Masaru Kanetani

List of John Benjamins publications in which Masaru Kanetani is involved.

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Causation and Reasoning Constructions

Masaru Kanetani

Causation and reasoning are different but related types of relationships. Both causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the same connective word in some languages: English speakers use because and Japanese speakers use kara. How then are causation and reasoning… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 25] 2019. xi, 196 pp.

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Kanetani, Masaru 2020 Mental representations of multimodal constructions: The case of Japanese psychomimesThe Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 174–185 | Article
Japanese mimetics, and its psychomimes (e.g. gakkuri ‘disappointed’), in particular, are usually accompanied in speech with bodily movements, including gestures and postures. I have already argued that certain patterns in co-speech gestures and postures that accompanied psychomimes showed a… read more
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