Shoichi Iwasaki

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shoichi Iwasaki is involved.

Journal

Studies in Language

General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe

ISSN 0378-4177 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9978

Japanese: Revised edition

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 17] 2013. xxi, 383 pp.

Japanese

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 5] 2002. xx, 360 pp.

Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse

Shoichi Iwasaki

This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 2] 1993. xii, 152 pp.

Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa

Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard

Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.

Iwasaki, Shoichi and Parada Dechapratumwan 2022 Creating versatility in Thai demonstratives Studies in Language 46:3, pp. 517–558 | Article

Beyond their basic function to index exophoric and endophoric referents, Thai demonstratives have a host of pragmatic functions to encode concerns regarding discourse organization, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Based on a detailed analysis of demonstratives used in conversation, we… read more

Kawanishi, Yumiko and Shoichi Iwasaki 2018 Chapter 1. Reason-coding in Japanese: A Multiple Grammar perspective Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 17–48 | Chapter

This chapter examines how reasons are expressed in Japanese discourse, employing the Multiple Grammar (MG) Model proposed by Iwasaki (2015) as a theoretical foundation. It shows how the model can explain different ways in which reasons are expressed in conversation and newspaper editorials. This… read more

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2015 Animacy and differential subject marking in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Studies in Language 39:3, pp. 754–778 | Article

Ikema is a dialect of the Miyako language of Ryukyu, Japan and is endangered. It is remotely related to Japanese, but unlike Japanese it shows a differential-subject marking based on the animacy feature of the subject noun. The pronoun and personal names are invariably marked by ga, while… read more

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2014 Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese: Observations and explorations Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 55–84 | Article

‘Internal expressive sentences’ such as a! itai ‘Oh, it hurts,’ or aa yokatta ‘Oh, I’m so happy!,’ reveal directly what the speaker perceives or senses internally, and contrast sharply with ‘descriptive sentences,’ such as taroo wa kuma o uchitometa ‘Taro shot the bear.’ This distinction has been… read more

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2009 Time management formulaic expressions in English and Thai Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 589–614 | Article

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2002 Proprioceptive-state expressions in Thai Studies in Language 26:1, pp. 33–66 | Article

While the structure consisting of a topic and a clausal comment, often referred to as the double-topic, double-subject, or double-nominative sentence, has been discussed in the literature, the internal constituent order within the comment has rarely been a target of study of linguistic typology.… read more

Iwasaki, Shoichi and Tsuyoshi Ono 2002 ‘Sentence’ in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 175–202 | Article

Lord, Carol, Foong Ha Yap and Shoichi Iwasaki 2002 Grammaticalization of ‘give’: African and Asian perspectives New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 217–235 | Article

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2000 Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 237–272 | Article

Iwasaki, Shoichi 1987 Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa: A study of Japanese spoken expository discourse Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 107–142 | Article