Lab Meetings
Upcoming Meeting
2021
Previous Meetings
Dec 9
Yoshi Ono
thesis preparation
Oct 7
Dry run for the 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Kerry Sluchinski
Im/politeness variations in digital Japanese-Korean comfort women discourses
Sept 21
Data Session (Xinlei Yang)
Reading Session
Represented speech (By Yoko Hasegawa)
Sept 14
Progress Reports (Keisuke Harada and Xinlei Yang)
Aug 10
Reading Session
Using plain forms but still being polite: Speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk (by Yukiko Isaka)
The Unspecified Use of Demonstrative are in Japanese Everyday Talk (by Saori Daiju)
July 27
Data Session (Xinlei Yang)
July 20
Reading Session
Quotatives : New Trends and Sociolinguistic Implications (by Isabelle Buchstaller)
July 6
Reading Session
Quotation in Indigenised and Learner English (by Julia Davydova)
June 23
Dry runs for the 17th International Pragmatics Conference
Xiaoyun Wang
Eliciting student collaborative production through multimodal resources in Chinese-as-a-Second-Language Classrooms
Kerry Sluchinski
A comparative discursive pragmatic approach to third person referential forms in digital Korean and Japanese Comfort Women
discourses
June 22
Reading Session
The Validity of General L2 Proficiency Tests as Oral Proficiency Measures: A Japanese Learner Corpus Based Study (by Maki
Hirotani, Kazumi Matsumoto and Atsushi Fukada)
June 15
Reading Session
Yooji no daini gengo to shite no nihongo kakutoku to 'no' no kajoo seisei (by Tomohiko Shirahata)
June 8
Data Sessions (Keisuke Harada and Xinlei Yang)
June 1
Data Sessions (Keisuke Harada and Kerry Sluchinski)
Background reading: The stance triangle (by John Du Bois)
May 25
Reading Session
A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation (by Ryoko Suzuki)
May 18
Reading Session
Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction, chapter 24 (by Yoko Hasegawa)
May 11
Graduate Colloquium Review Session
April 29
Xinlei Yang
Japanese clause combining forms: How do native speakers and Mandarin L1 learners combing clauses?
Keisuke Harada
Japanese Quotative Particles to and tte
March 23
Zixuan Song
Collaborative Construction of Turn Constructional Units in Mandarin Conversation
March 2
Yoshi Ono
Toward understanding the language of Japanese everyday talk: Inconspicuous yet pervasive formulaicity
Jan 27
Cheer Wu
Directives in Heritage Mandarin Families
2020
Dec 3
Xinlei Yang
Misuse and overuse of Japanese no
Keisuke Harada
Japanese “te” in Suspended Clauses by Chinese Speakers
Nov 26
Kerry Sluchinski
Japanese-Korean Crosslinguistic Discourse Study Introduction
Nov 5
Minako Noda
My M.A. thesis and life as a graduate student
Oct 15
Xiaoyun Wang
My M.A. study, thesis, and papers
Feb 19
Minako Noda
Dry run for the 35th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ)
Feb 10
Chiho Ogawa and Tsuyoshi Ono
Dry run for Brown Bag Talk
Jan 29
Shui Li, Minako Noda, Xiaoyun Wan and Cheer Wu
Dry run for International Colloquium on Conversation Analysis in East Asian Languages
2019
Oct 28
Minako Noda
How the Japanese 'Contrastive' Marker kedo is Used in Everyday Conversation
Kerry Sluchinski
Referential Forms in Digital Chinese LGBTQ Discourses: Animate "It" and the Genderless Comrade
Xiaoyun Wan
The Interactional Functions of Teacher-initiated Teasing in Second Language Classrooms
Aug 29
Minako Noda
Functions of the Japanese 'Contrastive' Marker kedo in Everyday Conversation
Chiho Ogawa
Language Vitality of Ikema: May-June 2019 Field Research Report
Aug 12
Reading Session
Japanese Negotiation through Emerging Final Particles in Everyday Talk (by Ono, Thompson, and Sasaki)
July 26
Tsuyoshi Ono and Saori Daiju
A study of Japanese question words in specifying and telling questions: nani and post-positional grammatical particles
Yue Guan and Fang Di
Final-positioned conjunctions in Mandarin conversation
May 16
Kerry Sluchinski , Guan Yue and Zixuan Song
Dry run for IPrA 2019
April 5
Minako Noda
Indexes of Polite and Plain Forms -The case of teacher talk in JFL classroom-
Chiho Ogawa
Language Vitality of Ikema Dialect, Miyako Ryukyuan
2018
Dec 5
Minako Noda
Japanese Native Speakers' Backchanneling towards Native Speakers and Leaners
Chiho Ogawa
Is a soo ‘oh, is that so?’ a New Reactive Token?
Thomas Saunders
Play by Play and Color Commentary - An Analysis of the Sports Broadcasting Genre-
Oct 19
Xiaoyun Wang
Suoyi ‘so’: Prefacing the Display of Understanding in Mandarin Conversation
Zixuan Song
Collaborative Construction of a Syntax-in-Progress in Mandarin Chinese
Stefana Vukadinovich
Interactional Functions of Imperative Turns in Mandarin Conversation
Oct 5
Kanza Tariq
Conjugating i-adjectives as na-adjectives in Internet Discourse
July 6
Saori Daiju and Tsuyoshi Ono
Structure meets the ‘beginning’ in Japanese everyday interaction: A study of nani ‘what’ and other question words
Xiaoyun Wang
Suoyi ‘so’ as a device for continuation & resumption in Mandarin Conversation
February 2
Saori Daiju
Grammar in Japanese question-response sequence: A study of nani ‘what’ in specifying and telling questions
Stefana Vukadinovich
Imperative sentences in Mandarin conversation
Xiaoyun Wang
Suoyi ‘so’ as a part of account in Mandarin conversation
2017
December 1
Xiaoting Li
Data session on Chinese clicks
November 10
Reading Session
The indexical ground of deictic reference (by William F. Hanks)
November 2
Ross Krekoski
Discussion with graduate students
October 20
Research Orientation Session
August 4
Xiaoyun Wang
Data session on Chinese
Kanza Tariq
“Fuzzy” boundaries between the two kinds of Japanese adjectives
July 6
Tsuyoshi Ono
What can Japanese conversation tell us about ‘NP’ and ‘noun’?
Xiaoting Li
Touching and Joking— The role of interpersonal touch in conversational joking in Mandarin interaction
June 29
Yaqiong Liu and Xiaoting Li
Functions of Adj./V.+(de) lai construction in Shanghai Wu conversation
Saori Daiju
Distal demonstrative are ‘that’ for unspecified referents in Japanese everyday talk
June 2
Yaqiong Liu
Data session on Chinese
May 8
Xiaoting Li
Orchestrating talk, touch, gaze and blinking in achieving intersubjectivity
Apr 21
Reading Session
People, Things and Stuff: General Nouns in Spoken Mandarin (by Yung-O Biq)
Mar 31
Reading Session
Discourse within a sentence: An exploration of postpositions in Japanese as an interactional resource (by Makoto Hayashi)
Mar 10
Research Orientation Session
2016
Oct 25
Tetsuya Miyaguchi
V na (sa) soo da: A survey-based study of evidential 'variants' in Japanese
Kerry Sluchinski
The Usage of Third-Person Pronoun ta in Chinese Social Media
April 28
Honoka Takei
Multiple direct object markers in Miyako Ryukyuan: A discourse based approach
2015
Nov 27
Gaisha Oralova
Chinese Response Tokens
Kerry Sluchinski
The Usage of Homophonic Graphemes in Chinese Social Media: Third-Person Pronoun ta
Nov 12
Yoichi Mukai
Rhythm of read and spontaneous speech in Japanese and English
Oct 19
Catherine Ford, Honoka Takei, and Yoshi Ono
An introduction to language and culture of Okinawa: Miyako Ryukyuan
2014
May-June
Reading Session
Minami Ryukyu Miyakogo Ikema hoogen no bunpoo (Kyoto University dissertation by Yuka Hayashi)
May 7
Reading Session
Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa (by Patrick Heinrich)
Mar 27
Liang Tao and Xiaoting Li
Data sessions
Mar 17
Yoshi Ono
Research workshop/grad program orientation
Jan 17
Emma Tang
Study of Chinese Internet Homophones from the Systemic Functional Perspective
Yoshi Ono
Finding Grammar in Use
Xiaoting Li
Multimodality in Chinese Interaction
2013
Nov 26
Xiaoting Li
Interactional Functions of Adverbial Construction yinwei in Mandarin Face-to-Face Conversation
Oct 22
Honoka Takei and Yoshi Ono
The Ikema Project: Documenting Songs for Children
Sep 17
Peng Qiu
Japanese-Based Creole Spoken in Taiwan
Jun 7
Jie Yang
Response Token dui dui dui in Mandarin Conversation
May 17
Reading Session
May 2
Barbara Carter
The Use of Person Reference Terms by Japanese Gay Men