Kuniyoshi Kataoka
Biographic Data
| ID | 232925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuniyoshi Kataoka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kuniyoshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kataoka |
| SIGNATURE | KATAOKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aichi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3942-5332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial: A case study of ethnopoetic texts and beyond
By examining a popular Japanese TV commercial as an archetypal example of discursive practice, this paper shows that quotidian discourse is poetically organized and achieved through multimodally accumulated preferences in order to maximize appeal for anticipated recipients. Building on this assumption, a linguistic anthropological approach, called ‘ethnopoetics’, is adopted and modified to elucidate the cultural norms and assumptions embedded in …
Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing: Use of sentence-final particles ne and yo and orthographic conventions
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Scale of ‘Relevance’ and Complementarity: Focusing on Schematic and Poetic Formations of Interaction
The interplay of language, cognition, and culture has attracted the utmost attention of linguistic anthropologists since the inception of their discipline. By locating a research juncture for these three themes, this study focuses on both verbal and nonverbal elements employed in an interview with victims of the Fukushima disaster. More specifically, this study explores a scale of ‘relevance’ of these individuals to this disaster at four levels; …
Poetics through Body and Soul: A Plurimodal Approach
In this presentation, I will show that various multimodal resources—such as utterance, prosody, rhythm, schematic images, and bodily reactions—may integratively contribute to the holistic achievement of poeticity. By incorporating the ideas from “ethnopoetics” (Hymes 1981, 1996) and “gesture studies” (McNeill 1992, 2005), I will present a plurimodal analysis of naturally occurring interactions by highlighting the interplay among the verbal, nonve…
The Spoken Histories of the Indigenous (Part 1)
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
Synchronic and diachronic variation in the use of spatial frames of reference: An analysis of Japanese route instruction
By focusing on everyday use of spatial ‘frames of reference’ ( FOR ) in route instruction, we propose some possible explanations for the seemingly contradictory trends observed in FOR ‐based and deixis‐based spatial expressions in Japanese. We examined the data obtained in a series of longitudinal surveys conducted in Japan over 50 years (1953, 1972 and 2008). Our GoldVarb analysis confirmed what is called a ‘retrograde’ lifespan change. This ind…
"We just don't get it right!"-Multimodal competence for resolving spatial conflict in wayfinding discourse
Decentering and recentering communicative competence
Toward multimodal ethnopoetics
Multimodal analysis of discourse is a fast-developing area of linguistic research. With this trend in mind, the purpose of the current chapter is twofold: first, to briefly review previous endeavors in the study of linguistic poetics with special attention to parallelism and repetition (cf. Jakobson 1960, 1966), and to seek potential paths to expand it to multimodal analyses of natural discourse by incorporating the ideas from ethnopoetics (Hymes…
"The "body poetics: Repeated rhythm as a cultural asset for Japanese life-saving instruction
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 2): Catchment, prosody, and frames of reference in Japanese spatial narrative
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 1): Text, gesture, and environment in Japanese spatial narrative
Variability of spatial frames of reference in wayfinding discourse on commercial signboards
This study focuses on the everyday use of spatial frames of reference (FoR) and seeks to elucidate the underlying principles for guiding viewers from a signboard to a destination. Using Levinson's tripartite typology of FoR – absolute, relative, and intrinsic – and a VARBRUL analysis, it is shown that each FoR is differentially preferred depending on distinct geographic features of the route and the environment. Specifically, as geographic scale …
Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing
Young Japanese women effectively construct and manipulate their emotive stances through the use of special pictorial signs and their graph(em)ic modifications in casual letter-writing among friends. To achieve this, the writers use a para-/metalinguistic and indexical means of “contextualization” for the socio-cultural mediation of affect and textual awareness. At the same time, they heavily rely on such cognitive mechanisms as “schematization” a…
Gravity or Levity: Vertical Space in Japanese Rock Climbing Instructions
In notional frameworks of space, "(relative) ego-centricity" and "(absolute) gravity" are assumed to be the dominant criteria for coordinating the horizontal and vertical dimensions. This article looks critically at the second criterion, the supremacy of gravity-based verticality. By drawing on the discourse data from rock climbers, I propose that the absolute value assigned to vertical space may have been overestimated in European conceptualizat…
Affect and letter-writing: Unconventional conventions in casual writing by young Japanese women
With special attention to the use of unconventional practices and pictorial signs in casual letter writing, this article shows how young Japanese women effectively exploit affect-laden shape, form, and function in order to establish intimate and solidary relationships. They rely on both conventional and unconventional aspects of Japanese orthography, encoding affect specific to the given context and merging spoken with written modes of self-repre…
Affect and letter-writing: Unconventional conventions in casual writing by young Japanese women
With special attention to the use of unconventional practices and pictorial signs in casual letter writing, this article shows how young Japanese women effectively exploit affect-laden shape, form, and function in order to establish intimate and solidary relationships. They rely on both conventional and unconventional aspects of Japanese orthography, encoding affect specific to the given context and merging spoken with written modes of self-repre…
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 1): Text, gesture, and environment in Japanese spatial narrative
Decentering and recentering communicative competence
Toward multimodal ethnopoetics
Multimodal analysis of discourse is a fast-developing area of linguistic research. With this trend in mind, the purpose of the current chapter is twofold: first, to briefly review previous endeavors in the study of linguistic poetics with special attention to parallelism and repetition (cf. Jakobson 1960, 1966), and to seek potential paths to expand it to multimodal analyses of natural discourse by incorporating the ideas from ethnopoetics (Hymes…
Gravity or Levity: Vertical Space in Japanese Rock Climbing Instructions
In notional frameworks of space, "(relative) ego-centricity" and "(absolute) gravity" are assumed to be the dominant criteria for coordinating the horizontal and vertical dimensions. This article looks critically at the second criterion, the supremacy of gravity-based verticality. By drawing on the discourse data from rock climbers, I propose that the absolute value assigned to vertical space may have been overestimated in European conceptualizat…
"The "body poetics: Repeated rhythm as a cultural asset for Japanese life-saving instruction
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 2): Catchment, prosody, and frames of reference in Japanese spatial narrative
Variability of spatial frames of reference in wayfinding discourse on commercial signboards
This study focuses on the everyday use of spatial frames of reference (FoR) and seeks to elucidate the underlying principles for guiding viewers from a signboard to a destination. Using Levinson's tripartite typology of FoR – absolute, relative, and intrinsic – and a VARBRUL analysis, it is shown that each FoR is differentially preferred depending on distinct geographic features of the route and the environment. Specifically, as geographic scale …
Poetics through Body and Soul: A Plurimodal Approach
In this presentation, I will show that various multimodal resources—such as utterance, prosody, rhythm, schematic images, and bodily reactions—may integratively contribute to the holistic achievement of poeticity. By incorporating the ideas from “ethnopoetics” (Hymes 1981, 1996) and “gesture studies” (McNeill 1992, 2005), I will present a plurimodal analysis of naturally occurring interactions by highlighting the interplay among the verbal, nonve…
Synchronic and diachronic variation in the use of spatial frames of reference: An analysis of Japanese route instruction
By focusing on everyday use of spatial ‘frames of reference’ ( FOR ) in route instruction, we propose some possible explanations for the seemingly contradictory trends observed in FOR ‐based and deixis‐based spatial expressions in Japanese. We examined the data obtained in a series of longitudinal surveys conducted in Japan over 50 years (1953, 1972 and 2008). Our GoldVarb analysis confirmed what is called a ‘retrograde’ lifespan change. This ind…
"We just don't get it right!"-Multimodal competence for resolving spatial conflict in wayfinding discourse
Affect and letter-writing: Unconventional conventions in casual writing by young Japanese women
With special attention to the use of unconventional practices and pictorial signs in casual letter writing, this article shows how young Japanese women effectively exploit affect-laden shape, form, and function in order to establish intimate and solidary relationships. They rely on both conventional and unconventional aspects of Japanese orthography, encoding affect specific to the given context and merging spoken with written modes of self-repre…
Gravity or Levity: Vertical Space in Japanese Rock Climbing Instructions
In notional frameworks of space, "(relative) ego-centricity" and "(absolute) gravity" are assumed to be the dominant criteria for coordinating the horizontal and vertical dimensions. This article looks critically at the second criterion, the supremacy of gravity-based verticality. By drawing on the discourse data from rock climbers, I propose that the absolute value assigned to vertical space may have been overestimated in European conceptualizat…
Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing
Young Japanese women effectively construct and manipulate their emotive stances through the use of special pictorial signs and their graph(em)ic modifications in casual letter-writing among friends. To achieve this, the writers use a para-/metalinguistic and indexical means of “contextualization” for the socio-cultural mediation of affect and textual awareness. At the same time, they heavily rely on such cognitive mechanisms as “schematization” a…
Variability of spatial frames of reference in wayfinding discourse on commercial signboards
This study focuses on the everyday use of spatial frames of reference (FoR) and seeks to elucidate the underlying principles for guiding viewers from a signboard to a destination. Using Levinson's tripartite typology of FoR – absolute, relative, and intrinsic – and a VARBRUL analysis, it is shown that each FoR is differentially preferred depending on distinct geographic features of the route and the environment. Specifically, as geographic scale …
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 1): Text, gesture, and environment in Japanese spatial narrative
A multi-modal ethnopoetic analysis (Part 2): Catchment, prosody, and frames of reference in Japanese spatial narrative
Toward multimodal ethnopoetics
Multimodal analysis of discourse is a fast-developing area of linguistic research. With this trend in mind, the purpose of the current chapter is twofold: first, to briefly review previous endeavors in the study of linguistic poetics with special attention to parallelism and repetition (cf. Jakobson 1960, 1966), and to seek potential paths to expand it to multimodal analyses of natural discourse by incorporating the ideas from ethnopoetics (Hymes…
"The "body poetics: Repeated rhythm as a cultural asset for Japanese life-saving instruction
"We just don't get it right!"-Multimodal competence for resolving spatial conflict in wayfinding discourse
Decentering and recentering communicative competence
Synchronic and diachronic variation in the use of spatial frames of reference: An analysis of Japanese route instruction
By focusing on everyday use of spatial ‘frames of reference’ ( FOR ) in route instruction, we propose some possible explanations for the seemingly contradictory trends observed in FOR ‐based and deixis‐based spatial expressions in Japanese. We examined the data obtained in a series of longitudinal surveys conducted in Japan over 50 years (1953, 1972 and 2008). Our GoldVarb analysis confirmed what is called a ‘retrograde’ lifespan change. This ind…
Poetics through Body and Soul: A Plurimodal Approach
In this presentation, I will show that various multimodal resources—such as utterance, prosody, rhythm, schematic images, and bodily reactions—may integratively contribute to the holistic achievement of poeticity. By incorporating the ideas from “ethnopoetics” (Hymes 1981, 1996) and “gesture studies” (McNeill 1992, 2005), I will present a plurimodal analysis of naturally occurring interactions by highlighting the interplay among the verbal, nonve…
The Spoken Histories of the Indigenous (Part 1)
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
Scale of ‘Relevance’ and Complementarity: Focusing on Schematic and Poetic Formations of Interaction
The interplay of language, cognition, and culture has attracted the utmost attention of linguistic anthropologists since the inception of their discipline. By locating a research juncture for these three themes, this study focuses on both verbal and nonverbal elements employed in an interview with victims of the Fukushima disaster. More specifically, this study explores a scale of ‘relevance’ of these individuals to this disaster at four levels; …
Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing: Use of sentence-final particles ne and yo and orthographic conventions
Preview this article: Affect in Japanese women's letter writing, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.5.4.02kat-1.gif
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial: A case study of ethnopoetic texts and beyond
By examining a popular Japanese TV commercial as an archetypal example of discursive practice, this paper shows that quotidian discourse is poetically organized and achieved through multimodally accumulated preferences in order to maximize appeal for anticipated recipients. Building on this assumption, a linguistic anthropological approach, called ‘ethnopoetics’, is adopted and modified to elucidate the cultural norms and assumptions embedded in …
Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)