News
- 2024/May
- My new book, Approaches to Discourse Markers, (Hituzi publisher) will be on sale! This book includes introduction of primary approaches to DMs (Schiffrin, Fraser, and Brinton); synchronic and diachronic studies on DMs; proposed mechanisms for the development of DMs (grammaticalization, constructionalization, cooptation, etc.), and more! Hope it will be one of your ‘study-aid books’ for Discourse Analysis and Discourse Markers.
- 2024/03/17
- HiSoPra* Group Annual meeting was held online. I talked on “Current Trends on the Diachronic Studies of Discourse Markers”. It’s fun to meet other participants and audience even though through ZOOM. Good to discuss HiSoPra topics at this meeting!
- 2024/03/14
- This is an Aogaku campus news … The Hawaiian Hula Group Ulwehi ,of which Faculty advisor I serve, won the first-place award from the university. Ulwehi has won the 1st place at College Hula Competition in 2021, 22, and 23. Congratulations, Ulwehi, and best wishes for the coming years!
- 2022/11/26-27
- The 25th annual meeting of PSJ (the Pragmatics Society of Japan) was held as a hybrid meeting (Zoom and partly face-to-face). PSJ celebrated its quarter-century history since its founding.
- 2022/9/20
- In the fall semester, the graduate class dealt with Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies by Wodak and Meyer’s volume. We also read two CDS papers (One on ‘moe kyara’). We found that the CDS approach was useful especially when attempting to explore some social issues (related to ethnicity, gender, etc.).
- 2022/8
- East Asian Pragmatics: Commonalities and Variations (eds. by Xinren Chen and Doreen Wu; Routledge) was published. This is the first volume reviewing the Pragmatics studies up to 2021 in the three East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). I edited the mss from the Japan team. Please take a look as a review of previous studies of main pragmatic topics in the 3 languages. The publishing year is 2023.
- 2022/3/11
HiSoPra* Group Annual Meeting will be held online ! Come join us!!
- 2021/12/18-19
The 24th Annual Meeting of the Japan Pragmatics Society of Japan was held online (originally scheduled for Tohoku University). Hope the 25th Annual Meeting will be held face-to-face. Look forward to seeing you all !!
- 2021/Forthcoming.
My volume chapter “Chapter 9 Regularities in discourse” will appear in Fumio Inoue and Kazuko Tanabe (eds.) Shakaigengogaku no Wakugumi [Framework of Sociolinguistics], Kurosio Publishers.
- 2021/October.
My volume chapter “From intersubjective to textual: Another shift in meaning/functional change” appeared in Midori Amano and Naoko Hayase (eds.) Koobun to Shukansei [Constructions and Subjectivity], Kurosio Publishers.
- 2021/6/29
Workshop From Intersubjective to Textual Function: Motivation for the Rise of Discourse Markers/Pragmatic Elements was held at the Online 17th IPrA conference (Organizer: Onodera). This IPrA was originally scheduled for Winterthur, Switzerland. Panelists: Mitsuko and Katsunobu Izutsu, Ryo Takamura, Elena Graf, Yueh-Hsin Kuo, Giulio Scivoletto, Bing Zhu, Onodera. Discussant: Elizabeth Traugott.
During the two sessions, presentations, comments, and discussions were given, which we all enjoyed. Thank you all for joining this panel and many thanks to the audience! This panel involved four different Time Zones: early morning in the US and till midnight in Japan.