Projects

My research focuses primarily on language, body and object in social interaction.  

Interculturality in action

Interculturality— the conversationalists' orientations to self and others are from different lingua-cultural backgrounds—  has captured my interest ever since I studied one of Shakespeare’s great works, Othello when I was an undergraduate. As a part of my PhD project (at Chiba University where I obtained PhD), I have examined interculturality in ordinary, unscripted, face-to-face interactions.  This project investigates procedures for making  interculturality relevant and using  interculturality  as a resource for various social actions and activities. 

• • Interculturality as an interactional achievement: Doubting others’ nationality and accounting for the doubt.  (Published in JIIC)

  • Notes on analysing intercultural interaction (Report; written in Japanese)

and others

Organisation of instruction

This project examines the organisation of instruction in the talk in interaction to elucidate (1) our mundane notion of instruction and (2) how instructions are recognisably achieved.  Fields are mainly ordinary conversations, multilingual interactions, lessons for the guitar and Japanese calligraphy, workplaces, museums, second language classrooms, adult-child interactions, and the like. 

• • Post-other-correction repeat: Aspects of a third-position action in correction sequences. (published in JoP)

  • Doing reflecting: Embodied solitary confirmation of instructed enactment.  (published in Discourse Studies)

  • Ways of the Brush in Japanese Calligraphy Art Lessons (published as a chapter in a collection)

  • Rule-formulation and assessment in instruction sequence in ordinary second language interaction.  (Conference presentation)

and others

Writing and drawing in interaction

Writing and drawing are ubiquitous in our lifeworld. Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies have elucidated the accountability of written texts and drawn objects in particular contexts. However, writing/drawing acts that appear in ordinary interactions are still embryonic in ethnomethodological and conversation-analytic research regarding what actions they constitute. This project investigates how writing and drawing are used for constituent properties for social actions in interaction.  

• • Ways of the Brush in Japanese Calligraphy Art Lessons 

  • Multisensoriality in action: Accomplishing social action in combination with utterances and writing/drawing. (Conference presentation)

  • An organisation of writing and drawing in interaction: multisensorial resources for action formation.  (Conference presentation)

  • Actions accomplished via the combination of verbal formulation and writing/drawing: multimodally-distributed action components (A chapter from my doctoral dissertation)

and others

Other projects in preparation...

• • A hybrid study of and for an Japanese calligraphy artist

  • Children's socialisation in everyday life

  • Interaction at kitchens in pubs

  • Interaction through and via technology

  • Turn taking in Shakespeare's dramas