Author

Debra J. Occhi

Observed names: D. J. OCCHI, Debra J Occhi, Debra Jane Occhi, Debra Occhi, OCCHI, Debra J., Occhi, Debra, Occhi, Debra J., Occhi, Debra Jane

Observed institution: Miyazaki International College

ORCID: 0000-0002-7689-5117

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-7689-5117

OpenAlex ID: A5016678367

Signs in society: Studies in semiotic anthropology. By Richard J. Parmentier Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 223.

1996 · Debra Occhi · Language · 116

Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates

1999 · Gary B. Palmer, Debra J. Occhi · 38

Wobbly Aesthetics, Performance, and Message : Comparing Japanese Kyara with their Anthropomorphic Forebears

2012 · Debra J. Occhi · Asian Ethnology · 37

The green leaves of love: Japanese romantic heroines, authentic femininity, and dialect1

2009 · Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Debra J. Occhi · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 29

Where Japanese and Occidental Cultural Conceptualisations Meet: Reading Manga Which Anthropomorphise Nations as Kyara ‘Characters’ Through the Lens of Cultural Linguistics

2017 · Debra J. Occhi · Cultural linguistics · 26

Finding Mr Right: New Looks at Gendered Modernity in Japanese Televised Romances

2010 · Debra J. Occhi, Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan, et al. · Japanese Studies · 25

How to have a HEART in Japanese

2008 · Debra J Occhi · 14

A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese ‘eye’ expressions

2011 · Debra J. Occhi · Human cognitive processing · 12

Kyaraben (character bento): The cutesification of Japanese food in and beyond the lunchbox

2016 · Debra J. Occhi · East Asian Journal of Popular Culture · 9

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Sloppy Selfhood

2014 · Debra J. Occhi · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 7

Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias

2010 · D. J. OCCHI · Social Science Japan Journal · 6

Numida, sake and love: Emotional expressions and Japanese enka music

2004 · Debra Jane Occhi · Journal of Japanese Linguistics · 6

Sounds of the Heart and Mind

1999 · Debra J. Occhi · Advances in consciousness research · 5

Kumamon

2018 · Debra J. Occhi · Routledge eBooks · 4

Contesting cultural representations: Using Internet-mediated communication for cross-cultural education

2003 · Cynthia Dickel Dunn, Debra J. Occhi · UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa) · 4

Yuru Kyara Humanity and the Uncanny Instability of Borders in the Construction of Japanese Identities and Aesthetics

2014 · Debra J. Occhi · 3

Tiny buds whispering: flowers in contemporary Japanese culture and ideology

2009 · Debra J. Occhi · Social Semiotics · 3

Kumamon

2023 · Debra J. Occhi · Routledge eBooks · 2

Idolization of Miyazaki Ken Local Mascots and Himukaizer Local Heroes: The Animate Spirits of Miyazaki, Japan

2021 · Debra J. Occhi · Springer eBooks · 2

An-Pan Man: Language and culture in a Japanese children's cartoon

2019 · Occhi, Debra Jane · Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno) · 2

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Global and Local Perspectives on Discourses and Practices of University Internationalization

2016 · Debra J. Occhi · SensePublishers eBooks · 2

Cultural variations in language and emotion

2019 · Debra J. Occhi · Routledge eBooks · 1

2. Using cultural linguistics to teach English language inferential schemas used in archaeology to Japanese university students

2007 · Debra J. Occhi · Converging evidence in language and communication research · 1

Human-machine relations from abacus to AI in the Sanrio anime Aggressive Retsuko (Aggretsuko)

2025 · Debra J. Occhi, Anderson Pierre Passos · Routledge eBooks

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6 Local Cosmologies, the Folkloresque, and the Fantastic in the Japanese Himukaizer Tokusatsu Action Hero Media Mix

2024 · Debra J. Occhi · Utah State University Press eBooks

Works count: 55

Citation count: 354

H-index: 9

I10-index: 8