Yuri Hosoda
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuri Hosoda is involved.
2025 Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours: Designing further talk and soliciting participation Pragmatics and Society 16:2, pp. 282–304 | Article
This study explores how guided tour interaction is achieved through certain question formats, specifically known-answer questions (KAQs), as they are deployed by guides for subsequently designing their talk to fit perceived visitor knowledge and for inviting visitor involvement in… read more
2018 Embodied departure from focal objects in a lingua franca campus tour Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish, Albelda Marco, Marta and María Estellés (eds.), pp. 454–484 | Article
This conversation analytic study examines the interaction coordinated between two amateur tour guides and a guided visitor for initiating departure from various objects during a campus tour managed through Japanese as a lingua franca. The data come from a 40-minute tour at a Taiwanese university… read more
2015 Single episode analysis of extended conflict talk sequences in second language classroom discussion Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:2, pp. 231–262 | Article
Numerous studies have examined conflict talk from an ethnomethodological perspective, scrutinizing development of conflict talk sequences (e.g., Coulter 1990; Maynard 1985a). We take up this strand of research to examine an extended episode of conflict talk in a second language (L2) classroom.… read more
2010 Positions and actions of classroom-specific applause Pragmatics 20:2, pp. 133–148 | Article
While the interactional conditions and timing of applause in audience response to public speeches has received attention in conversation analysis research, little research has been done on applause in educational contexts. The nature of applause, however, can vary depending on the context. This… read more



