Saeko Machi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Saeko Machi plays a role.
Articles
2024 Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/ kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese Pragmatics 34:1, pp. 109–133 | Article
This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to… read more
2019 Managing relationships through repetition: How repetition creates ever-shifting relationships in Japanese conversation Pragmatics 29:1, pp. 57–82 | Article
This study examines cross-speaker repetition in triadic conversations in the Japanese language. For the analysis, three sets of triadic conversations between close friends taken from a TV talk show are used. The results reveal that repetition in triadic conversations performs distinctive… read more