Yoshiko Matsumoto

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

Journal

Book series

Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 15:1 (2024) vi, 213 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2024 Chapter 6. (Non)referentiality of silent reference in Japanese conversation: How and what are inferred(Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. and Ritva Laury (eds.), pp. 103–122 | Chapter
Japanese speakers carry out successful conversations in which arguments and adjuncts of predicates are not expressed. I call such unmentioned members of an event or state that can be inferred INFERABLES . Inferables present a range of interpretations from specific to more general… read more
Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton 2024 Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia: Introduction to the special issuePragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Review article
Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Harumi Maeda, Emily Yu Wan and Hsiao-Wen Liao 2024 On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal artPragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 104–121 | Article
To help older adults living with cognitive impairments to engage in positive social interactions and maintain verbal creativity, intergenerational small-group sessions of haiku creation and appreciation activity were conducted online during the pandemic. Haiku, a short 17-syllable form of poetry… read more
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2019 When being quotidian meets being ordinaryThe Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 269–294 | Chapter
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
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2018 Chapter 3. The form and meaning of the dangling mitaina construction in a network of constructionsPragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 75–98 | 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
Mori, Junko, Mutsuko Endo Hudson and Yoshiko Matsumoto 2018 IntroductionPragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Introduction
Comrie, Bernard, Peter Sells and Yoshiko Matsumoto 2017 ConclusionNoun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 331–337 | Article
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
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2017 General noun-modifying clause constructions in JapaneseNoun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells (eds.), pp. 23–43 | 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
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
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
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2013 Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions: The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructionsAdvances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 159–181 | 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
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
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2008 Tuning speech style and personaStyle Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 213–228 | Chapter
Matsumoto, Yoshiko 2008 5. Variations in Japanese honorification - deviations or a change in the making?Constructional Reorganization, Leino, Jaakko (ed.), pp. 89–104 | Article