Hiroko Itakura

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hiroko Itakura is involved.

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Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.

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Itakura, Hiroko 2015 Constructing Japanese men’s multidimensional identities: A case study of mixed-gender talk Pragmatics 25:2, pp. 179–203 | Article

Most previous studies of language and gender have focused on English as well as women’s language. The present study focuses on context dependency and the multiple functions of Japanese men’s language, or “masculine Japanese.” It reports a case study that qualitatively analyzes four conversations… read more

Itakura, Hiroko 2014 Femininity in mixed-sex talk and intercultural communication: Are Japanese women polite and submissive? Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 455–483 | Article

Previous studies of language and gender discuss how men and women use gender-specific conversational styles mainly in relation to English, whereas similar studies for Asian languages remain comparatively few. Moreover, little is known about gender and conversational styles during intercultural… read more

Itakura, Hiroko 2013 Review of Cooren (2010): Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism Pragmatics and Society 4:3, pp. 393–396 | Review

Itakura, Hiroko 2011 Review of Hyland, K. & G. Diani, eds (2009) Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics, Walsh, Michael (ed.), pp. 348–351 | Review