Saeko Machi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Saeko Machi is involved.
Articles
2025 The fun of repeating: Using ba theory to explore how Japanese speakers jointly engage in conversational playfulness Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno (eds.), pp. 196–226 | Chapter
This chapter explores cross-speaker repetition in Japanese conversations. It focuses on how interactants repeat each other’s utterances in a playful and mutually entertaining manner in five different ways, hence creating amusement along with a sense of ease and a bond. Cross-speaker repetition… read more
2024 Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/ kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese Pragmatics 34:1, pp. 109–133 | Article
This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to… read more
2019 Managing relationships through repetition: How repetition creates ever-shifting relationships in Japanese conversation Pragmatics 29:1, pp. 57–82 | Article
This study examines cross-speaker repetition in triadic conversations in the Japanese language. For the analysis, three sets of triadic conversations between close friends taken from a TV talk show are used. The results reveal that repetition in triadic conversations performs distinctive… read more