Yoko Fujii

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yoko Fujii is involved.

Title

Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | open access

Articles

Fujii, Yoko 2025 Japanese as a ba -oriented and predicate-centered language: Non-western perspectives for the representation of the world 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. 68–96 | Chapter

This study presents the ba-oriented and predicate-centered nature of Japanese through an analysis of Japanese and English language practices. Grounded in the principles of ba theory, it explores three key linguistic characteristics of “ba-oriented” Japanese, illustrated with examples from both… read more

Fujii, Yoko, Myung-Hee Kim, Natthaporn Panpothong, Siriporn Phakdeephasook, Yusuke Mochizuki and Yoko Kurogo 2025 Situating self and others in task-based interaction: A cross-linguistic study through ba theory 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. 347–380 | Chapter

This study proposes the concept of “ba-oriented language”, which is rooted in ba theory, by empirically analyzing how participants in interactions situate the self and others. The data consists of cross-linguistic video recordings from the “Mister O Corpus”, encompassing interactions in… read more

Fujii, Yoko 1999 The story of “break”: Cognitive categories of objects and the system of verbs Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), pp. 313–332 | Article