethnic communication. Miller also produced some research on Russian language acquisition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsl.edu/~umslhistory/Faculty/miller.html|title=Laura Miller|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsl.edu/services/cis/About%20ISP/Faculty%20and%20Staff/chair_japanese.html|title=Endowed Chair: Japanese Studies|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=2019-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212131245/https://www.umsl.edu/services/cis/About%20ISP/Faculty%20and%20Staff/chair_japanese.html|archive-date=2019-02-12|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://lauramiller61.wordpress.com/work-research/|title=Work/Research|date=2018-11-27|website=Laura's Website|access-date=2019-02-11}}

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History. Edited by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland. University of California Press, 2018.{{Cite book|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297739/diva-nation|title=Diva Nation|date=June 2018 |isbn=9780520297739 }}

Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan. Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine Yano. Stanford University Press, 2013.{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/2972668|title=Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan}}

Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan. Edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller. University of California Press, 2011.{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/355948|title=Manners & Mischief}}

Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics. University of California Press, 2006.{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/355947|title=Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics}}

Bad Girls of Japan. Edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.{{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/355950|title=Bad Girls of Japan}}

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"Purikura: Expressive energy in female self photography." In Introducing Japanese Popular Culture, edited by Alisa Freedman and Toby Slade. Routledge, 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Introducing-Japanese-Popular-Culture-1st-Edition/Freedman-Slade/p/book/9781138852105|title=Introducing Japanese Popular Culture: 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge|website=Routledge.com|date=11 December 2017 |access-date=2019-02-11}}

[https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/index.php/ta/article/view/29/29 "Girl culture in East Asia."] Transnational Asia: an online interdisciplinary journal 1(2) 2017.{{Cite journal|url=https://transnationalasia.rice.edu/index.php/ta/article/view/29/29|title=Girl Culture in East Asia {{!}} Transnational Asia {{!}} Rice University|journal=Transnational Asia|date=2017 |doi=10.25613/7z4f-g488 |access-date=2023-07-29 |last1=Miller |first1=Laura |volume=1 |issue=2 }}

"Japanese tarot cards." ASIA Network Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Art 24 (1), 2017.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2017-04-05|title=Japanese Tarot Cards|journal=ASIANetwork Exchange|volume=24|issue=1|pages=1–28|doi=10.16995/ane.244|issn=1943-9946|doi-access=free}}

"Japan’s trendy Word Grand Prix and Kanji of the Year: Commodified language forms in multiple contexts." In Language and Materiality: Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations, edited by Jillian Cavanaugh and Shalini Shankar. Cambridge University Press, 2017.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-and-materiality/japans-trendy-word-grand-prix-and-kanji-of-the-year-commodified-language-forms-in-multiple-contexts/AE6597030754193E0B2F2153CB0A3398|chapter=Japan's Trendy Word Grand Prix and Kanji of the Year: Commodified Language Forms in Multiple Contexts|last=Miller|first=Laura|title=Language and Materiality |date=October 2017|website=Language and Materiality: Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations|pages=43–62 |doi=10.1017/9781316848418.003 |isbn=9781316848418 |access-date=2019-02-11}}

"[http://www.academia.edu/22932916/Linguistic_Folk_Theories_and_Foreign_Celebrities_of_the_Past Linguistic folk theories and foreign celebrities of the past]." Japanese Language and Literature 49 (2), 2015.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|title=Linguistic Folk Theories and Foreign Celebrities of the Past|url=https://www.academia.edu/22932916}} 

"Rebranding Himiko, the Shaman Queen of Ancient History." Mechademia, An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2014-10-23|title=Rebranding Himiko, the Shaman Queen of Ancient History|journal=Mechademia|volume=9|issue=1|pages=179–198|doi=10.1353/mec.2014.0015|s2cid=122601314|issn=2152-6648}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285478409|title=Rebranding Himiko, the Shaman Queen of Ancient History|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2019-02-11}}

"Cute masquerade and the pimping of Japan." International Journal of Japanese Sociology 20 (1), 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230190469|title=Cute Masquerade and the Pimping of Japan|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2011|title=Cute Masquerade and the Pimping of Japan|journal=International Journal of Japanese Sociology|volume=20|issue=1|pages=18–29|doi=10.1111/j.1475-6781.2011.01145.x|issn=1475-6781}}

"[http://www.academia.edu/7479209/Subversive_script_and_novel_graphs_in_Japanese_girls_culture Subversive script and novel graphs in Japanese girls’ culture]." Language & Communication 31 (1), 2011.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|title=Subversive script and novel graphs in Japanese girls' culture|url=https://www.academia.edu/7479209|journal=Language & Communication|volume=31|issue=1|pages=16–26|issn=0271-5309|doi=10.1016/j.langcom.2010.11.003|year=2011}}

[http://www.academia.edu/28229200/Japans_Zoomorphic_Urge "Japan’s Zoomorphic Urge."] ASIA Network Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 18 (1), 2010.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/28229200|title=Japan's Zoomorphic Urge|last=Miller|first=Laura|journal=ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |year=2010 |volume=17|issue=2 |page=69 |doi=10.16995/ane.208 |s2cid=191395100 |doi-access=free }}

"Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard." Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2008|title=Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard|journal=Mechademia|volume=3|issue=1|pages=30–45|doi=10.1353/mec.0.0034|s2cid=121434600|issn=2152-6648}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236812441|title=Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2008|title=Extreme Makeover for a Heian-Era Wizard|jstor=41510901|journal=University of Minnesota Press|volume=3|pages= 30–45}}

"Those naughty teenage girls: Japanese Kogals, slang, and media assessments." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14 (2), 2004.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2004|title=Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments|journal=Journal of Linguistic Anthropology|volume=14|issue=2|pages=225–247|doi=10.1525/jlin.2004.14.2.225|issn=1548-1395}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216842416|title=Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=December 2004|title=Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments|jstor=43102647|journal=Journal of Linguistic Anthropology|volume= 14| issue = 2|pages= 225–247|doi=10.1525/jlin.2004.14.2.225}}

"You are doing burikko! Censoring/scrutinizing artificers of cute femininity in Japanese." In Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, edited by Shigeko Okamoto and Janet Shibamoto Smith. Oxford University Press, 2004.{{Cite journal|last=Grummitt|first=John|date=2009–2018|title=Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural models and real people - Book Review|url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/99/07/04/99070469800929350109940971405962010880/SILEBR_2009_018.pdf|journal=SIL Electronic Book Reviews|pages=2|via=SIL}}{{Cite journal|last=Takekuro|first=Makiko|date=2006|title=Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People, Edited by Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith|journal=Journal of Sociolinguistics|volume=10|issue=5|pages=679–683|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9841.2006.00302_2.x|issn=1467-9841}}

"[https://books.google.com/books?id=28wDbfPg7QsC&dq=%22Wasei+eigo%3A+English+%E2%80%98loanwords%E2%80%99+coined+in+Japan.%22+In+The+Life+of+Language%3A+Papers+in+Linguistics+in+Honor+of+William+Bright&pg=PA139 Wasei eigo: English ‘loanwords’ coined in Japan]." In The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright, edited by Jane Hill, P.J. Mistry and Lyle Campbell. Mouton/De Gruyter, 1997.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28wDbfPg7QsC&q=%22Wasei+eigo%3A+English+%E2%80%98loanwords%E2%80%99+coined+in+Japan.%22+In+The+Life+of+Language%3A+Papers+in+Linguistics+in+Honor+of+William+Bright&pg=PA139|title=The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright|last=Bright|first=William|date=1998|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110156331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/bibliogs/LMJapanese.html|title=Laura Miller's Articles on Japanese|website=www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}}

"[https://books.google.com/books?id=YJR_AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Folklinguistic+theories+of+language+learning%22+%28with+Ralph+Ginsberg%29.+In+Second+Language+Acquisition+in+a+Study+Abroad+Context%2C+edited+by+Barbara+F.+Freed%2C+John+Benjamins%2C+1995.&pg=PA236 Folklinguistic theories of language learning]" (with Ralph Ginsberg). In Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context, edited by Barbara F. Freed, John Benjamins, 1995.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJR_AgAAQBAJ&q=%22Folklinguistic+theories+of+language+learning%22+%28with+Ralph+Ginsberg%29.+In+Second+Language+Acquisition+in+a+Study+Abroad+Context%2C+edited+by+Barbara+F.+Freed%2C+John+Benjamins%2C+1995.&pg=PA236|title=Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition: A History|last=Thomas|first=Margaret|date=2004-07-31|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134388547}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/sibil.9.18mil|chapter=Folklinguistic Theories of Language Learning|last=Miller|first=Laura{ Ginsberg|title=Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context |website=sibil.9.18mil|series=Studies in Bilingualism |year=1995 |volume=9 |page=293 |doi=10.1075/sibil.9.18mil |isbn=978-90-272-4114-6 |access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite book|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED392276|title=Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context. Studies in Bilingualism 9|last=Freed|first=Barbara F.|date=1995|publisher=John Benjamins North America, P|isbn=9781556195426}}

"Two aspects of Japanese and American co-worker interaction: Giving instruction and creating rapport." Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences 31 (2), 1995.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/bibliogs/LMJapanese.html|title=Laura Miller's Articles on Japanese|website=www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}}{{Cite journal|title=SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research|doi=10.1177/0021886395312004|s2cid=146797810}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250959643|title=Two Aspects of Japanese and American Co-Worker Interaction: Giving Instructions and Creating Rapport|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2019-02-11}}

"Japanese and American indirectness." Journal of Asian and Pacific Communication 5 (1 & 2), 1994.{{Cite journal|title=SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research|doi=10.1177/0021886395312004|s2cid=146797810}}

"[https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/elanguage/pragmatics/article/view/188.html Japanese and American meetings and what goes on before them.]" Pragmatics 4 (2), 1994.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=2009-12-21|title=Japanese and American meetings and what goes on before them: A case study of co-worker misunderstandings|url=http://188.html/|journal=Pragmatics|volume=4|issue=2|issn=1018-2101}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/bibliogs/LMJapanese.html|title=Laura Miller's Articles on Japanese|website=www.sas.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-02-11}}

"[http://www.academia.edu/25806197/Verbal_listening_behavior_in_conversations_between_Japanese_and_Americans Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans]." In The Pragmatics of Intercultural and International Communication, edited by Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren, John Benjamins, 1991.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|title=Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans|url=https://www.academia.edu/25806197|journal=Pragmatics & Beyond |series=New Series|year=1991 |volume=6 |issue=3 |page=111 |doi=10.1075/pbns.6.3.07mil |isbn=978-90-272-5016-2 |s2cid=148183260 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pStrnQAACAAJ|title=The Pragmatics of Intercultural and International Communication: Selected Papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987 (volume III), and the Ghent Symposium on Intercultural Communication|last1=Blommaert|first1=Jan|last2=Verschueren|first2=Jef|date=1991-01-01|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=9789027250162}}

"The Japanese language and honorific speech: Is there a nihongo without keigo?" Penn Review of Linguistics 13, 1989.{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Laura|date=1989|title=The Japanese language and honorific speech: is there a nihongo without keigo?|journal=Penn Review of Linguistics|volume=13}}

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