Satoko Suzuki

List of John Benjamins publications in which Satoko Suzuki is involved.

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Emotive Communication in Japanese

Edited by Satoko Suzuki

It has become well recognized that affective dimensions of language constitute an integral part of the linguistic system. Japanese provides a prime example of the significance of emotivity as it has grammaticalized a wide variety of expressions to communicate affective information. The collected… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 151] 2006. x, 234 pp.

Suzuki, Satoko 2027 Chapter 3. Making connections: Reported speech, repetition, eccentric metaphor, and other resources in research interview discourse Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 50–70 | Chapter

This chapter demonstrates that even in institutional and formal contexts, participants can and do make emotional connections with each other. In my data of two-party research interviews, I observed some recurrent linguistic elements in moments of such connection: (1) reported speech,… read more

Suzuki, Satoko 2018 Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels Pragmatics 28:2, pp. 271–302 | Article

This study demonstrates that two types of language ideologies (linguistic nationalism and feminine language normativity) influence how Japanese contemporary novels represent non-Japanese characters’ speech. It investigates the role of gender and observes that novelists only infrequently assign… read more

Suzuki, Satoko 2018 Chapter 11. Linguistic nationalism and fictional deception: Metapragmatic stereotype of non-Japanese in Japan Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 267–288 | Chapter

In Japan many subscribe to linguistic nationalism expressed in propriety terms: only the ethnically Japanese possess the Japanese language and can speak it competently. This means, conversely, a metapragmatic stereotype regarding non-Japanese exists: non-Japanese cannot speak the language perfectly. read more

Suzuki, Satoko 2013 Connection and emotion: Extensive clause combining in contemporary Japanese fiction Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 147–167 | Article

This paper looks at the phenomenon of extensive clause combining in written Japanese discourse. Extensive clause combining, in which multiple clauses are combined to make an extremely long sentence, is usually associated with spoken discourse. However, some contemporary writers use it in their… read more

Suzuki, Satoko 2009 Vernacular style writing: Strategic blurring of the boundary between spoken and written discourse in Japanese Pragmatics 19:4, pp. 583–608 | Article

This paper shows that some Japanese non-fiction writers are using various structural characteristics of spoken discourse in their writing. Their written discourse includes non-canonical word order and long sentences that are produced by combining a series of clauses. Their sentences may lack case… read more

Suzuki, Satoko 2007 Metapragmatic function of quotative markers in Japanese Metapragmatics in Use, Bublitz, Wolfram and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 73–85 | Article

Suzuki, Satoko 2006 Emotive Communciation in Japanese: An Introduction Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 1–13 | Article

Suzuki, Satoko 2006 Surprise and disapproval: On how societal views of the outside correlate with linguistic expressions Emotive Communication in Japanese, Suzuki, Satoko (ed.), pp. 155–171 | Article

Suzuki, Satoko 2000 Surprise and animosity: The use of the copula da in quotative sentences in Japanese Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Article

Suzuki, Satoko 2000 De dicto complementation in Japanese Complementation: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Horie, Kaoru (ed.), pp. 33–57 | Chapter

Suzuki, Satoko 1998 Pejorative Connotation: A Case of Japanese Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 261–276 | Article

Suzuki, Satoko 1997 The Relevance of Factivity to Complementizer Choice in Japanese Studies in Language 21:2, pp. 287–311 | Article

This article re-examines the correlation between factivity and complementizer choice in Japanese. Kuno (1973) argues that the concept of factivity proposed by Kiparsky and Kiparsky (1971) to analyze the choice of complement types in English is a determining factor in complementizer choice in… read more

Suzuki, Satoko 1996 Incorporation of information and complementizers in Japanese Pragmatics 6:4, pp. 511–551 | Article