Momoko Nakamura

List of John Benjamins publications in which Momoko Nakamura is involved.

Titles

Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context

Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura

Informality is essential in human interaction as it fulfills the basic communicative need to connect with others. When and how do speakers of Japanese construct informality within so-called “formal” contexts and why do they do so? By going beyond the previous studies on speech style in Japanese,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] 2027. vi, 273 pp. + index

Gender, Language and Ideology: A genealogy of Japanese women's language

Momoko Nakamura

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women’s language, that, to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language, and to account for why and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 58] 2014. xv, 253 pp.

Articles

Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura 2027 Chapter 1. Introduction Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Nakamura, Momoko 2027 Chapter 9. Vernacularizing Japanese live TV Olympic broadcasting: Norm negotiation, personalization, and sociolinguistic change Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 200–229 | Chapter

This chapter examines a Japanese live TV Olympic broadcast and explores how the speaker employs a vernacular form negotiating with the standard variety norm, what interactional effect vernacularization brings to the broadcast, and what sociolinguistic change is promoted by the vernacular usage.… read more

Nakamura, Momoko 2021 Constructing interrupting inquiries as cooperative interactions: Question-response- hai ‘yes’ sequences in Japanese interviews Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 167–192 | Chapter

This chapter examines how speakers manage the simultaneous occurrence of questioning and interruption. The data are 22 sequences consisting of an interviewer’s interrupting question, the interviewee’s response, and the interviewer’s hai ‘yes’, from 60-minute interviews with eight women. I… read more