Research Publications

• Rivers, D.J., Unser-Schutz, G. and Rudolph, N. (2024). Vaccine hesitancy and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 misinformation in Japanese youth: The contribution of personality traits and national identity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21(1): 42.

• Rivers, D.J. (2022). Multimodal gestalts and post-pandemic utopianism: Drum and bass on the bike. Frontiers in Communication 7: 817332.

• Rivers, D.J. (2022). Stress mediates the relationship between personality and the affordance of socially distanced online education. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 9719729.

• Rivers, D.J. (2022). The Situation Specific Arousal Analyzer (SSAA): Innovation in the physiological assessment of foreign language education anxiety. Frontiers in Education 7: 802639.

• Rivers, D.J., Nakamura, M. and Vallance, M. (2021). Online self-regulated learning and achievement in the era of change. Journal of Educational Computing Research 60(1): 104-131.

• Rivers, D.J., Vallance, M. and Nakamura, M. (2021). Metacognitive knowledge and the self as socially distanced online learner: A virtual reality assisted analysis of academic self concept. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 50(1): 87-111.

• Rivers, D.J. (2021). The role of personality traits and online academic self-efficacy in acceptance, actual use and achievement in Moodle. Education and Information Technologies 26(4): 4353-4378.

• Rivers, D.J. (2021). A serial mediation approach to goal orientations, learning strategies and achievement outcomes on a computer-mediated English program. Journal of Educational Computing Research 59(7): 1343-1369.

• Rivers, D.J. (2020). Japanese national identity and the positioning of English as opportunity or obstruction. Contemporary Japan 33(1): 41-56.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2020). Donald Trump, legitimisation and a new political rhetoric. World Englishes 39(4): 623-637.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2020). Authority (de)legitimation in the border wall Twitter discourse of President Trump. Journal of Language and Politics 19(5): 831-856.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2020). Sport in the new media landscape: Community, participation and discourse. Discourse, Context and Media 35: 100378.

• Rivers, D.J. (2020). Contributions of national identity and personality to foreign language communication and contact attitudes in Japan. Journal of Language, Identity and Education 19(6): 379-394.

• Rivers, D.J. (2020). Banter and the fan channel phenomenon in the era of participatory culture. The Digital Football Network.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2019). “This channel has more subs from rival fans than Arsenal fans”: Arsenal Fan TV, football fandom and banter in the new media era. Sport in Society 24(6): 867-885.

• Rivers, D.J. (2019). Strava as a discursive field of practice: Technological affordances and mediated cycling motivations. Discourse, Context and Media 34: 100345.

• Rivers, D.J. (2019). Walking on glass: Reconciling experience and expectation in Japan. Journal of Language, Identity and Education 18(6): 377-388.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2019). Internet memes, media frames, and the conflicting logics of climate change discourse. Environmental Communication 13(7): 975-994.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (Eds.) (2019). Discourses of (de)legitimization: Participatory cultures in digital contexts. New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2019). Political cartoons as creative insurgency: Delegitimization in the culture of convergence. In A.S. Ross and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), Discourses of (De)Legitimization: Participatory Cultures in Digital Contexts (pp. 248-281). New York: Routledge.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2019). (De)legitimization and participation in the digitalized public sphere. In A.S. Ross and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), Discourses of (De)Legitimization: Participatory Cultures in Digital Contexts (pp. 1-14). New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2018). Interviewing for accountability: Ideological framing and argumentation. Language and Dialogue 8(3): 391-414.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2018). An integrated approach to non-verbal performance in the hybrid political interview. Journal of Pragmatics 132: 59-75.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2018). L1/L2 communication self-efficacy beliefs and the contribution of personality. Language Learning Journal 48(6): 700-714.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2018). Discursive deflection: Accusation of "fake news" and the spread of mis- and dis-information in the Tweets of President Trump. Social Media + Society 4(2): 1-12.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2018). "Froome with his SKY bodyguards, layers of armour": The 'sport is war' conceptual metaphor in grand tour cycling commentary. Communication & Sport 7(2): 176-197.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2018). Emotions beyond the classroom: Interactions with the social world. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 8(1): 103-126.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2018). Communicative interactions in foreign language education: contact anxiety, appraisal and distance. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 16(1): 20-30.

• Houghton, S.A., Rivers, D.J. and Hashimoto, K. (2018). Beyond native-speakerism: Current explorations and future visions. New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). Speakerhood as segregation: The construction and consequence of divisive discourse in TESOL. In B. Yazan and N. Rudolph (Eds.), Criticality, Teacher Identity, and (In)equity in English Language Teaching (pp. 195-215). Dordrecht: Springer.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). The idea of the native speaker. In S.A. Houghton, D.J. Rivers and K. Hashimoto. Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (pp. 15-35). New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). The sociohistorical foundations of Japan’s relationship with the native speaker of foreign languages. In S.A. Houghton, D.J. Rivers and K. Hashimoto. Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (pp. 36-58). New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). “Introverted psychosis” and the psychology of native-speaker interaction: Social representation, status and threat perception. In S.A. Houghton, D.J. Rivers and K. Hashimoto. Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (pp. 59-81). New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). Contemporary English language teachers’ views on native-speakerism-in-context. In S.A. Houghton, D.J. Rivers and K. Hashimoto. Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (pp. 82-96). New York: Routledge.

• Rivers, D.J. (2018). Foreword: Probing for a post-native-speakerist future. In S.A. Houghton and K. Hashimoto (Eds.), Towards Post-Native Speakerism: Dynamics and Shifts (pp. v-xv). Dordrecht: Springer.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2017). Internet memes as polyvocal political participation. In D. Schill and J.A. Hendricks (Eds.), The Presidency and Social Media: Discourse, Disruption, and Digital Democracy in the 2016 Presidential Election (pp. 285-308). New York: Routledge.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (2017). Digital cultures of political participation: Internet memes and the discursive delegitimization of the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates. Discourse, Context and Media 16(1): 1-11.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers, D.J. (Eds.) (2017). The sociolinguistics of hip-hop as critical conscience: dissatisfaction and dissent. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Ross, A.S. and Rivers D.J. (2017). Hip-hop as critical conscience: Framing dissatisfaction and dissent. In A.S. Ross and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent (pp. 1-11). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2017). Where is the love? White nationalist discourse on hip-hop. In A.S. Ross and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent (pp. 101-129). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. and Zotzmann, K. (Eds.) (2017). Isms in language education: Oppression, intersectionality and emancipation. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

• Zotzmann, K. and Rivers, D.J. (2017). Bringing the isms into focus. In D.J. Rivers and K. Zotzmann (Eds.), Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation (pp. 1-14). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

• Rivers, D.J. (2017). Native-speakerism and the betrayal of the native speaker teaching professional. In D.J. Rivers and K. Zotzmann (Eds.), Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation (pp. 74-97). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

• Rivers, D.J. (2016). Employment advertisements and native-speakerism in Japanese higher education. In F. Copland, S. Garton and S. Mann (Eds.), LETs and NESTs: Voices, Views and Vignettes (pp. 79-100). London: British Council.

• Rivers, D.J. (Ed.) (2015). Resistance to the known: Counter-conduct in language education. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2015). Introduction: Conceptualizing the known and the relational dynamics of power and resistance. In D.J. Rivers (Ed.), Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language Education (pp. 1-20). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2015). The authorities of autonomy and English-only: Serving whose interests? In D.J. Rivers (Ed.), Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language Education (pp. 94-118). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2015). Cultural essentialism and foreigner-as-criminal discourse. In F. Dervin and R. Machart (Eds.), Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations (pp. 15-41). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2015). The self-other positioning of international students in the Japanese university English language classroom. In A.H. Fabricius and B. Preisler (Eds.), Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education: The Student Experience (pp. 188-214). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rivers, D.J. (2014). Asia for the Asians: China in the lives of five Meiji Japanese by Paula Harrell. Asian Studies Review 38(4): 701-703.

• Rivers, D.J. (2014). Scientific discourse and the rhetoric of globalization: The impact of culture and language by Carmen Perez-Llantada. Linguist List 25.5049.

• Rivers, D.J. and Houghton, S.A. (Eds.) (2013). Social identities and multiple selves in foreign language education. New York: Bloomsbury.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). Implications for identity: Inhabiting the native-speaker English teacher location in the Japanese sociocultural context. In D.J. Rivers and S.A. Houghton (Eds.), Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education (pp. 33-55). New York: Bloomsbury.

• Rivers, D.J. and Houghton, S.A. (2013). Identities in foreign language education. In D.J. Rivers and S.A. Houghton (Eds.), Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education (pp. 1-12). New York: Bloomsbury.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2013). Idealized English teachers: The implicit influence of race in Japan. Journal of Language, Identity and Education 12(5): 321-339.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). Labour contract law amendments: Recruitment indicative of change? The Language Teacher 37(1): 68-71.

• Rivers, D.J. and Ross, A.S. (2013). Uncovering stereotypes: Intersections of race and English native-speakerhood. In S.A. Houghton, Y. Furumura, M. Lebedko and L. Song (Eds.), Critical Cultural Awareness: Managing Stereotypes through Intercultural (Language) Education (pp. 42-61). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

• Houghton, S.A. and Rivers, D.J. (Eds.) (2013). Native-speakerism in Japan: Intergroup dynamics in foreign language education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). Institutionalized native-speakerism: Voice of dissent and acts of resistance. In S.A. Houghton and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), Native-Speakerism in Japan: Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education (pp. 75-91). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

• Houghton, S.A. and Rivers, D.J. (2013). Redefining native-speakerism. In S.A. Houghton and D.J. Rivers (Eds.), Native-Speakerism in Japan: Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education (pp. 1-14). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). Rethinking narrative identity: Persona and perspective edited by Claudia Holler and Martin Klepper. Linguist List 24.2740.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). English-medium instruction at universities: Global challenges edited by Aintzane Doiz, David Lasagabaster and Juan Manuel Sierra. Linguist List 24.832.

• Rivers, D.J. (2013). Developing criticality in practice through foreign language education by Stephanie Houghton and Etsuko Yamada. Language and Intercultural Communication 13(1): 113-116.

• Rivers, D.J. (2012). Modelling the perceived value of compulsory English language education in undergraduate non-language majors of Japanese nationality. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33(3): 251-267.

• Rivers, D.J. (2012). The politics of English: Conflict, competition, co-existence edited by Ann Hewings and Caroline Tagg. Linguist List 23.4486.

• Rivers, D.J. (2012). Identity formation in globalizing contexts: Language learning in the new millennium edited by Christina Higgins. Linguist List 23.3196.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). Evaluating the self and the other: Imagined intercultural contact within a native-speaker dependent foreign language context. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 35(6): 842-852.

• Rivers D.J. (2011). Strategies and struggles in the ELT classroom: Language policy, learner autonomy and innovative practice. Language Awareness 20(1): 31-43.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). Politics without pedagogy: Questioning linguistic exclusion. ELT Journal 65(2): 103-113.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). Japanese national identification and English language learning processes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 35(1): 111-123.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). Intercultural processes in accented English. World Englishes 30(3): 375-391.

• McMillan, B.A. and Rivers, D.J. (2011). The practice of policy: Teacher attitudes toward English-only. System 39(2): 251-263.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). The Internationalization of Japanese higher education institutions: Implications for 2012 and beyond. In C. Ward (Ed.), Language Education: An Essential for a Global Economy: Anthology Series 52 (pp. 237-257). Singapore: SEAMEO.

• Rivers, D.J. (2011). Lifting the curtain on the land of the rising sun. Australian Universities Review 53(2): 118-122.

• Rivers, D.J. (2010). Implicating the role of Japanese national identification: National vitality, community appeal and attitudes toward English language learning in context. Studies in Linguistics and Language Teaching 21: 101-122.

• Rivers, D.J. (2010). Ideologies of internationalization and the treatment of diversity within Japanese higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 32(5): 441-454.

• Rivers, D.J. (2010). National identification and intercultural relations in foreign language learning. Language and Intercultural Communication 10(4): 318-336.

• Rivers, D.J. (2010). An exploration of on-task language policy and student satisfaction. ELT Journal 64(3): 261-271.

• Rivers, D.J. (2009). Utilizing the quick response (QR) code within the Japanese EFL environment. JALT CALL Journal 5(2): 15-28.