Publications
Takano, Shoji. 2011. Judgments Concerning the Valence of Inter-Turn Silence Across Speakers of American English, Italian, and Japanese. Discourse Processes 48 (5) : 331–354.
Takano, Shoji. 2008. Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations. In : 285–328.
Takano, Shoji. 2005. Re-examining linguistic power: strategic uses of directives by professional Japanese women in positions of authority and leadership. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (5) : 633–666.