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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.

Edited Book
Diversity and Universals in Language: The Consequences of Variation,   co-editor with D. Oshima, O. Robinson and P. Sells. CSLI Publications. 2007.

 

Articles

2009  “Dealing with Changes – Humorous Self-Disclosure by Elderly Japanese Women,” Ageing & Society 29, 6. Special issue edited by Justine Coupland. 929-952.

2009   “Pragmatics of Performative Honorifics in Subordinate Clauses”, in Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, A Festschrift, (Studies in Pragmatics v. 6) (eds.) Ken turner and Bruce Fraser.  Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

2009  “Forward”, Face Communication and Social Interaction, (eds.) Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca and Michael Haugh. London: Equinox Publishing Ltd. xi-xii.

2008   “Tuning Styles and Personae”, in Japanese Speech Style Shift (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 180) (eds.) Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.  213-228.

2008   “Discourse of the elderly from the speaker’s point of view”,  Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives (eds.) Mori, Junko and Amy S. Ohta. Continuum International Publishing Group. 188-210. 2008b.

2008 “Young Women in the Meiji Period as Linguistic Trendsetters” (co-authored with Mariko Bohn), Journal of Language and Gender Vol. 2 (1). 9-42.

2008 “Variations in Japanese honorification -- deviations or a change in the making?,” Constructional Re-organization (Constructional Approaches to Language Series 5), (ed.) Jaakko Leino.  John Benjamins. 89-104. 2008a.

2007  “Interaction of Multiple Factors in Relative Clause Construal and Acquisition.” Commentary. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 29. 367-374.

2007  “Dealing with changes -- Discourse of elderly Japanese women”, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15, (eds.) Naomi H. McGloin, et al.  CSLI Publication. 93-107. 2007c.

2007 “Integrating frames:  Complex noun phrase constructions in Japanese, ” Aspects of Linguistics: In Honor of Noriko Akatsuka (Gengogaku  no Syosoo: Akatsuka Noriko Kyoozyu Kinen Ronbunsyuu), (eds.) Susumu Kuno, Seiichi Makino and Susan Strauss. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. 131-154. 2007b.

2007  “Kaiwa no naka no iwayuru joseigo (Use of so-called women’s language in conversation),” Gengo (Language): Vol. 36 No.3. 62-69.
“‘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.(Eds.)M. Ettlinger, N. Fleisher, M. Park-Doob. Berkeley Linguistics Soci3ety. 268-297.
“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.
“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 235, 236: Academic Readings in Japanese I, II
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

Events:
PFIH Project Meeting at Stanford University, July 27-28, 2009