Contact Information
2090A Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Research Areas
Biography
I received my doctorate in East Asian Studies with a specific focus on Discourse and Grammar from the University of Arizona in 2002. I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003, and am currently an associate professor of Japanese linguistics and pedagogy in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. During the academic year of 2019-2020, I serve as Interim Director of Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.
Research Description
My research interests include discourse and grammar, interactional linguistics, historical pragmatics, pedagogical grammar, and teaching Japanese as a foreign language. My research is rooted in a usage-based perspective to language which takes the view that language use shapes language form and meaning.
Education
PhD in East Asian Studies (Discourse and Grammar), University of Arizona
MA in East Asian Studies (Discourse and Grammar), University of Arizona
Exchange: Japan Teacher Training Program, Bryn Mawr College
MA in Teaching: English as a Second Language, Whitworth College
Courses Taught
Elementary Japanese I-II (JAPN 201-202)
Intermediate Japanese I-II (JAPN203-204)
Fourth-year Japanese I-II (JAPN440-441)
Teaching Japanese as a Second Language I-II (JAPN460-461)
Colloquium in EALC: From a language learner to a language teacher (EALC 398)
Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (JAPN430)
East Asian Language Pedagogy (EALC560)
Seminar in SLA: Materials Evaluation and Design for Foreign Language Teaching (EALC/LING588)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Highlighted Publications
Sadler, M. (2014). Co-Constructing Intercultural Views and Identities in a Teaching Methods Class. In B. Dupuy, & L. Waugh (Eds.), Preparing and Supporting K–16 Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence in and beyond the Classroom: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence (pp. 143-165). Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy.
Crane, C. C., Sadler, M., Ahn, J., & Ojiambo, P. (2011). Beyond the Methods Course: Using Exploratory Practice for Graduate Student Teacher Development. In H. Willis Allen, & H. Maxim (Eds.), Educating the Future Foreign Language Professorate for the 21st Century (pp. 107-127). (AAUSC 2011). Cengage Learning.
Sadler, M. (2010). Subjective and intersubjective uses of Japanese verbs of cognition in conversation. Pragmatics, 20(1), 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20.1.06sad
Sadler, M. (2008). From a spatial to a subjective framework: The semantic and pragmatic change of ni-marked NPs in Japanese discourse. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 9(1), 94-139. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.9.1.06sad
Sadler, M. (2006). A blurring of categorization: The Japanese connective de in spontaneous conversation. Discourse Studies, 8(2), 303-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445606055425
Sadler, M. (2002). From a pragmatic marker to a direct object marker: The Japanese particle o in written discourse. Studies in Language, 26(2), 243-281. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.26.2.03sad
Sadler, M. (2001). Iconically Motivated Use of the Japanese Discourse Markers sorede, nde, and de in Conversation. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 20(2), 143-161.
Recent Publications
Sadler, M. (2024). “That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 233, 70-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.007
Ono, T., Sadler, M., & Daiju, S. (2020). 日本語の日常会話における「基本的」他動詞節 現実的な文法理論の構築を目指して. In T. Nakayama, & N. Otani (Eds.), 認知言語学と談話機能言語学の有機的接点: 用法基盤モデルに基づく新展開 (pp. 165-182). Hitsuji Shobo.
Sadler, M. (2020). Japanese negative suffix nai in conversation: Its formulaicity and intersubjectivity. Discourse Studies, 22(4), 460-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445620914671
Sadler, M. (2014). Co-Constructing Intercultural Views and Identities in a Teaching Methods Class. In B. Dupuy, & L. Waugh (Eds.), Preparing and Supporting K–16 Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence in and beyond the Classroom: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence (pp. 143-165). Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy.
Crane, C. C., Sadler, M., Ahn, J., & Ojiambo, P. (2011). Beyond the Methods Course: Using Exploratory Practice for Graduate Student Teacher Development. In H. Willis Allen, & H. Maxim (Eds.), Educating the Future Foreign Language Professorate for the 21st Century (pp. 107-127). (AAUSC 2011). Cengage Learning.