This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of… read more
This paper is an attempt to reinterpret kyoowa or collaborative talk in Japanese discourse from the pragmatic perspective based on ba theory. Applying the idea of the self as a dual-mode existence within the ba, I analyze parts of a Japanese narrative in which the speaker talks about the… read more
In this chapter, we analyze Japanese women’s narratives about their child-rearing experiences to reveal the meta-level of positioning of their husbands’ involvement through examining the use and non-use of benefactive verb forms. We pose the grammatical form of benefactive, especially the -te… read more
In this paper, I analyse women’s interview narratives from the United States and Japan about their child rearing experiences to examine how stance-taking towards their experiences and their family members manifest itself differently. Paying attention to the narratives regarding their husbands’… read more
Ide, Risako 2009 AisatsuCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 18–28 | Article
