Tomoko I. Sakita
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tomoko I. Sakita plays a role.
Articles
2017 Stance management in oral narrative: The role of discourse marker well and resonance Stance, resonance and the power of engagement, Nir, Bracha and Elisabeth Zima (eds.), pp. 65–93 | Article
This paper investigates how actively the speaker engages in taking stance at various levels in oral narrative. By using Du Bois’ (2007) stance theory, it shows that the meta-stance marker well, a discourse marker that performs the management of stance relations in conversational interaction… read more
2013 Discourse markers as stance markers: Well in stance alignment in conversational interaction Pragmatics & Cognition 21:1, pp. 81–116 | Article
Stance is inherent in conversational interaction and is interactional in nature. When speakers take a stance, they pay attention to both prior stances and stance relations, as well as to the anticipated consequences of their stancetaking. They manage stance relations as a way of dealing with the… read more
2006 Parallelism in conversation: Resonance, schematization, and extension from the perspective of dialogic syntax and cognitive linguistics Pragmatics & Cognition 14:3, pp. 467–500 | Article
Speakers often construct their utterances based on the immediately co-present utterances of dialogue partners. They array their linguistic resources parallel to their partners’ and activate resonance. Based on the theories of dialogic syntax and cognitive linguistics, this study undertakes to… read more
2002 8. Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English reporting discourse Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom and Manfred von Roncador (eds.), pp. 173–198 | Chapter