Research website for Noriko Onodera

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Teaching

Supervision

I will supervise research on the following themes in the following areas. Inquiries from the prospective students are most welcome.

  • Pragmatics: General pragmatics. Grice’s theory (implicature, maxims of conversation, etc.), Speech acts, politeness (Brown and Levinson, R. Lakoff, and Leech), deixis, Definition of pragmatics, border between pragmatics and semantics.
  • Discourse Analysis (DA): Approach to discourse analysis (how to collect and analyze discourse data), Theoretical concepts needed to analyze discourse (turns, floors, adjacency pairs, preference organization, discourse markers, fillers, hedges, pauses, etc.)
    Analysis of everyday conversations, Analysis of classroom discourse, Analysis of business settings. Youth language. Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies.

    Analysis of varieties caused from social factors (ethnicity, gender difference, age, generation, situation (formal vs. informal), social roles).

  • Historical Pragmatics: Grammaticalization or constructionalization of discourse markers/pragmatic factors. Rise of discourse markers. Semantic/functional change of discourse markers/pragmatic items. Subjectification/intersubjectification.
  • Sociolinguistics: Themes related to the social factors such as ethnicity, gender difference, age, generation, situation (formal vs. informal), social roles. Registers, diglossia, etc. Inquiries will be welcome.
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Courses taught at Aoyama Gakuin University (2025 tentative)

Undergraduate

  • Basic seminar in communication
  • Seminar in communication: Discourse analysis of English and Japanese conversations
  • Lecture in communication: Language and Society/Culture
  • Reading Ⅱ
  • Graduation thesis guidance

Graduate

  • Pragmatics
  • M.A. and Ph.D. research guidance
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Completed/Currently on-going BA, MA, and PhD research projects under my (co-)supervision

BA theses (For Day School BA theses, writing in English is required, while for Night School BA program closed in 2011, thesis writing in Japanese/English had been permitted.)

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  • How to Do Politics with Pronouns: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pronouns in Political Remarks
  • Analysis of the Functions of I Know : Potentiality of I Know as a Discourse Marker
  • Difference in the Use of Fillers in Remote- and Face-to-Face Conversations
  • Difference in the use of fillers in remote- and face-to-face conversations (2021)
  • Language acquisition in a multilingual society: With special reference to English language policy in Malaysia
  • The difference in Okinawans’ and Naichi Japanese ways of communication: Their conversational styles
  • Linguistic analysis of Filipino English
  • A comparative study of English and Japanese proverbs
  • Narrative analysis of ASL and English spoken language: Research on signed, spoken and written languages
  • A comparative analysis of English and Japanese conversations between a professor and a student
  • Social stratification of British and American English
  • A　study　of　effective　business　communication:　On　persuasive　skills　for　successful　business　communication
  • Comparative analysis of politeness strategies in English and Japanese business conversations
  • Politeness strategies in English and Japanese: Through the analysis of expressions of request and permission
  • Politeness in English and Japanese letters
  • Japanese women’s use of tag-like expressions in the same- and mixed- gender dyads
  • Gender difference in television commercials: Comparison of Japanese and English discourse
  • Strategies in complaining – contrastive analysis of two different language groups: Japanese and English
  • English-Japanese code-switching at working place in Japan

(Theses written in Japanese)

  • Request expressions in English
  • Strategies with implicature in male-female English conversations
  • The value of bilingual education to Spanish speakers in the US
  • Teaching communicative competence in junior-high school English pedagogy: Adoption of pragmatics theory
  • Youth language in Japanese and English
  • Politeness behaviour of Japanese and British workers in business settings
  • Loan words from English and Japanese in modern Korean: Consciousness and society of Korea
  • Comparative analysis of English and French discourse: From the viewpoint of relationship between the narrative structure and culture
  • Comparison of English and Japanese politeness strategies: Considerations for smooth communication
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Master’s theses

  • Politeness in interviews with Shohei Otani: Differences in American English and Japanese.
  • Cultural Characteristics in Spoken Discourse of Apology in American English and Japanese
  • An approach to discourse marker well: Functions and prosody
  • Generating successive applause : a systematically co-constructed activity of oratory
  • Linguistic politeness in subtitling : a comparative study between a Japanese film and its English subtitled version
  • A case study of college students' language use in Okinawa : bilingualism or diglossia?
  • Analysis of English speakers’ discourse (MA project written in Japanese)

Ph.D. dissertations

  • An interpersonal management marker: A study of discourse marker well in spoken discourse
  • Analysis of Japanese discourse from the perspectives of rhetoric function and decontextualization
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