Hirokuni Masuda

Biographic Data

ID649797
NAMEHirokuni Masuda
GIVEN NAMESHirokuni
FAMILY NAMEMasuda
SIGNATUREMASUDA H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
ORCID0000-0001-6796-9148
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Discourse module in mind: A biolinguistical hypothesis of macro-structure

    Hirokuni MasudaARTICLEText and Talk2021

    Theoretical linguistics embraces the analytic micro-system of representation as the core of language ability, and thus deals primarily with the computations of phonology, morphology, and syntax for structural processes. Looking into recent progress in human biology, however, there have been continuous indications that the internalized language is organized for creating structural sequences larger than phrases and sentences. Research on the right …

  • Narrative Representation Theory: Identifying the human language with superstructure

    Open AccessHirokuni MasudaARTICLEDiscourse Studies2017References: 69

    Narrative Representation Theory (NRT), an evolved framework of Verse Analysis, has come into existence with the mission of explaining the operation of macro-systemic structure that could be hardwired in the brain. Based on the analyses of creoles or archetypal human languages, the theory puts forward the premise stating that the fundamental design of the human language faculty possesses the computational system for internalized discourse. The the…

  • Narrative representation theory: A Creole-linguistic approach to superstructure

    Hirokuni MasudaARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2002

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  • Narrative Representation Theory: The Macrostructure in I-Language

    Hirokuni MasudaARTICLEDiscourse Processes2002Cited by: 1References: 64

    Narrative Representation Theory has emerged as a linguistics-based framework to account for the formation of macrosuperstructure in natural human languages. Previous studies on a wide range of linguistic systems including Native American languages, African American vernacular, varieties of Englishes, and Chinook jargon have discovered a systematic rule-governed pattern in their narrative discourse. This article claims that Creole languages, arche…

  • Verse Analysis and the Nature of Creole Discourse: Universals and Substrata

    Hirokuni MasudaARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1999

    This research applies Verse Analysis to the study of creole languages seeking evidence to support the two principal theories: universalist and sub-stratist theories. Evidence is presented from Hawaii Creole English (HCE), Guyanese Creole, and Japanese. HCE manifests in discourse a possibly universal feature of patterning (i.e., hierarchical grammatico-semantic recurrence), which is shared by Guyanese Creole as well as Chinook Jargon and quite a f…

  • Tsr Formation as a Discourse Substratum in Hawaii Creole English

    Hirokuni MasudaARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1995

    Hawaii Creole English presents a particular type of utterance structure, the "dollar utterance," which might be regarded as ill-formed in terms of the form-meaning coalition in Standard English (SE). Nonetheless, such an utterance seems to reflect an underlying discourse process in which three discourse representations — Theme, Scheme, Rheme — interact. An analysis is given within the framework of Schema theory to explain this unique linguistic p…

  • Versification and reiteration in Hawai'i Creole English: If nomo paila moen, awrail

    Open AccessHirokuni MasudaARTICLEWorld Englishes1995Cited by: 2References: 34

    Hawai'i Creole English (HCE), habitually called 'Pidgin' by the locals in Hawai'i, is frequently regarded as a form of destructured Standard English (SE). Nevertheless, such an idea seems to derive from lay understanding about creole languages in general, and particular characteristics that HCE owns are not inferior to SE but are simply different from it. HCE as well as other creoles presents rule-governed structures as Bickerton (1977, 1981, 199…