Doshisha University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Doshisha University*

Titles

Agency and Impersonality: Their Linguistic and Cultural Manifestations

Mutsumi Yamamoto

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 78] 2006. x, 152 pp. | monograph

Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics

AuthorMutsumi Yamamoto

Subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp. | monograph

Horie, Kaoru, Kangwon Lee & Jaehyun Lee 2025 Differential manifestations of the impact of ba on grammar: Case studies from Japanese and Korean

Keywords: honorification | referent-honorific expressions | addressee-honorific expressions | in-group/out-group | grammar-pragmatics interface | deictic demonstrative expressions | noun-modifying clause constructions | relational noun | reference point | pragmatic inference

In: Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft & Kishiko Ueno (eds.) [Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 24] pp. 144–168 | open access

Hauser, Eric & Zachary Nanbu 2025 Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context

Keywords: English village | L2 interaction | participation | semiotic resources | substrate

Pragmatics and Society 16:6 pp. 777–805 | article

Greer, Tim & Zachary Nanbu 2025 Occasioning and re-occasioning learnables in a cooking class

Keywords: micro-longitudinal conversation analysis | learnables | interactional histories | language socialization | analyse micro-longitudinale des conversations | objets d’apprentissage | histoires interactionnelles | socialisation langagière

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 pp. 132–167 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Ken Kinoshita 2024 Beyond acceptable criticism: Assessing Japanese politicians’ debasing rhetoric

Keywords: debasement | rhetorical devices | Japan | parliamentary discourse | culture

Language and Dialogue 15:2 pp. 205–231 | article

Inagaki, Shunji 2024 Transfer and learnability: Still a ‘primary’ consideration in L2 acquisition research

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 pp. 74–78 | article commentary

Kawase, Tomoyuki 2024 Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles

Keywords: genre analysis | research article | conclusion section | moves | coherence relations | Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)

Pragmatics 35:2 pp. 185–203 | article

Tamura, Yumiko, Masahiro Shiomi, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara & Norihiro Hagita 2021 Robots as an interactive-social medium in storytelling to multiple children

Keywords: storytelling | child-robot interaction | multiple robots | group interaction

Interaction Studies 22:1 pp. 110–140 | article

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Quint & Yoshiyuki Nakata 2020 How teachers promote young language learners’ engagement: Lesson form and lesson quality

Keywords: engagement | foreign language | mixed-methods | motivation | classroom practice

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:1 pp. 101–130 | article

Kawase, Tomoyuki 2019 Coherence relations in research article discussions: How are sentences organised to realise genre moves?

Keywords: coherence relations | discussion section | genre analysis | move structure | research articles

English Text Construction 12:2 pp. 235–264 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Ken Kinoshita 2017 Do important questions demand respectful replies?: Analyzing televised political interviews in Japan

Keywords: Political interviews | Television | Media discourse | Theory of Equivocation | Political issues | Japan

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:1 pp. 121–157 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Ken Kinoshita 2017 Expanding factors in threat to face: Assessing the toughness/equivocation connection in Japanese televised political interviews

Keywords: political interviews | television | threats to face | Theory of Equivocation | media discourse | Japan

Language and Dialogue 7:3 pp. 336–359 | article

Feldman, Ofer, Ken Kinoshita & Peter Bull 2017 Failures in Leadership: How and Why Wishy-Washy Politicians Equivocate on Japanese Political Interviews

Keywords: Political interviews | Television | Media discourse | Theory of Equivocation | Political issues | Japan

Journal of Language and Politics 16:2 pp. 285–312 | article

Sakita, Tomoko I. 2017 Stance management in oral narrative: The role of discourse marker well and resonance

Functions of Language 24:1 pp. 65–93 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Peter Bull 2012 Understanding audience affiliation in response to political speeches in Japan

Keywords: laughter | audience affiliation | applause | rhetorical devices | political speeches | cheering

Language and Dialogue 2:3 pp. 375–397 | article

Sakita, Tomoko I. 2008 8. Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English reporting discourse

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 173–198

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.