Yoshiko Matsumoto

Yoshiko Matsumoto

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yoshiko Matsumoto plays a role.

Journal

Book series

Titles

Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture

Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 285] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Subjects Japanese linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Matsumoto, Yoshiko. 2019. When being quotidian meets being ordinary. The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 269–294
Building on previous studies of casual conversations by older Japanese women in which quotidian reframing was used as a strategy to present serious and extraordinary situations from the perspective of the quotidian (e.g. Matsumoto 2011), this chapter examines how reframing to the quotidian, i.e.… read more | Chapter
In recent years the use in Japanese of the prenominal form mitaina of the evidential expression, mitaida ‘(it) look(s) like,’ has been observed at the utterance final position with no noun following it. The pragmatic function of this apparently innovative construction has been described in terms of… read more | Chapter
Mori, Junko, Mutsuko Endo Hudson and Yoshiko Matsumoto. 2018. Introduction. Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 1–14
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Comrie, Bernard, Peter Sells and Yoshiko Matsumoto. 2017. Conclusion. Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 331–337
In this conclusion, we address three issues: a) the geographic extent of GNMCCs in Eurasia, including considerations of areal phenomena resulting from language contact; b) delimiting GNMCCs from other constructions, in particular those that in Japanese fall under GNMCCs; and c) structural… read more | Article
Instances of Japanese clausal modification of a noun illustrate that Japanese exhibits a single construction, the general noun-modifying clause construction (GNMCC), in which a clause in the finite form precedes the head noun. The GNMCC expresses extensive grammatical and semantic relations between… read more | Article
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Building on the seminal work on grammar and frames (e.g. Fillmore 1982), in addition to recent studies that apply a construction grammar approach to the description of genres (Antonopoulou & Nikiforidou 2011; Nikiforidou 2010b; Östman 2005) and spoken discourse (Fischer 2011; Fried & Östman 2005),… read more | Article
This paper illustrates the importance of context for grammar by examining discourse data of the nonsubject honorific construction o – Verb (stem) – suru.   Building upon previous studies that argued that non-subject honorifics are subject to a pragmatic condition of benefit transfer between the… read more | Article
Matsumoto, Yoshiko. 2013. Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions. Advances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 159–181
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in “interactional frames” (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs)… read more | Article
Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in “interactional frames” (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs)… read more | Article
Matsumoto, Yoshiko. 2008. Tuning speech style and persona. Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 213–228
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