Kazuko Matsumoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kazuko Matsumoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kazuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsumoto |
| SIGNATURE | MATSUMOTO K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
NPs in Japanese conversation
This paper is a discourse-pragmatic analysis of nominal phrases (NPs) that speakers of Japanese produce in informal dyadic conversational interaction. More specifically, it examines NPs in terms of their relations to 'intonation units
The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau
This paper aims to reveal mechanisms of language maintenance and shift in the rural post-colonial multilingual island community of Palau in the Western Pacific, using social networks as an explanatory framework. I explore the usefulness of social networks from three perspectives, investigating whether and how social networks can explain changes in the use of former colonial languages in a post-colonial community; the functions of strong and weak …
Investigating the sociolinguistic gender paradox in a multilingual community
The focus of this article is the supposed “Gender Paradox,” proposed by Labov(1990,2001), which suggests that women are both sometimes conservative and sometimes innovative in terms of linguistic variation and change. Here we explore the paradox from two perspectives: we in vestigate both its applicability to multilingual as opposed to multidialectal communities as well as question whether the paradox is methodological or real. Although much soci…
Unit linking in conversational Japanese
Japanese intonation units and syntactic structure
This paper examines the preferred syntactic structure of the idea-conveying substantive “intonation unit” (IU) in conversational Japanese. It was found that (a) the clause is the syntactic exponent of the Japanese substantive IU; (b) the clauses are overwhelmingly single-IU clauses rather than multi-IU clauses; and (c) the multi-IU clauses exhibit a higher proportion of multiple new NPs than the single-IU counterparts. The results show that despi…
Intonation units, clauses and preferred argument structure in conversational Japanese
Intonation units and functional composition in Japanese conversational discourse
This paper examines informal face-to-face, two-party conversations in Japanese in order to explore the relationship between intonation units and functional composition. Specifically, the present study investigates the preferred functional structure of substantive intonation units that convey ideas of events, states, or referents. It was found that the Japanese substantive intonation unit preferentially consists of no more than two functional comp…
And-prefaced questions in institutional discourse
This paper presents a pragmatic account of and , a conjunction that iscommonly used by professional questioners as a question preface in institutional interactions. Based on some linguistic features characteristic of and -prefaced yes/no questions, it is argued that and -prefacing serves two main functions. It underscores a link to the anaphoric discourse (e.g. juxtaposition), thereby grouping the conjoined propositions as a coherent package of i…
The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau
This paper aims to reveal mechanisms of language maintenance and shift in the rural post-colonial multilingual island community of Palau in the Western Pacific, using social networks as an explanatory framework. I explore the usefulness of social networks from three perspectives, investigating whether and how social networks can explain changes in the use of former colonial languages in a post-colonial community; the functions of strong and weak …
Intonation units, clauses and preferred argument structure in conversational Japanese
And-prefaced questions in institutional discourse
This paper presents a pragmatic account of and , a conjunction that iscommonly used by professional questioners as a question preface in institutional interactions. Based on some linguistic features characteristic of and -prefaced yes/no questions, it is argued that and -prefacing serves two main functions. It underscores a link to the anaphoric discourse (e.g. juxtaposition), thereby grouping the conjoined propositions as a coherent package of i…
Unit linking in conversational Japanese
Intonation units and functional composition in Japanese conversational discourse
This paper examines informal face-to-face, two-party conversations in Japanese in order to explore the relationship between intonation units and functional composition. Specifically, the present study investigates the preferred functional structure of substantive intonation units that convey ideas of events, states, or referents. It was found that the Japanese substantive intonation unit preferentially consists of no more than two functional comp…
And-prefaced questions in institutional discourse
This paper presents a pragmatic account of and , a conjunction that iscommonly used by professional questioners as a question preface in institutional interactions. Based on some linguistic features characteristic of and -prefaced yes/no questions, it is argued that and -prefacing serves two main functions. It underscores a link to the anaphoric discourse (e.g. juxtaposition), thereby grouping the conjoined propositions as a coherent package of i…
Japanese intonation units and syntactic structure
This paper examines the preferred syntactic structure of the idea-conveying substantive “intonation unit” (IU) in conversational Japanese. It was found that (a) the clause is the syntactic exponent of the Japanese substantive IU; (b) the clauses are overwhelmingly single-IU clauses rather than multi-IU clauses; and (c) the multi-IU clauses exhibit a higher proportion of multiple new NPs than the single-IU counterparts. The results show that despi…
Intonation units, clauses and preferred argument structure in conversational Japanese
Investigating the sociolinguistic gender paradox in a multilingual community
The focus of this article is the supposed “Gender Paradox,” proposed by Labov(1990,2001), which suggests that women are both sometimes conservative and sometimes innovative in terms of linguistic variation and change. Here we explore the paradox from two perspectives: we in vestigate both its applicability to multilingual as opposed to multidialectal communities as well as question whether the paradox is methodological or real. Although much soci…
Unit linking in conversational Japanese
The role of social networks in the post-colonial multilingual island of Palau
This paper aims to reveal mechanisms of language maintenance and shift in the rural post-colonial multilingual island community of Palau in the Western Pacific, using social networks as an explanatory framework. I explore the usefulness of social networks from three perspectives, investigating whether and how social networks can explain changes in the use of former colonial languages in a post-colonial community; the functions of strong and weak …
NPs in Japanese conversation
This paper is a discourse-pragmatic analysis of nominal phrases (NPs) that speakers of Japanese produce in informal dyadic conversational interaction. More specifically, it examines NPs in terms of their relations to 'intonation units
Linguistics (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Syntax (3 works) · Communication (2 works)