Kaoru Hayano
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kaoru Hayano plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 9. Post-confirmation modifications: Trajectories of un -initiated responses to polar questions in Japanese Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 272–300 | Chapter
It has long been acknowledged that, in response to polar questions, disagreements are normatively delayed with agreements such that they are presented as modifications or exceptions rather than outright disagreements. While there is a large body of literature on how the initial element in the… read more
2021 Chapter 8. When OKAY is repeated: Closing the talk so far in Korean and Japanese conversations OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 235–265 | Chapter
This chapter explores the use of the repetition of OKAY in a third position and in a transitional phase between activities in Korean and Japanese conversations. We have identified that (1) the duplicated OKAY, by being placed either in the middle of the other speaker’s turn or after a gap, is… read more
2018 Chapter 7. A-prefaced responses to inquiry in Japanese Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages, Heritage, John and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 193–224 | Chapter
This study explores the stances communicated by two turn-initial particles in Japanese, a and eh, when they are used to preface responses to inquiry. The particle a comes close in its usage to oh in English and is often used to acknowledge the receipt of new and/or unexpected information. Eh is… read more