Yumi Matsumoto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yumi Matsumoto is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 9. Genre and the cultural realms of taste in Japanese, Korean, and U.S. online recipes Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 219–244 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the language, culture, and the discourse of food in Japan, Korea, and the United States, as prototypical exemplars of Western culture (U.S.) and Eastern culture (Japan and Korea). We compare and contrast patterns of discursive representations of food and social interaction… read more
Seeing multilingual learner agency and interactional competence in second language classroom interactions: Through a multimodal examination of the humor construction Applied Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines complex, dynamic interactional sequences in which multilingual students co-construct improvisational humor when encountering miscommunication in an academic writing classroom at an U.S. university. Combining multimodal conversation analysis with ethnographic information, this… read more