Keiko Naruoka
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keiko Naruoka is involved.
Articles
2025 Who is telling the story? A ba based analysis of a Japanese children’s picture book Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno (eds.), pp. 228–248 | Chapter
This chapter demonstrates the manner of unfolding a story in a Japanese children’s picture book. The study observes the following characteristics: (i) viewpoint shifts occur frequently between the narrator and characters during the progression of the story; (ii) the direct speech is represented… read more
2006 The interactional functions of the Japanese demonstratives in conversation Pragmatics 16:4, pp. 475–512 | Article
Although a large number of studies are conducted on Japanese demonstratives, most of them explain referential functions of the three demonstrative types (the so-called proximal ko-, medial so-, and distal a-) based on sentence-level analysis, and little previous work has been directed toward the… read more