Yoshiko Matsumoto
Associate Professor, Japanese Language and Linguistics;
Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program
yoshikom@stanford.edu
Research Area:
Various semantic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of phenomena
in Japanese including pragmatics of complex noun phrases, reference,
honorifics, politeness theories, speech acts, bilingualism, and
the relation among language, gender and age. Questions of ideology
and identity reflected in teaching and learning Japanese as a second
language are another interest.
Selected Recent Publications (1996- ):
Book
Noun-Modifying Constructions in Japanese: A Frame Semantic Approach.
Studies in Language Companion Series 35. John Benjamins. 1997.
Articles
| “‘We’ll be dead by then!’ –
comical self-disclosure by elderly Japanese women’. The
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society. (to appear) |
| “Alternative Femininity and the Presentation of Self
in Japanese,” in Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology:
Cultural models and real people, (Studies in Language and
Gender Series) (eds.) Shigeko Okamoto and Janet (Shibamoto)
Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240-255. 2004c. |
| “The new (and improved?) language and place of women
in Japan,” in Language and Woman’s Place: Text
and Commentaries, by Robin T. Lakoff. Revised and expanded
edition (Studies in Language and Gender Series), (ed.) Mary
Bucholtz and. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 244-251. 2004b. |
| “Kizuki to sentaku: Shakai-gengogakuteki nooryoku
no yoosei o mezasu nihongo-kyooiku no igi” (Awareness
and Choice: Implications of Japanese language instruction aiming
to cultivate learners’ sociolinguistic competence) (with
T. Shimizu, H. Okano Lipton, and M. Okubo Lowdermilk). Gengogaku
to Nihongo Kyooiku - Jitsuyooteki Gengo Kenkyuu no Koochiku
o Mezashite 3 (Linguistics and Japanese Language Education:
Toward Practical Linguistics Research), (ed.) Masahiko Minami.
Tokyo: Kurosio Syuppan. 41-58. 2004a. |
“Reply to Pizziconi, Journal of Pragmatics
35. 1515-1521. 2003b. “The Construction of the Japanese
Language and Culture in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.”
(co-authored with Shigeko Okamoto). Japanese Language and
Literature. Vol. 37, Number 1. 27-48. 2003a. |
| “Gender Identity and the Presentation of Self in Japanese,”
2002. Gendered Practices in Language, (eds.) S. Benor,
M. Rose, D. Sharma, J. Sweetland, Q. Zhang. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications. 339-354. 2002. |
| “Extending Frame Semantics: Flexibility of Complex
Noun Phrase Constructions in Japanese,” Cognition in Language
Use: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference,
Vol. 1. Edited by Eniko Nemeth. Antwerp: Belgium. 256-266. 2001b. |
| “Tyotto: Speech act qualification in Japanese,”
in Japanese Language and Literature Vol. 35:1 (formerly
Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese).
1-16. 2001a. |
| “Japanese stylistic choices and ideologies across generations”,
in Language and Ideology: Selected Papers from the 6th International
Pragmatics Conference Vol. 1, (ed.) Jef Verschueren. Antwerp:
International Pragmatics Association. 352-364. 1999b. |
| “Sedai to kotoba no sentaku” (Generation
and choice of language use), in Gengogaku to Nihongo Kyooiku
- Jitsuyooteki Gengo Kenkyuu no Koochiku o Mezashite (Linguistics
and Japanese Language Education: Toward Practical Linguistics
Research), (ed.) Yukiko Sasaki Alam. Tokyo: Kurosio Syuppan.
33-48. 1999a. |
| “The complementizer toyuu in Japanese”,
in Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 7, (ed.) Noriko
Akatsuka. Center for the Study of Language and Information.
243-255. 1998. |
| “Preface” for the Special Issue on Japanese Pragmatics,
in Journal of Pragmatics 28: 6. 659-660. 1997b. |
| “The rise and fall of Japanese nonsubject honorifics:
The case of ‘o-Verb-suru’”, in Journal
of Pragmatics 28: 6. 719-740. 1997a. |
| “Does less feminine speech in Japanese mean less femininity?”,
in Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth
Berkeley Women and Language Conference. 1996. 455-467.
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| “Interaction of Factors in Construal: Japanese Relative
Clauses”, in Grammatical Constructions: their form
and meaning, (eds.) Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson.
Oxford University Press. 103-124. 1996. |
Journal Special Issue
Journal of Pragmatics 28:6 . (Invited Editor) A special
issue on Japanese pragmatics. December, 1997.
Courses Taught:
JAPANGEN N71: Language and Gender in Japan: Myths and Reality (Freshman
Seminar)
JAPANLNG 211-213: Advanced Modern Japanese
JAPANLIT 157: Points in Japanese Grammar
JAPANLIT 117/217: The Structure of Japanese
JAPANLIT 281: Japanese Pragmatics
JAPANLIT 289: Diversity in Japanese Language: Regional Dialects
and their Images
JAPANLIT 291:Readings in Japanese Linguistics
JAPANLIT 381: Topics in Japanese Discourse and Pragmatics
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