Shimako Iwasaki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Shimako Iwasaki is involved.
2026 Deafblind interpreter practice and training Interpreting 28:1, pp. 122–151 | Article
Deafblind people have complex interpreting needs that often go beyond interlingual transfer. Their communicative profiles vary across various modes — visual, tactile and verbal — yet comparatively little is known about the repertoire of modes used by interpreters who work with deafblind people.… read more
2018 Chapter 2. Suspending talk: Multimodal organization of participation and stance in Japanese Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources, Deppermann, Arnulf and Jürgen Streeck (eds.), pp. 69–96 | Chapter
This chapter investigates ways in which multiple participants coordinate actions within a temporally unfolding “turn-constructional unit (TCU)” in Japanese conversation. Utterances are shaped by ongoing processes of participation and speakers modulate the structure of their emerging TCU with… read more
2018 Tactile sign languages Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 239–258 | Chapter
2013 Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction: Local organization at a finer level of granularity Units of Talk – Units of Action, Szczepek Reed, Beatrice and Geoffrey Raymond (eds.), pp. 243–276 | Article
Shifting from a focus on transitions between speakers at turn boundaries, this paper investigates the local, embodied, and situated organization of units inside a turn-constructional unit (TCU), and illustrates one way that systematic practices associated with unit construction enable emergent… read more