Shoichi Iwasaki

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Shoichi Iwasaki plays a role.

Journal

General Editor: Katharina Haude and Nicole Kruspe

ISSN 0378-4177 | E-ISSN 1569-9978

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Shoichi Iwasaki

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 17] 2013. xxi, 383 pp.

Subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Shoichi Iwasaki

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 5] 2002. xx, 360 pp.

Subjects Japanese linguistics

Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse

Shoichi Iwasaki

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 2] 1993. xii, 152 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics

Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa

Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard

[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.

Subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

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Iwasaki, Shoichi and Parada Dechapratumwan 2022 Creating versatility in Thai demonstratives Studies in Language 46:3, pp. 517–558

Beyond their basic function to index exophoric and endophoric referents, Thai demonstratives have a host of pragmatic functions to encode concerns regarding discourse organization, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Based on a detailed analysis of demonstratives used in conversation, we attempt… read more | Article

Kawanishi, Yumiko and Shoichi Iwasaki 2018 Chapter 1. Reason-coding in Japanese: A Multiple Grammar perspective Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 17–48

This chapter examines how reasons are expressed in Japanese discourse, employing the Multiple Grammar (MG) Model proposed by Iwasaki (2015) as a theoretical foundation. It shows how the model can explain different ways in which reasons are expressed in conversation and newspaper editorials. This… read more | Chapter

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2015 Animacy and differential subject marking in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Studies in Language 39:3, pp. 754–778

Ikema is a dialect of the Miyako language of Ryukyu, Japan and is endangered. It is remotely related to Japanese, but unlike Japanese it shows a differential-subject marking based on the animacy feature of the subject noun. The pronoun and personal names are invariably marked by ga, while inanimate… read more | Article

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2014 Grammar of the internal expressive sentences in Japanese: Observations and explorations Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language, Kabata, Kaori and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 55–84

‘Internal expressive sentences’ such as a! itai ‘Oh, it hurts,’ or aa yokatta ‘Oh, I’m so happy!,’ reveal directly what the speaker perceives or senses internally, and contrast sharply with ‘descriptive sentences,’ such as taroo wa kuma o uchitometa ‘Taro shot the bear.’ This distinction has been… read more | Article

Iwasaki, Shoichi 2009 Time management formulaic expressions in English and Thai Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 589 ff.

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Iwasaki, Shoichi 2002 Proprioceptive-state expressions in Thai Studies in Language 26:1, pp. 33–66

While the structure consisting of a topic and a clausal comment, often referred to as the double-topic, double-subject, or double-nominative sentence, has been discussed in the literature, the internal constituent order within the comment has rarely been a target of study of linguistic typology.… read more | Article