Nagoya University

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

Gu, Xiaolan, Wanshu Qiao, Xiaofei Zhao & Yushu Wu 2026 Review of Researching multilingually: Conceptual and methodological failures, struggles and success edited by Bridget Goodman & Brian Seilstad (2025)

Language Problems and Language Planning | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Yasui, Eiko 2025 Vocal resource of effort and force in interaction: Japanese yoisho/iyoisho in dance instructions

Keywords: yoisho | vocal resource | prosody | grammar and body | multimodal conversation analysis | instruction of body movements

Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 pp. 69–98 | article

Hayano, Kaoru & Makoto Hayashi 2023 Post-confirmation modifications: Trajectories of un-initiated responses to polar questions in Japanese

Keywords: conversation analysis | “yes but” answers | Japanese | un | responses to polar question | confirmation | modification | grammar

In: Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] pp. 272–300

Yamashita, Junko, Kunihiro Kusanagi & Toshihiko Shiotsu 2024 Development of EFL reading rate in adolescents in Japan: A longitudinal study

Keywords: reading rate | EFL | longitudinal | secondary school | adolescent | latent growth curve modeling | word recognition | phonological processing | orthographic processing | vocabulary

Journal of Second Language Studies 6:2 pp. 238–265 | article

Park, Innhwa, Rachel S. Y. Chen, Jan Gorisch, Song Hee Park, Nadja Tadic & Eiko Yasui 2023 The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts

Keywords: conversation analysis | multi-unit turn | interlocking organization | topic management | topic shift | disjunction | inbreath | turn design

Pragmatics 35:1 pp. 51–71 | article

Yamashita, Junko 2022 L2 reading comprehension: Theory and research

In: Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations, Jeon, Eun Hee & Yo In'nami (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 13] p. 5 | open access

Jeon, Eun Hee & Junko Yamashita 2022 L2 reading comprehension and its correlates: An updated meta-analysis

In: Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations, Jeon, Eun Hee & Yo In'nami (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 13] pp. 29–86 | open access

Matsumoto, Yo, Kimi Akita, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Hiroaki Koga, Miho Mano, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi & Yuko Yoshinari 2022 Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study

Keywords: deixis | fictive motion | Implicit-figure construction | path | typology

In: Neglected Aspects of Motion Events Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure & Benjamin Fagard (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 72] pp. 43–67

Akita, Kimi & Keiko Murasugi 2022 Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond

Keywords: Construction Morphology | hierarchical lexicon | iconicity | ideophones | immediacy | irreversibility | linguistic freezes | mimetics | morphology | neologisms

In: The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond, Toratani, Kiyoko (ed.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] pp. 111–132

Akita, Kimi & Mutsumi Imai 2022 The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism

In: Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg & Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] pp. 27–46

Park, Ji-Yeon 2022 The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak

In: Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg & Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] pp. 369–388

Nunome, Takako, Shu-Ling Wu & Jun Wang 2022 日籍学习者对汉语空间移动事件描述方法之研究 [A Study on Japanese Learners’ Acquisition of L2 Chinese Motion Expressions]

Keywords: 空间移动事件 | 日籍学习者 | 趋向补语 | 偏误分析 | 交际策略 | 语际和语内迁移 | motion event | Japanese learner | directional complement | error analysis | interlingual and intralingual transfer

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 57:1 pp. 1–20 | article

Akita, Kimi & Yo Matsumoto 2020 A fine-grained analysis of manner salience: Experimental evidence from Japanese and English

Keywords: expressiveness | frog stories | ideophones | mimetics | sounds of motion | video experiment

In: Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, Matsumoto, Yo & Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 69] pp. 143–180

Akita, Kimi 2020 Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese

In: Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] p. 3

Park, Ji-Yeon 2020 Morphosyntactic integration of ideophones in Japanese and Korean: A corpus-based analysis of spoken and written discourse

In: Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 17] pp. 57–74

Akita, Kimi 2020 A typology of depiction marking: The prosody of Japanese ideophones and beyond

Keywords: depiction | ideophones | Japanese | prosody | quotations

Studies in Language 45:4 pp. 866–887 | article

Miyata, Rei & Kyo Kageura 2018 Building controlled bilingual terminologies for the municipal domain and evaluating them using a coverage estimation approach

Keywords: controlled bilingual terminology | term variation management | coverage estimation | vocabulary growth | municipal domain

Terminology 24:2 pp. 149–180 | article

Yamashita, Junko 2018 Possibility of semantic involvement in the L1-L2 congruency effect in the processing of L2 collocations

Keywords: collocation | congruent | incongruent | semantic transparency | L1 influence | item analysis

Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1 pp. 60–78 | article

Fox, Barbara A., Fay Wouk, Steven Fincke, Wilfredo Hernandez Flores, Makoto Hayashi, Minna Laakso, Yael Maschler, Abolghasem Mehrabi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Susanne Uhmann & Hyun Jung Yang 2017 Morphological self-repair: Self-repair within the word

Keywords: repair | typology | morphological structure

Studies in Language 41:3 pp. 638–659 | article

Horie, Kaoru 2017 The attributive versus final distinction and the manifestation of “main clause phenomena” in Japanese and Korean noun modifying clause constructions

Keywords: main clause phenomena | addressee politeness | quoted speech | attributive forms | sentence-final forms

In: Noun-modifying clause constructions in languages of Eurasia, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie & Peter Sells (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 116] pp. 45–57

Moriya, Tetsuharu & Kaoru Horie 2015 The Neg-Raising Phenomenon as a product of grammaticalization

In: New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale & Richard Waltereit (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 166] pp. 121–134

Oshima, David & Shin-ichiro Sano 2012 On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse: A study with special reference to elliptic quotation

In: Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Buchstaller, Isabelle & Ingrid van Alphen (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] pp. 145–172

Horie, Kaoru 2011 Versatility of nominalizations: Where Japanese and Korean contrast

In: Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 96] pp. 473–496

Tamaoka, Katsuo, Hyunjung Lim Yamaguchi, Yayoi Miyaoka & Sachiko Kiyama 2010 Effects of gender-identity and gender-congruence on levels of politeness among young Japanese and Koreans

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:1 pp. 23–45 | article

Ikeda, Keiko 2009 Audience participation through interjection: Japanese municipal council sessions

Keywords: Japan | Japanese political discourse | Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly | audience participation | sociolinguistic styles | audience interjections

Journal of Language and Politics 8:1 pp. 52–71 | article

Ito, Akihiro & Junko Yamashita 2005 A corpus-based validation study of the universal processing hypothesis in English relative clause formation

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 149-150:1 pp. 77–91 | article

Ito, Akihiro & Junko Yamashita 2003 An Analysis of Genitive Relative Clauses in a British Written English Corpus: Is there another Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy?

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 141-142:1 pp. 247–254 | article

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