Shigeko Okamoto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shigeko Okamoto is involved.
2018 Chapter 10. Metapragmatic discourse in self-help books on Japanese women’s speech: An indexical approach to social meanings Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 245–266 | Chapter
Drawing on the indexical view of language (Agha 2007; Eckert 2008, 2012; Silverstein 1979, 2003), I reexamine the notion of (normative) linguistic femininity by analyzing metapragmatic discourse in self-help books on Japanese women’s speech. My analysis demonstrates that what is taught as ideal… read more
2014 The use and interpretation of “regional” and “standard” variants in Japanese conversation Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 279–304 | Article
It is often said that language standardization has been steadily advancing in modern Japan and that speakers in regional Japan are now bi-dialectal and code-switch between “Standard” and “regional” Japanese. The notion of code-switching, however, assumes the existence of varieties, or well-defined… read more
2011 Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and English Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective, Laury, Ritva and Ryoko Suzuki (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article
The English I mean and the Japanese teyuuka differ syntactically and semantically, but they have similar pragmatized uses. Both verbs, mean and yuu, function as regular verbs in main clauses and also as part of formulaic expressions which indicate a modal meaning with respect to an utterance, or… read more
2008 Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and Standard Japanese in conversations Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Chapter
2008 Quotative tte in Japanese: Its multifaceted functions and degrees of "subordination" Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 205–230 | Article
This study examines naturally occurring conversations with regard to the syntactic and semantic/pragmatic properties of Japanese quotative particle tte in five different usages and argues that these usages constitute subcategories of the particle tte. Our analysis demonstrates complex and creative… read more
2003 Metonymy and pragmatic inference in the functional reanalysis of grammatical morphemes in Japanese Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Linda L. Thornburg (eds.), pp. 205–220 | Article
1999 Situated politeness: Manipulating honorific and non-honorific expressions in Japanese conversations Ideologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 51–74 | Article
1996 Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 219–246 | Article