Akiko Okamura
List of John Benjamins publications for which Akiko Okamura plays a role.
Articles
2024 Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan: Mobility, contact, and koiné formation among Latin American immigrants Asia-Pacific Language Variation 10:1, pp. 40–66 | Article
This paper explores an emerging Brazilian Portuguese koiné spoken among Brazilian-dominant Latin American immigrants in Japan’s Greater Tokyo Area. It examines Strong-R (onset /r/) realizations by 79 speakers in the context of dialect and language contact within the diasporic setting. The… read more
2013 2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 33–44 | Article
This study aims to investigate how speakers employ personal pronouns (we, you, I) in two types of monologic academic speech, undergraduate lectures and public lectures, through analysis of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). Not only the frequency of instances of personal… read more
2005 Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists Strategies in Academic Discourse, Tognini-Bonelli, Elena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 69–82 | Article