Ikuko Nakane
Biographic Data
| ID | 266151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ikuko Nakane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ikuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakane |
| SIGNATURE | NAKANE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6523-4030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
Varying orientations to sharing life stories
Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals' language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers' stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally…
Are ‘advanced’ Japanese language programs sustainable? A look at Australia, New Zealand and Singapore
Economic, strategic and cultural connections to Japan have never been stronger and more students across the breadth of our education system, primary through to tertiary, continue to be interested in studying Japanese. But what, beyond Demon Slayer and Pokemon, motivates them and how can that knowledge help universities to build effective and engaging language programs? Japanese is one of the most popular Asian languages taught at tertiary institu…
Courtroom Discourse of the ‘Hybrid’ Japanese Criminal Justice System
In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel’s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge’s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit ‘the truth.’ This paper aims …
Japanese Women's Speech through Life-Transitions (1989-2000)
This study analyses four women's speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast …
Shifting communication practices in Japanese courtrooms
Japanese criminal trials have shifted towards a more adversarial orientation following major law reform implemented over the past 20 years. Lawyers have had to adapt to the new context of professional communication with lay judges, who sit with professional judges in some trials rather than taking the role of citizen juries
Edition 2 Introduction
Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground."Walt Whitman Language is a profoundly potent tool and the academic study of language goes well beyond the analysis of words and grammatical rules.As American poet Walt Whitman sugge…
Courtroom Discourse of the ‘Hybrid’ Japanese Criminal Justice System
In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel’s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge’s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit ‘the truth.’ This paper aims …
“Is it the case that … ?”
This article explores the adversarial nature of Japanese criminal court proceedings by analyzing functions of the questions with X to iu koto ga arimasu ka? (‘Is it the case that X took place?’), based on courtroom discourse data and trial manuals for legal professionals. To discuss the roles of lawyers’ questions with the projection with the frame “Is it the case that ... ?” in witness examination, the projection’s ideational, textual and interp…
Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan
Language Rights in Japanese Criminal Courts
Since the 1980s, Japan has seen a sharp increase in the number of non-Japanese-speaking background defendants in criminal trials. This has posed a major challenge to the Japanese justice system, which must ensure non-Japanese defendants’ rights to receive a fair trial in a language that they are able to understand and use fluently and accurately. Drawing on the author’s fieldwork in Japanese criminal courts and close linguistic analysis of actual…
The role of silence in interpreted police interviews
Partial Non-use of Interpreters in Japanese Criminal Court Proceedings
This paper reports findings of a study which examined court proceedings with the presence of an interpreter in Japanese criminal courts. With the increasing awareness of language rights over the last decade and the recent introduction of the saiban-in (lay judge) system, courtroom discourse involving non-Japanese speaking background (NJSB) people is increasingly under scrutiny as an issue of language in public spaces, and improvements have been m…
The Myth of an 'Invisible Mediator
Recent studies have challenged the assumption that the interpreter is an ‘invisible’ mediator and have demonstrated a departure from the ‘conduit’ role often assigned to interpreters in their professional ethics guidelines (e.g. Russell 2000, Wadensjö 1998, 2004; Yoshida 2007). In this paper, I address the issue of interpreter’s role as an invisible mediator through an examination of interactional ‘repairs’, one of the key aspects of interaction …
Privileging of Speech in EAP and Mainstream University Classrooms
Perceptions of Asian students as silent have been widely debated in the disciplines of applied linguistics and education. These debates have been largely concerned with the extent to which essentialised notions of Japanese culture are in operation and the consequences for teaching and learning. The silences of students and the expectations of their teachers for speech have been viewed as a clash of perceptions and understandings based on intercul…
Problems in Communicating the Suspect's Rights in Interpreted Police Interviews
At first glance, communicating a suspect's rights in police interviews appears to be a straightforward task. However, it is more complex than it appears. In particular, for suspects who come from different cultural backgrounds or legal systems and who rely on interpreters in police interviews, ensuring a thorough understanding of their rights and appropriately invoking these rights can be difficult. This paper examines police interviews in which …
Negotiation of Contingent Talk
Silence and politeness in intercultural communication in university seminars
Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom
Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom
Students from East Asian countries studying at universities in the West are often found to be ‘silent’ or ‘reticent’ in the classroom, and this has been widely described as due to cultural differences in classroom practices and in approaches to knowledge underlying them (Braddock et al. 1995; Ballard 1996; Jones 1999; Liu 2000). However, few attempts have been made to examine interactive situations in the classroom from a micro-analytic perspecti…
Silence and politeness in intercultural communication in university seminars
The role of silence in interpreted police interviews
Privileging of Speech in EAP and Mainstream University Classrooms
Perceptions of Asian students as silent have been widely debated in the disciplines of applied linguistics and education. These debates have been largely concerned with the extent to which essentialised notions of Japanese culture are in operation and the consequences for teaching and learning. The silences of students and the expectations of their teachers for speech have been viewed as a clash of perceptions and understandings based on intercul…
Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom
Students from East Asian countries studying at universities in the West are often found to be ‘silent’ or ‘reticent’ in the classroom, and this has been widely described as due to cultural differences in classroom practices and in approaches to knowledge underlying them (Braddock et al. 1995; Ballard 1996; Jones 1999; Liu 2000). However, few attempts have been made to examine interactive situations in the classroom from a micro-analytic perspecti…
The Myth of an 'Invisible Mediator
Recent studies have challenged the assumption that the interpreter is an ‘invisible’ mediator and have demonstrated a departure from the ‘conduit’ role often assigned to interpreters in their professional ethics guidelines (e.g. Russell 2000, Wadensjö 1998, 2004; Yoshida 2007). In this paper, I address the issue of interpreter’s role as an invisible mediator through an examination of interactional ‘repairs’, one of the key aspects of interaction …
Varying orientations to sharing life stories
Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals' language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers' stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally…
Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom
Negotiating silence and speech in the classroom
Students from East Asian countries studying at universities in the West are often found to be ‘silent’ or ‘reticent’ in the classroom, and this has been widely described as due to cultural differences in classroom practices and in approaches to knowledge underlying them (Braddock et al. 1995; Ballard 1996; Jones 1999; Liu 2000). However, few attempts have been made to examine interactive situations in the classroom from a micro-analytic perspecti…
Silence and politeness in intercultural communication in university seminars
Problems in Communicating the Suspect's Rights in Interpreted Police Interviews
At first glance, communicating a suspect's rights in police interviews appears to be a straightforward task. However, it is more complex than it appears. In particular, for suspects who come from different cultural backgrounds or legal systems and who rely on interpreters in police interviews, ensuring a thorough understanding of their rights and appropriately invoking these rights can be difficult. This paper examines police interviews in which …
Negotiation of Contingent Talk
The Myth of an 'Invisible Mediator
Recent studies have challenged the assumption that the interpreter is an ‘invisible’ mediator and have demonstrated a departure from the ‘conduit’ role often assigned to interpreters in their professional ethics guidelines (e.g. Russell 2000, Wadensjö 1998, 2004; Yoshida 2007). In this paper, I address the issue of interpreter’s role as an invisible mediator through an examination of interactional ‘repairs’, one of the key aspects of interaction …
Privileging of Speech in EAP and Mainstream University Classrooms
Perceptions of Asian students as silent have been widely debated in the disciplines of applied linguistics and education. These debates have been largely concerned with the extent to which essentialised notions of Japanese culture are in operation and the consequences for teaching and learning. The silences of students and the expectations of their teachers for speech have been viewed as a clash of perceptions and understandings based on intercul…
Partial Non-use of Interpreters in Japanese Criminal Court Proceedings
This paper reports findings of a study which examined court proceedings with the presence of an interpreter in Japanese criminal courts. With the increasing awareness of language rights over the last decade and the recent introduction of the saiban-in (lay judge) system, courtroom discourse involving non-Japanese speaking background (NJSB) people is increasingly under scrutiny as an issue of language in public spaces, and improvements have been m…
The role of silence in interpreted police interviews
Language Rights in Japanese Criminal Courts
Since the 1980s, Japan has seen a sharp increase in the number of non-Japanese-speaking background defendants in criminal trials. This has posed a major challenge to the Japanese justice system, which must ensure non-Japanese defendants’ rights to receive a fair trial in a language that they are able to understand and use fluently and accurately. Drawing on the author’s fieldwork in Japanese criminal courts and close linguistic analysis of actual…
Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan
“Is it the case that … ?”
This article explores the adversarial nature of Japanese criminal court proceedings by analyzing functions of the questions with X to iu koto ga arimasu ka? (‘Is it the case that X took place?’), based on courtroom discourse data and trial manuals for legal professionals. To discuss the roles of lawyers’ questions with the projection with the frame “Is it the case that ... ?” in witness examination, the projection’s ideational, textual and interp…
Shifting communication practices in Japanese courtrooms
Japanese criminal trials have shifted towards a more adversarial orientation following major law reform implemented over the past 20 years. Lawyers have had to adapt to the new context of professional communication with lay judges, who sit with professional judges in some trials rather than taking the role of citizen juries
Edition 2 Introduction
Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground."Walt Whitman Language is a profoundly potent tool and the academic study of language goes well beyond the analysis of words and grammatical rules.As American poet Walt Whitman sugge…
Courtroom Discourse of the ‘Hybrid’ Japanese Criminal Justice System
In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel’s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge’s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit ‘the truth.’ This paper aims …
Are ‘advanced’ Japanese language programs sustainable? A look at Australia, New Zealand and Singapore
Economic, strategic and cultural connections to Japan have never been stronger and more students across the breadth of our education system, primary through to tertiary, continue to be interested in studying Japanese. But what, beyond Demon Slayer and Pokemon, motivates them and how can that knowledge help universities to build effective and engaging language programs? Japanese is one of the most popular Asian languages taught at tertiary institu…
Courtroom Discourse of the ‘Hybrid’ Japanese Criminal Justice System
In the Japanese courtroom, an adversarial orientation is often manifested in the ways in which prosecution and defence counsels each utilize discourse strategies to construct competing narratives, for example, by asking coercive negative questions in cross-examination. Alternatively, counsel’s attempt at building a convincing narrative is at times thwarted by the judge’s inquisitorial orientation to attempt to elicit ‘the truth.’ This paper aims …
Japanese Women's Speech through Life-Transitions (1989-2000)
This study analyses four women's speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast …
Varying orientations to sharing life stories
Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals' language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers' stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally…
Introduction
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)