Michiko Kaneyasu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michiko Kaneyasu is involved.
Articles
2022 Multimodal strategies for balancing formality and informality: The role of kaomoji in online comment-reply interactions Formality and Informality in Online Performances, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Article
This paper investigates multimodal strategies for balancing formality and informality online. The analysis of 300 comment-reply interactions on a recipe sharing site in Japan demonstrates that writers tend to avoid being overly formal or informal in their messages. For example, most comments and… read more
2020 Regularity and variation in Japanese recipes: A comparative analysis of cookbook, online and user-generated sub-registers Register Studies 2:1, pp. 37–71 | Article
This paper investigates the similarities and differences between three sub-registers of Japanese recipe texts: cookbook recipes, online commercial recipes written/edited by professionals, and online user-generated recipes. Past studies on Japanese recipes do not distinguish different… read more
2020 Dimensions of recipe register and native speaker knowledge: Observations from a writing experiment Pragmatics 30:4, pp. 532–556 | Article
This study investigates native Japanese speakers’ context-dependent linguistic knowledge of cooking recipes. Recipes are a typical example of a register, defined as the use of language in a particular social situation for a specific purpose. Thirty participants in the present study were asked to… read more