Momoko Nakamura

Biographic Data

ID3780567
NAMEMomoko Nakamura
GIVEN NAMESMomoko
FAMILY NAMENakamura
SIGNATURENAKAMURA M
AFFILIATIONSKanto Gakuin University
ORCID0000-0003-2998-0973
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Sexism and Homophobia in Japanese

    Open AccessShigeko Okamoto, Momoko NakamuraARTICLEContrastive Pragmatics2026

    This article first discusses the main theoretical and methodological issues addressed by the studies presented in this special issue of Contrastive Pragmatics . It then gives a summary discussion of each study

  • Expanding the Research on Binary Pronouns

    Open AccessMomoko NakamuraARTICLEContrastive Pragmatics2025

    This paper argues that the study of binary personal pronouns needs to move beyond European languages and the focus on third-person pronouns, and it supports this argument by presenting the problem of the Japanese linguistic norm of binarily gendered first-person pronouns. The Japanese case illustrates five ways in which this field of study should expand. First, binary pronoun studies cannot continue to neglect first-person pronouns. Second, in ad…

  • The regimentation of femininities in the world

    Momoko NakamuraARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2023References: 28

    This paper aims to demonstrate the ideological workings of translation by analyzing the ways Japanese women's language is employed to translate the speech of women in seven cities worldwide in a Japanese TV documentary series. The analysis finds that the TV production team allocates the features of Japanese women's language differently to the speech of women according to region, drawing boundaries between women in Europe and the Americas, those i…

  • The indexical regimentation of a male youth style in Japanese

    Momoko NakamuraARTICLEEast Asian Pragmatics2021

    This study explores how metapragmatic discourse denies the potential of a set of linguistic features to be recognised as a legitimate polite style. Examining the ways male students employ a new Japanese speech style involving su, the shortened form of the polite copula desu, and lay people’s evaluations of the style on a Q&A website, I demonstrate that the style’s multiple social meanings in local interactions are reduced in the mediatised websit…

  • Linguistic impoliteness in a polite society

    Haruko Minegishi Cook, Momoko NakamuraARTICLEEast Asian Pragmatics2021

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  • Language, gender and sexuality in Japanese popular media

    Momoko NakamuraARTICLEGender and Language2020Cited by: 4References: 7

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  • The formation of a sociolinguistic style in translation

    Momoko NakamuraARTICLEGender and Language2020Cited by: 5References: 8

    This paper illustrates the powerful role of translation in creating a sociolinguistic style. Through a quantitative survey of Japanese native speakers and a qualitative analysis of translated speech in an imported TV show and its Japanese parody, the study shows that Japanese translation practices have invented and preserved a widely recognised Japanese style associated with non-Japanese men. The study demonstrates that the style is linked with a…

  • Masculinity and National Language

    Momoko NakamuraARTICLEGender and Language2008Cited by: 3References: 3

    The notion of a unified Japanese national language was an androcentric language ideology created during the period of Japanese nation-state building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its association with masculinity, however, was accomplished without being explicitly stated, rendering the national language an unmarked, hegemonic ideology for the entire nation. The implicit masculinization of the national language was construct…