Keiko Yoshioka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Keiko Yoshioka plays a role.
2019 Chapter 11. Iconicity in L2 Japanese speakers’ multi-modal language use: Mimetics and co-speech gesture in relation to L1 and Japanese proficiency Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 265–302 | Chapter
Japanese mimetics are often reported to be difficult for speakers of Japanese as a second/foreign language (L2). Recent work examining L2 Japanese learners’ comprehension/perception (e.g., Naito-Billen 2013; Nakaishi et al. 2014) found that understanding mimetics is indeed challenging even for… read more
2012 18. The role of grammar in the conceptualisation of ‘progression’: A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 417–436 | Article
In this chapter, we explore the universal and language-specific features of how we speak and think about dynamic temporal relations. Previous studies suggest that the availability of grammaticalised aspect affects temporal perspective-taking (e.g. Carroll, von Stutterheim, and Nüse 2004; von… read more
2010 Gesture and information structure in first and second language Gestures in Language Development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 93–112 | Article
2008 Gesture and information structure in first and second language Gestures in language development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 236–255 | Article
This study investigates the frequency of gestural marking of pre-introduced referents in discourse by Dutch learners of Japanese with native data as baseline. Of interest is whether learners’ over-explicit marking of referents in speech and gesture reported in the literature is a phenomenon… read more
2006 Manual Introduction of Animate Referents in L2 Narrative Discourse Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition: In Japanese Context, Yoshitomi, Asako, Tae Umino and Masashi Negishi (eds.), pp. 179–199 | Article