Yoshiko Matsumoto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yoshiko Matsumoto is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1876-1933 | E‑ISSN 1876‑1941
Book series
Topics in Address Research
Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat
ISSN 2405-9269
Identity Perspectives from Peripheries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman
Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods, new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] 2025. vii, 295 pp.
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 15:1 (2024) vi, 213 pp.
Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture
Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori
Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 285] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 116] 2017. vi, 381 pp.
Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A frame semantic approach
Yoshiko Matsumoto
This study examines the clausal noun-modifying construction (NMC) in Japanese, a much-discussed construction that embraces what have usually been called relative clause and noun complement constructions. Drawing upon a broad range of naturally-occurring NMCs, including types that fall outside the… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 35] 1997. x, 211 pp.
2025 Chapter 1. Identities and peripheries Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 2–15 | Chapter
The basic tenet of the present volume is to focus on the impact of different kinds of peripheries and margins in society in order to acquire a better understanding of what we might want to talk about as core properties in human (linguistic) behavior. In particular, the volume seeks an… read more
2025 Chapter 6. From the peripheries of adulthood: Deconstructing culturally-expected identities of age categories Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
This study considers how individuals who are peripheralized from core or dominant social positions perform linguistic stances to indirectly resist the behaviors and attitudes that are expected of them. Focusing on the life-stage peripheries of youth and old age, the study uses discourse analysis… read more
2024 Chapter 6. (Non)referentiality of silent reference in Japanese conversation: How and what are inferred (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 103–122 | Chapter
Japanese speakers carry out successful conversations in which arguments and adjuncts of predicates are not expressed. I call such unmentioned members of an event or state that can be inferred
INFERABLES
. Inferables present a range of interpretations from specific to more general… read more
2024 Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia: Introduction to the special issue Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Review article
2024 On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal art Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 104–121 | Article
To help older adults living with cognitive impairments to engage in positive social interactions and maintain verbal creativity, intergenerational small-group sessions of haiku creation and appreciation activity were conducted online during the pandemic. Haiku, a short 17-syllable form of poetry… read more
2019 When being quotidian meets being ordinary The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 269–294 | Chapter
Building on previous studies of casual conversations by older Japanese women in which quotidian reframing was used as a strategy to present serious and extraordinary situations from the perspective of the quotidian (e.g. Matsumoto 2011), this chapter examines how reframing to the quotidian, i.e.… read more
2018 Chapter 3. The form and meaning of the dangling mitaina construction in a network of constructions Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter
In recent years the use in Japanese of the prenominal form mitaina of the evidential expression, mitaida ‘(it) look(s) like,’ has been observed at the utterance final position with no noun following it. The pragmatic function of this apparently innovative construction has been described in terms of… read more
2018 Introduction Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Introduction
2017 Conclusion Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 331–337 | Article
In this conclusion, we address three issues: a) the geographic extent of GNMCCs in Eurasia, including considerations of areal phenomena resulting from language contact; b) delimiting GNMCCs from other constructions, in particular those that in Japanese fall under GNMCCs; and c) structural… read more
2017 General noun-modifying clause constructions in Japanese Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 23–43 | Article
Instances of Japanese clausal modification of a noun illustrate that Japanese exhibits a single construction, the general noun-modifying clause construction (GNMCC), in which a clause in the finite form precedes the head noun. The GNMCC expresses extensive grammatical and semantic relations between… read more
2017 Noun-modifying clause constructions in languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article
2015 Partnership between grammatical construction and interactional frame: The stand-alone noun-modifying construction in invocatory discourse On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre, Fischer, Kerstin and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 289–314 | Article
Building on the seminal work on grammar and frames (e.g. Fillmore 1982), in addition to recent studies that apply a construction grammar approach to the description of genres (Antonopoulou & Nikiforidou 2011; Nikiforidou 2010b; Östman 2005) and spoken discourse (Fischer 2011; Fried & Östman 2005),… read more
2014 Context in constructions: Variation in Japanese non-subject honorifics Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 261–278 | Article
This paper illustrates the importance of context for grammar by examining discourse data of the nonsubject honorific construction o – Verb (stem) – suru. Building upon previous studies that argued that non-subject honorifics are subject to a pragmatic condition of benefit transfer between the… read more
2013 Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions Advances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 159–181 | Article
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in “interactional frames” (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs)… read more
2010 Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions Grammar and interaction: New directions in constructional research, pp. 135–157 | Article
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in “interactional frames” (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs)… read more
2008 Tuning speech style and persona Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 213–228 | Chapter
2008 5. Variations in Japanese honorification - deviations or a change in the making? Constructional Reorganization, Leino, Jaakko (ed.), pp. 89–104 | Article