Mariko Karatsu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mariko Karatsu is involved.

Title

Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories

Mariko Karatsu

This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.

Articles

Karatsu, Mariko 2014 Repetition of words and phrases from the punch lines of Japanese stories about food and restaurants: A group bonding exercise Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 185–208 | Article

Drawing on research on repetition in storytelling (Jefferson et al., 1987; Norrick, 2000; Georgakopoulou, 2007), I demonstrate how words and phrases in punch lines about food and restaurants can acquire evaluative or symbolic meanings in a storytelling among three Japanese women. I also show how… read more

Karatsu, Mariko 2010 Chapter 4. Sharing a personal discovery of a taste: Using distal demonstratives in a storytelling about kakuni ‘stewed pork belly’ Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 113–144 | Chapter

Focusing on the participants’ uses of distal demonstratives, this chapter investigates how a teller’s personal discovery and assessment of a new taste (kakuni ‘stewed pork belly’) are shared with a recipient through the process of a storytelling. In data from an audio/video taped naturally… read more