Junko Saito
List of John Benjamins publications in which Junko Saito is involved.
2027 Chapter 5. The use of Standard and Kansai Japanese in business manners training camp: Style shifts and the reconfiguration of indexical fields Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 92–123 | Chapter
This chapter explores how an instructor at a Japanese business manners training camp utilizes Standard Japanese (SJ) desu/masu (honorific) forms, SJ plain (non-honorific) forms, and Kansai Japanese (KJ). The study focuses on how the instructor’s stancetaking and style-shifting express his… read more
2025 Translanguaging across Japanese and English: Linguistic normativities and indexical meanings Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Drawing on an indexical approach, this study explores practices and evaluations of translanguaging across Japanese and English in two datasets, one of audiorecorded naturally occurring meetings among Japanese employees at a global corporation and another of online commentary about… read more
2024 The discursive manifestation of normativities in coming-out-to-family discourses in Japanese social media Journal of Language and Sexuality 13:2, pp. 178–200 | Article
This study investigates the discursive manifestation of normativities and participants’ orientation to them for identity work in coming-out-to-family discourses in Japanese YouTube videoclips posted by self-identified gay men. The study focuses on how the participants – the YouTubers and their… read more
2012 Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace Pragmatics 22:4, pp. 697–719 | Article
This study qualitatively examines how male individuals in subordinate positions in a Japanese workplace construct institutional identities in superior-subordinate interactions in the workplace. The analysis demonstrates that the male subordinates’ use of the masu form (the addressee honorific… read more