My research focuses primarily on language, body and object in social interaction.
Interculturality— where 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. I have examined interculturality in ordinary, unscripted, face-to-face interactions. This project investigates the procedures for making interculturality relevant and using it 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
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. The 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 (Book chapter)
Equivalence and embodiment: Instruction and imitating the instructed object [in Japanese] (Book chapter)
Invitation for participation: Interjection and accounts for interjection [in Japanese] (Book chapter)
and others
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 underexplored in ethnomethodological and conversation-analytic research regarding what actions they constitute. This project investigates how writing and drawing are used as constituent properties for social actions in interaction.
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
Techology is everywhere. It's all around us. We use technology everyday becau...hang on! What's technology?! Well, I don't give a concrete definition of technology but I examine interactions where people rely on artificial objects to pursue their interactional purposes, thereby investigating "what technology actually is," "what technology's unique possibilities for social actions," and "how we do things with technology."
Breaching and Robot Experiments: Continuing Harold Garfinkel’s Spirit of Experimentation (Book chapter)
Pilot test of the mutual assistance system using a wearable device for the elderly in WEB3.0 technology (Conference Paper)
Interacting with Wheelchair Mounted Navigator Robot (Conference Paper)
and others
Children's socialisation in everyday life
Turn taking in Shakespeare's dramas