Kuniyoshi Kataoka

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Kuniyoshi Kataoka is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics

Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Edited by Helmut Gruber

ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238

Book series

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Edited by Miriam A. Locher

ISSN 0922-842X

Articles (8) | Order by:

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2025 A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial: A case study of ethnopoetic texts and beyond Pragmatics and Society 16:4, pp. 471–493 | Article

By examining a popular Japanese TV commercial as an archetypal example of discursive practice, this paper shows that quotidian discourse is poetically organized and achieved through multimodally accumulated preferences in order to maximize appeal for anticipated recipients. Building on this… read more

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2020 Chapter 1. Shifting bonds in suspect interrogations: A focus on person-reference and modality Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako and Kaori Hata (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Chapter

In this paper I will examine a series of police interrogations in which various “bonding” strategies – typically linguistic “modality” and “person reference” in Japanese – are employed. The prosecution process in Japan is notorious for unduly allowing the police to extend the detention period… read more

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2008 “Involved” speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: A case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 251–284 | Chapter

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2004 Review of Sakita (2002): Reporting Discourse, Tense, and Cognition Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1, pp. 204–213 | Review

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2003 Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing Written Language & Literacy 6:1, pp. 1–29 | Miscellaneous

Young Japanese women effectively construct and manipulate their emotive stances through the use of special pictorial signs and their graph(em)ic modifications in casual letter-writing among friends. To achieve this, the writers use a para-/metalinguistic and indexical means of “contextualization”… read more

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 2003 Emotion and youth identities in personal letter writing: An analysis of pictorial signs and unconventional punctuation Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 121–149 | Article

Adamson, H.D., Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber, Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Vincent Scardino and Shoji Takano 1996 Tense Marking in the English of Spanish-speaking Adolescents Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Article

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 1995 Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing: Use of sentence-final particles ne and yo and orthographic conventions Pragmatics 5:4, pp. 427–453 | Article