Japan Women's University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Japan Women's University*

Titles

Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

EditorYoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft & Kishiko Ueno

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Culture and Language Use: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 24] 2025. | edited volume | open access

Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Edited by Robin T. Lakoff & Sachiko Ide

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp. | edited volume

Ide, Sachiko 2025  Ba pragmatics: A paradigm complementary to the Western theory of politeness

Keywords: politeness | ba | wakimae | ba theory | ba pragmatics | internal perspective | deep consciousness | imputed intention | Shimizu | Izutsu

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. 36–67 | open access

Fujii, Yoko 2025 Japanese as a ba-oriented and predicate-centered language: Non-western perspectives for the representation of the world

Keywords: ba/basho | ba theory | ba-oriented | agent-oriented | agency | predicate-centered | internal perspective | holistic/situation-focus | non-separation of self and other | pragmatics of ba

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. 68–96 | open access

Fujii, Yoko, Myung-Hee Kim, Natthaporn Panpothong, Siriporn Phakdeephasook, Yusuke Mochizuki & Yoko Kurogo 2025 Situating self and others in task-based interaction: A cross-linguistic study through ba theory

Keywords: ba-oriented language | agent-oriented language | Mister O Corpus | ba/basho | ba theory | non-separation of self and other | independent/interdependent self-construal | merging discourse | parts as a whole

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. 347–380 | open access

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

Kuroshima, Satomi, Stephanie Hyeri Kim, Kaoru Hayano, Mary Shin Kim & Seung-Hee Lee 2021 When OKAY is repeated: Closing the talk so far in Korean and Japanese conversations

Keywords: duplicated OKAY | curtailing | sequence-closing third | expanded sequence | transitional phase | proposal to close | gap | lapse | sufficient | perseverance

In: OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] pp. 236–265

Takanashi, Hiroko 2020 Playful naming in playful framing: The intertextual emergence of neologism

Keywords: stance | intertextuality | dialogism | resonance | neologism | play

In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako & Kaori Hata (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 239–264

Ide, Risako & Takako Okamoto 2020 The discursive construction of husband and wife bonding: Analyzing benefactives in childrearing narratives

Keywords: interview narratives | benefactives | -te kureru | -te morau | gender ideology | indexicality

In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako & Kaori Hata (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 61–82

Machi, Saeko 2019 Managing relationships through repetition: How repetition creates ever-shifting relationships in Japanese conversation

Keywords: cross-speaker repetition | triadic conversation | teaming | teasing | threefold repetition | repetition relay | co-construction of a story | the Japanese language

Pragmatics 29:1 pp. 57–82 | article | open access

Takanashi, Hiroko 2018 Stance

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] p.  ff.

Ide, Sachiko 2008 Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in Japanese

In: Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 3, Hellinger, Marlis & Hadumod Bußmann (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 11] pp. 227–238

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