Kobe University

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

Title

Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra A. Thompson

Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 32] 1996. x, 322 pp. | edited volume

Komatsubara, Tetsuta 2025 Social variation in metaphors: Preferred metaphors by occupation in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | MIP | variation | frame | social context | occupation | newspaper | direct quotation | Japanese

In: COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures, Wen, Xu, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon & Zoltán Kövecses (eds.) [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] pp. 63–82

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

Komatsubara, Tetsuta 2023 Framing risk metaphorically: Changes in metaphors of COVID-19 over time in Japanese

Keywords: metaphor | discourse | framing | COVID-19 | pandemic | Japanese | risk | cognitive linguistics

In: Risk Discourse and Responsibility, Ädel, Annelie & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] pp. 65–87

Greer, Tim 2023 Grammar-in-Interaction and its place in assessing interactional competence

Applied Pragmatics 5:2 pp. 202–207 | article commentary

Sawada, Osamu 2022 The role of comparison in discourse: The meaning and use of the Japanese utterance comparative expressions sore-yori-(mo) ‘than that’ and nani-yori-(mo) ‘than anything’

Keywords: utterance comparison | discourse structure | speech act modifier | scale | conventional implicature (CI) | pragmatic functions

Language and Linguistics 24:1 pp. 36–73 | article | open access

Matsumoto, Noriko 2020  A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in English

Keywords: multi-verb sequence | evaluative modality | deixis | genre | frequency

In: Re-assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context, Hohaus, Pascal & Rainer Schulze (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] pp. 225–252

Burch, Alfred Rue 2019 Responding (or not) to other’s talk: Changes in recipiency practices during a Japanese study abroad program

Keywords: recipiency | multimodal conversation analysis | host family interaction | interactional competence

Applied Pragmatics 1:2 pp. 119–153 | article

Takahashi, Yasunori 2019 The phonological status of Low tones in Shanghai tone sandhi: Default tones or boundary tones?

Keywords: Shanghai Chinese | tone sandhi | default tone | boundary tone | intonation

Language and Linguistics 20:1 pp. 15–45 | article | open access

Greer, Tim 2016 On doing Japanese awe in English talk

Keywords: awe | emotion | English as a foreign language | epistemics | Japanese | language proficiency testing | receipt | stance

In: Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. & Gabriele Kasper (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] pp. 111–130

Hook, Peter Edwin & Prashant Pardeshi 2009 The semantic evolution of 'eat'-expressions: Ways and byways

In: The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 84] pp. 153–172

Horie, Kaoru, Prashant Pardeshi & Guy Kaul 2008 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict?

Keywords: ‘versatile’ subordinator | Adioukrou | conceptual space | cross-constructional continuity | economy | Japanese | polyfunctionality | Radical Construction Grammar (RCG) | subordination | transparency (isomorphism)

In: Asymmetric Events, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (ed.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 11] pp. 195–208

Kishimoto, Hideki 2004 Transitivity of ergative case-marking predicates in Japanese

Studies in Language 28:1 pp. 105–136 | article

Katagiri, Masumi 1991 Review of Structure and case marking in Japanese: Syntax and semantics by Shigeru Miyagawa (1989)

Studies in Language 15:2 pp. 399–414 | book review

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