Y Matsumoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 6095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Matsumoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsumoto |
| SIGNATURE | MATSUMOTO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1286-3829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Robin T. Lakoff and Her (Socio)linguistics
Associations between self-management strategies and clinical outcomes in depression: A cross-sectional survey
The number of self-management strategies rated as useful showed a stronger correlation with personal recovery than with depressive symptom severity. The use of a greater number of self-management strategies may be associated with higher levels of personal recovery
The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities wi…
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia
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On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal art
To help older adults living with cognitive impairments to engage in positive social interactions and maintain verbal creativity, intergenerational small-group sessions of haiku creation and appreciation activity were conducted online during the pandemic. Haiku , a short 17-syllable form of poetry originating in Japan, conveys simple yet emotive seasonal images free from the complexity or logical continuity required of prose. Accordingly, it offer…
An Experimental Exploration of Quotidian Framing
Quotidian framing is a pragmatic strategy originally observed in studies of conversations among older women in Japan (Matsumoto, 2011). In the observed conversations, when recounting a painful event such as the death of a husband, the narrator included trivial details from the perspective of ordinary life, thereby reframing the extraordinary event into the “quotidian” with the apparent effect of lightening the atmosphere and regaining a normal li…
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge
Pragmatics of Understanding: Centrality of the Local
Cross-cultural contrastive approaches motivate research that questions the universality premise of pragmatic theories by illustrating facts of local linguistic practices from diverse geographical areas. In the spirit of my earlier studies of Japanese (e.g. Matsumoto 1988, 1989), I suggest that contrastive pragmatics can lead the field of pragmatics to addressing variations in linguistic practice that go beyond the geographical diversity of cultur…
Flexibility and fluidity of grammar: Grammatical constructions in discourse and sociocultural context
Supplemental Material for Trust in Everyday Life
Taking the stance of quotidian in talking about pains: Resilience and defiance
In older Japanese women’s conversational interactions associated with psychologically challenging conditions such as experiences of illness and a husband’s death, there are segments told from a quotidian (or ordinary) perspective, i.e. a perspective that is affectively incongruous with the situation. With this quotidian (re)framing of their “painful” experiences, the participants collaboratively construct a quotidian positioning and stance, rathe…
Partnership between grammatical construction and interactional frame: The stand-alone noun-modifying construction in invocatory discourse
Building on the seminal work on grammar and frames (e.g. Fillmore 1982), in addition to recent studies that apply a construction grammar approach to the description of genres (Antonopoulou & Nikiforidou 2011; Nikiforidou 2010b; Östman 2005) and spoken discourse (Fischer 2011; Fried & Östman 2005), this paper highlights the importance of extending the analytical boundary of grammar to include interactional frames, e.g. genres and social interactio…
The power of the ordinary: Quotidian framing as a narrative strategy
Painful to playful: Quotidian frames in the conversational discourse of older Japanese women
Conversations about serious life changes in old age may be expected to sound painful, but data of conversational narratives by elderly Japanese women even on topics related to illnesses or the death of a husband show highly engaging, lively exchanges, frequently accompanied by humor and laughter among the participants. The common feature in the conversations recounting psychologically intense experiences is a shift to detailed depictions of speci…
Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in "interactional frames" (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) that are considered to be non-prototypical in conversational Japanese and demonstrates that social context and the purpose of the on-going discourse are…
Dealing with life changes: Humour in painful self-disclosures by elderly Japanese women
This paper examines the ways in which older people depict verbally the life changes that accompany old age. It reports a study of Japanese elderly women's casual conversations with their friends, during which they talked about their husbands' deaths and illnesses. A frequently observed discourse practice among old people is ‘painful self-disclosure’ (PSD), in which unhappy personal information on one's ill health, immobility or bereavement is rev…
Beyond stereotypes of old age: The discourse of elderly Japanese women
As with other socially categorized groups of people, the elderly do not escape being stereotyped by the more dominant groups in society. Old age is often perceived as a less significant stage of life after the peak of adulthood, one that represents decline from full physical, social, and linguistic competence. A question that presents itself is whether such stereotypical perceptions of the elderly are consistent with their actual lives and lingui…
Young women in the Meiji period as linguistic trendsetters
The normative speech associated with Japanese women today has been identified as a product of the Meiji government’s modernization project in the early 20th Century. In this article, we examine the speech style in question, which is found in novels, magazines, and other print media during the Meiji period (1868--1912), in conjunction with other notable expressions of the time (e.g. foreign borrowings). We also examine other cultural expressions o…
Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-aged Mothers
The origins of the common perceptions of femininity and of female roles within Japanese society have been illuminated in sociological and anthropological studies of Japanese women. For example, Lebra, describing the traditional socialization and discipline of young people in Japan, discusses an aspect of discipline that she labels “femininity training”: training in manners and comportment according to the culturally standardized codes of propriet…
‘We’ll be dead by then!’ – Comical Self-Disclosure by Elderly Japanese Women
The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions (review)
and elsewhere as a work containing the teachings of the Shingon monk Sho ken (1138 -96) as transcribed by his disciple Jo ken (1162 -1231)
Reply to Pizziconi
The rise and fall of Japanese nonsubject honorifics: The case of 'o-Verb-suru
Japanese-Style Noun Modification…in English
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 226-237
Politeness and conversational universals – observations from Japanese
Reexamination of the universality of face: Politeness phenomena in Japanese
Politeness and conversational universals – observations from Japanese
Reply to Pizziconi
Painful to playful: Quotidian frames in the conversational discourse of older Japanese women
Conversations about serious life changes in old age may be expected to sound painful, but data of conversational narratives by elderly Japanese women even on topics related to illnesses or the death of a husband show highly engaging, lively exchanges, frequently accompanied by humor and laughter among the participants. The common feature in the conversations recounting psychologically intense experiences is a shift to detailed depictions of speci…
The rise and fall of Japanese nonsubject honorifics: The case of 'o-Verb-suru
Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in "interactional frames" (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) that are considered to be non-prototypical in conversational Japanese and demonstrates that social context and the purpose of the on-going discourse are…
Dealing with life changes: Humour in painful self-disclosures by elderly Japanese women
This paper examines the ways in which older people depict verbally the life changes that accompany old age. It reports a study of Japanese elderly women's casual conversations with their friends, during which they talked about their husbands' deaths and illnesses. A frequently observed discourse practice among old people is ‘painful self-disclosure’ (PSD), in which unhappy personal information on one's ill health, immobility or bereavement is rev…
The power of the ordinary: Quotidian framing as a narrative strategy
Flexibility and fluidity of grammar: Grammatical constructions in discourse and sociocultural context
Young women in the Meiji period as linguistic trendsetters
The normative speech associated with Japanese women today has been identified as a product of the Meiji government’s modernization project in the early 20th Century. In this article, we examine the speech style in question, which is found in novels, magazines, and other print media during the Meiji period (1868--1912), in conjunction with other notable expressions of the time (e.g. foreign borrowings). We also examine other cultural expressions o…
Semantics and Pragmatics of Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 166-175
Reexamination of the universality of face: Politeness phenomena in Japanese
Japanese-Style Noun Modification…in English
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 226-237
Politeness and conversational universals – observations from Japanese
The rise and fall of Japanese nonsubject honorifics: The case of 'o-Verb-suru
Reply to Pizziconi
Alternative Femininity: Personae of Middle-aged Mothers
The origins of the common perceptions of femininity and of female roles within Japanese society have been illuminated in sociological and anthropological studies of Japanese women. For example, Lebra, describing the traditional socialization and discipline of young people in Japan, discusses an aspect of discipline that she labels “femininity training”: training in manners and comportment according to the culturally standardized codes of propriet…
‘We’ll be dead by then!’ – Comical Self-Disclosure by Elderly Japanese Women
The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions (review)
and elsewhere as a work containing the teachings of the Shingon monk Sho ken (1138 -96) as transcribed by his disciple Jo ken (1162 -1231)
Young women in the Meiji period as linguistic trendsetters
The normative speech associated with Japanese women today has been identified as a product of the Meiji government’s modernization project in the early 20th Century. In this article, we examine the speech style in question, which is found in novels, magazines, and other print media during the Meiji period (1868--1912), in conjunction with other notable expressions of the time (e.g. foreign borrowings). We also examine other cultural expressions o…
Dealing with life changes: Humour in painful self-disclosures by elderly Japanese women
This paper examines the ways in which older people depict verbally the life changes that accompany old age. It reports a study of Japanese elderly women's casual conversations with their friends, during which they talked about their husbands' deaths and illnesses. A frequently observed discourse practice among old people is ‘painful self-disclosure’ (PSD), in which unhappy personal information on one's ill health, immobility or bereavement is rev…
Beyond stereotypes of old age: The discourse of elderly Japanese women
As with other socially categorized groups of people, the elderly do not escape being stereotyped by the more dominant groups in society. Old age is often perceived as a less significant stage of life after the peak of adulthood, one that represents decline from full physical, social, and linguistic competence. A question that presents itself is whether such stereotypical perceptions of the elderly are consistent with their actual lives and lingui…
Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in "interactional frames" (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) that are considered to be non-prototypical in conversational Japanese and demonstrates that social context and the purpose of the on-going discourse are…
Painful to playful: Quotidian frames in the conversational discourse of older Japanese women
Conversations about serious life changes in old age may be expected to sound painful, but data of conversational narratives by elderly Japanese women even on topics related to illnesses or the death of a husband show highly engaging, lively exchanges, frequently accompanied by humor and laughter among the participants. The common feature in the conversations recounting psychologically intense experiences is a shift to detailed depictions of speci…
Partnership between grammatical construction and interactional frame: The stand-alone noun-modifying construction in invocatory discourse
Building on the seminal work on grammar and frames (e.g. Fillmore 1982), in addition to recent studies that apply a construction grammar approach to the description of genres (Antonopoulou & Nikiforidou 2011; Nikiforidou 2010b; Östman 2005) and spoken discourse (Fischer 2011; Fried & Östman 2005), this paper highlights the importance of extending the analytical boundary of grammar to include interactional frames, e.g. genres and social interactio…
The power of the ordinary: Quotidian framing as a narrative strategy
Taking the stance of quotidian in talking about pains: Resilience and defiance
In older Japanese women’s conversational interactions associated with psychologically challenging conditions such as experiences of illness and a husband’s death, there are segments told from a quotidian (or ordinary) perspective, i.e. a perspective that is affectively incongruous with the situation. With this quotidian (re)framing of their “painful” experiences, the participants collaboratively construct a quotidian positioning and stance, rathe…
Pragmatics of Understanding: Centrality of the Local
Cross-cultural contrastive approaches motivate research that questions the universality premise of pragmatic theories by illustrating facts of local linguistic practices from diverse geographical areas. In the spirit of my earlier studies of Japanese (e.g. Matsumoto 1988, 1989), I suggest that contrastive pragmatics can lead the field of pragmatics to addressing variations in linguistic practice that go beyond the geographical diversity of cultur…
Flexibility and fluidity of grammar: Grammatical constructions in discourse and sociocultural context
Supplemental Material for Trust in Everyday Life
Multiplicity in grammar: Modes, genres and Speaker's knowledge
An Experimental Exploration of Quotidian Framing
Quotidian framing is a pragmatic strategy originally observed in studies of conversations among older women in Japan (Matsumoto, 2011). In the observed conversations, when recounting a painful event such as the death of a husband, the narrator included trivial details from the perspective of ordinary life, thereby reframing the extraordinary event into the “quotidian” with the apparent effect of lightening the atmosphere and regaining a normal li…
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia
Preview this online first article: Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/10.1075/ps.23053.mat/ps.23053.mat-1.gif
On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal art
To help older adults living with cognitive impairments to engage in positive social interactions and maintain verbal creativity, intergenerational small-group sessions of haiku creation and appreciation activity were conducted online during the pandemic. Haiku , a short 17-syllable form of poetry originating in Japan, conveys simple yet emotive seasonal images free from the complexity or logical continuity required of prose. Accordingly, it offer…
The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities wi…
Psychology (20 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · History (7 works)