Suzuki, Ryoko

写真a

Affiliation

Faculty of Economics （Hiyoshi）

Position

Professor

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  • 勉強することを楽しんでほしいとおもいます。

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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1995.12
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    1997.05

    シンガポール国立大学日本研究科 ティーチングフェロー（専任講師）

  • 1998.04
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    2012.03

    慶應義塾大学准教授(経済学部)

  • 2001.04
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    2002.03

    明治学院大学大学院

  • 2001.10
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    2002.03

    日本女子大学文学部英文学科

  • 2012.04
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    Present

    Professor

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 1999.05

    University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Linguistics, Linguistics

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

  • 1989.05

    University of Southern California, Department of General Linguistics, General Linguistics

    United States, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1987.03

    Japan Women's University, Graduate School, Division of Letters

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 1985.03

    Japan Women's University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English

    University, Graduated

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Dissertation, 1999.05

    Grammaticization in Japanese: A study of pragmatic particle-ization.

  • Master of Arts in General Lingistics, University of Southern California, Dissertation, 1989.05

  • Master of Arts, Japan Women's University, Dissertation, 1987.03

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Matters concerning Career Achievements 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2001.04
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    Present

    Study Skills Handbook

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese linguistics (Japanese Studies)

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • subjectification

  • conversation

  • grammaticalization

  • corpus of Japanese conversation

  • functional linguistics

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Research Themes 【 Display / hide 】

  • Development of quotatives and formal nouns in Japanese: the process of grammaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, 

    2005
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    2007

  • Corpus of Japanese Conversation based on Video-recorded data, 

    2002
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    2004

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  • Grammaticalization/subjectification observed in conversational discourse

    Interested in joint research with other research organizations (including universities, etc.)

  • Building corpus of Japanese conversation

    Interested in joint research with other research organizations (including universities, etc.)

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  • Exploration into a new understanding of 'zero anaphora' in Japanese everyday talk

    Ono T., Suzuki R., Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2020

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    This chapter examines the phenomenon called 'zero anaphora' in Japanese where syntactic arguments, thought to be projected by the predicates, are assumed to be deleted yet their referents are still tracked. A close inspection of representative narrative and interactive segments reveals that everyday talk, the primordial form of language, is carried out largely through more or less fixed expressions which are better analyzed as not projecting syntactic arguments. This suggests that deletion of arguments and tracking of referents might not be relevant to the grammar of Japanese everyday talk. We demonstrate this by discussing several facts including: (1) inserting what might be thought of as 'deleted' arguments in relevant examples makes them consistently more marked, awkward, or even unacceptable and (2) 'deleted' arguments are often associated with multiple equally possible referents, or no referents. The predominance of fixed expressions in our data suggests that they constitute the basic type of language in Japanese everyday talk. It is hoped that the current study is a contribution to building a model of grammar which captures this very characteristic of everyday talk where (semi-) fixed structure continuously emerges.

  • Subordination in Conversation

    Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011

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  • Verb repetition as a template for reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk

    Suzuki R., Ono T., Daiju S.

    Journal of Japanese Linguistics （Journal of Japanese Linguistics)  39 （ 1 ） 105 - 124 2023.05

    Single Work

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    A systematic investigation into the first large scale Japanese conversation corpus reveals that repeated verbs (RVs) occurring in the response position tend to involve frequently used verbs such as aru 'to exist' and chigau 'to differ' (e.g., aru aru aru). Further, longer RVs, those involving more repetition, are even more likely to occur with frequent verbs. In RVs, we find the verb having lost some of its lexical meaning and phonological substance (e.g., chigau > chiga). RVs in fact behave more like pragmatic particles functioning as reactive tokens, i.e., short responses interjected by non-main speakers. RVs as reactive tokens are most clearly observed when they are used together with standard reactive tokens such as hai hai hai hai 'yes, yes, yes, yes', so(o) so(o) so(o) 'yes, yes, yes', and (i)ya (i)ya (i)ya 'no, no, no', which also exhibit repetition and phonological reduction. Verb repetition is thus better understood as a template to turn verbs into reactive tokens.

  • Establishing a pseudo-cleft construction in Japanese: A perspective from everyday conversation

    Ono T., Suzuki R.

    Lingua （Lingua)  284 2023.03

    Single Work,  ISSN  00243841

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    It has been well established that Japanese has one type of cleft construction. This understanding was reached mostly through the examination of single Japanese sentences, constructed based on (pseudo-)cleft examples in English. We identify another type of cleft in Japanese based on the examination of everyday conversation data. This construction can be aptly considered a pseudo-cleft as it involves the interrogative pronoun nani ‘what’. Both structurally and functionally, it behaves similarly to pseudo-clefts in several other languages and to the Japanese traditional cleft, as characterized in recent conversation-based studies.

  • Creativity in compliment responses in Japanese everyday talk

    Suzuki R.

    East Asian Pragmatics （East Asian Pragmatics)  7 （ 3 ） 365 - 394 2022

    Single Work

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    This article explores how participants respond to compliments in Japanese everyday interactions. Even though compliments and responses (C-R) make a well-established format that contains a relatively high degree of fixedness and social and temporal restrictions, examinations of video-recorded Japanese conversation data show that a compliment recipient (Rt) handles a compliment delivered by a compliment giver (Gv) in a range of creative uses of language and the body. Focusing on negative responses that often start with iyaiya "no no", we show that, in addition to formulaic responses, an Rt may add creative comments and/or perform embodied actions to partially accept the compliment or shift the perspective of the compliment. In short, Japanese speakers' responses to compliments are much more creative and nuanced than previously assumed.

  • On the notion of unit in the study of human languages

    Ono T., Laury R., Suzuki R.

    Studies in Language （Studies in Language)  43 （ 2 ） 245 - 253 2019.11

    ISSN  03784177

  • Questioning the clause as a crosslinguistic unit in grammar and interaction

    Laury R., Ono T., Suzuki R.

    Studies in Language （Studies in Language)  43 （ 2 ） 364 - 401 2019.11

    Single Work,  ISSN  03784177

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    © John Benjamins Publishing Company This paper focuses on 'clause', a celebrated structural unit in linguistics, by comparing Finnish and Japanese, two languages which are genetically, typologically, and areally distinct from each other and from English, the language on the basis of which this structural unit has been most typically discussed. We first examine how structural units including the clause have been discussed in the literature on Finnish and Japanese. We will then examine the reality of the clause in everyday talk in these languages quantitatively and qualitatively; in our qualitative analysis, we focus in particular on what units are oriented to by conversational participants. The current study suggests that the degree of grammaticization of the clause varies crosslinguistically and questions the central theoretical status accorded to this structural unit.

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  • Interactional profile of causal kara-clause in Japanese conversation: Because the ‘main’ clause is there or not

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    International Pragmatics Conference (Melbourne, Australia) , 

    2009.07
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    Oral presentation (general), International Pragmatics Association

  • 「会話における引用と提題の関係－『って』構文の分析」

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    エスノメソドロジー・会話分析研究会 2007年度研究会大会 (明治学院大学白金キャンパス) , 

    2007.09
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    Oral presentation (invited, special), Japanese Association for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

  • Concessive Meaning Associated with Quotative Forms in Japanese

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    The 8th Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (Seikei University, Tokyo) , 

    2007.09
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    Oral presentation (general), The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association

  • It was not complex at the beginning - approaching to 'reanalysis' in Japanese conversation

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    10th International Pragmatics Conference (Goteborg, Sweden) , 

    2007.07
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    Oral presentation (general), International Pragmatics Association

  • The use of morphemes as pragmatic particles and complementizers in Finnish and Japanese -- a crosslinguistic comparison

    LAURY RITVASUZUKI RYOKO

    The Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG4) (University of Tokyo) , 

    2006.09
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    Poster presentation, University of Tokyo

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  • Formulaicity in Everyday Interaction

    2017.07
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    2021.03

    MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Principal investigator

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    2020年度に引き続き、新型コロナウィルス感染症の深刻な影響を受け、研究会・学会発表・シンポジウムはすべてオンラインで行った。
    （１）5月15日に研究会を行い、今年度を仕上げの年度と位置付け計画を立てた。Journal of Japanese Linguistics（De Gruyter社）という学術論文の特集号の完成に向けて、個々の論文を仕上げるために全員で意見交換の機会を持った。2022年度3月にはシンポジウムを行うことも確認した。
    （２）８月９日・１０日には、論文執筆のための中間発表会を行い、お互いのデータと分析について議論した。
    （３）２月１９日に再度研究会を開催し、３月９日のシンポジウム発表に向けて予行演習を行い当日の手順を確認した。
    （４）３月９日に国際シンポジウム（International Symposium on Formulaicity in Interactional Discourse 2022）を催行した。招待発表２本　（①Sandra Thompson教授, Barbara Fox教授, Trine Heinemann氏　共同発表　②Hongyin Tao教授）、そして午後には当科研のメンバーがJJL論文集に寄稿した研究の一部を紹介する形式をとった。オンラインで100名近くが登録し、当日も午前は100名、午後も参加は6-70名だった。
    （５）JJLの論文集の原稿は2022年3月末の時点で大方整っており、編集チームが最終チェックを行っている。
    オンラインでの研究活動にもだいぶ慣れることができ、2021年3月に引き続き、2022年3月にも、海外の著名な研究者をオンラインでお招きして、相互行為における定型性に関するシンポジウムを催行することができた。研究会に関しても年3回開催できた。集大成と位置付けて準備してきたJournal of Japanese Linguistics特集号として出版予定の論文集についても、順調に原稿の提出・査読・修正のプロセスを辿っている。
    Journal of Japanese Linguistics （De Gruyter）の特集号として、日本語の相互行為における定型表現という論文集の原稿を編集チーム（土屋、柴﨑、大野、鈴木）が取り纏め、提出予定である（６月）。
    2022年度の活動予定として、引き続き各メンバーの強みを生かした定型表現研究を続け、データを見ながら議論する機会を年2～3回設定する。そして、定型性を出発点とした文法研究、相互行為データの分析に興味を持つ研究者を増やし、研究のすそ野を広げる機会としたい。具体的には「話しことばの言語学ワークショップ」という研究会と共催で研究会合を開き、国際シンポジウム・海外の学術誌での論文刊行に続き、当科研の成果を国内の若手研究者に還元したい。

  • The question of units in language and interaction

    2014.09
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    2016.08

    JSPS and AF, Bilateral Joint Research Projects, Ryoko Suzuki, Commissioned ｒesearch, Principal investigator

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    we investigate conversations in genetically distinct languages to see whether, or to what degree, linguistically defined units are in fact relevant to conversationalists.

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    http://blogs.helsinki.fi/the-units-project/
    (プロジェクトウェブサイト＠ヘルシンキ大学）

  • Development of German, English and Japanese Discourse Markers from the Perspective of Historical Pragmatics

    2006
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    2007

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, TAKADA Hiroyuki, SUZUKI Ryoko, ONODERA Noriko, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No Setting

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    As linguistic materials for analysing the historical conversations, Takada took German-English and German-French conversation textbooks in the half of the 19th century. From the example sentences (self-introduction, travels, theatergoing, sickness etc.) in the these textbooks, we find particles, address forms and elliptical sentences which give the conversations certain grade of orality. In these conversation textbooks, we can also observe linguistic rituals for various situations (thanking, making requests, complementing and stating objections) that are different from these of today. Focusing on Japanese, Suzuki developed her research on the historical on the change of the quotative particle tte. The conversational data were obtained from novels published in the Edo, Meiji, early Showa and the present, as well as from recorded material. Tte has undergone change from a quotative to a discourse marker expressing the speaker's subjectivity. Also crucial for our analysis is the constructional change involving the positional shift from an utterance-internal particle to the utterance-initial discourse marker. Suzuki plans to continue her analysis on the rise of the concessive function in quotative forms, an interesting and plausible change not previously documented in other languages. Onodera contributed the paper, originally given at the first workshop on Historical Pragmatics in Japan(in December, 2005: "Historical Pragmatics-Possibilities and Difficulties"), to Studies in Pragmatics, published by the Pragmatics Society of Japan. Onodera and Suzuki co-edited the special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity. In this issue, Onodera published her paper "Interplay of (inter) subjectivity and social norm", exchanging ideas and opinions with many researchers inside and outside Japan, including Dr. E. Traugott and Dr. A. Jucker, during the writing process.

  • The Process of Diachronic Change of Quotative Particles and Formal Nouns in Japanese : Grammaticalization, Subjectification and Lntersubjectification

    2005
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    2007

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, SUZUKI Ryoko, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No Setting

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    The goal of this study was to investigate the process of diachronic change of morphemes which frequently occur in conversational language (including old texts reflecting conversational language of that time), while referring to the concepts of "grammaticalization," "subjectification" and "intersubjectification. " The main target of analysis includes quotative particles (especially tte) and formal nouns (especially wake). I investigated how changes in meaning, function, and surrounding constructions occurred, while also presenting thoughts about the reasons and directions of these changes. The diachronic data includes the documentations of conversational language from the Edo period through present-day Japanese, with the tokens grouped according to time periods. This grant enabled me to create a database, containing information on morphological and structural environments and semantics and discourse functions of all the tokens. Furthermore, I presented the results in conferences and journals, both in Japan and overseas, in English and Japanese. Two panels at the International Pragmatics Conference (Italy in 2005, Sweden in 2007) were especially significant since I was able to make contributions both as a co-organizer and speaker. Here, as well as at many other conferences, I obtained useful feedback through interactions with scholars specializing in a variety of languages and themes. The conclusions of the 2005 panel have been published in the form of a book (Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 8.2), for which I acted as a co-editor and also a contributor. The papers from the 2007 panel are going to be published as a volume in a series called Studies in Discourse and Grammar (John Benjamins Publishing Company). I have started working as a contributor, as well as co-editor, for this volume.

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Works 【 Display / hide 】

  • ワークショップ開催

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    東京　（東京大学駒場キャンパス）, 

    2004.03
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    Other, Joint

  • 公開講演会開催/Michael Barlow「ParaConc:A concordance for parallel texts」

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    横浜　慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパス来往舎, 

    2002.07
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    Present
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    Other, Joint

  • フレーム意味論・構文的アプローチに基づくオンライン日本語語彙情報資源の構築（グループ⑧）：研究分担者。言語分析

    SUZUKI RYOKO

    横浜, 

    2000.04
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    2005.03
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    Other, Joint

  • 経済学部　英語共通授業

    SUZUKI RYOKO　NAGAI YOHKO

    横浜, 

    2000
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    Other, Joint

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    経済学部における英語共通授業（1999年4月よりカリキュラムに正式に導入されている「英語スタディスキルズ」となった）に関する報告

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • SPECIAL LECTURE OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2

    2024

  • SPECIAL LECTURE OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 1

    2024

  • ENGLISH SEMINAR (UPPER INTERMEDIATE)

    2024

  • ENGLISH (STUDY SKILLS)

    2024

  • SPECIAL LECTURE OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2

    2023

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • Study Skills

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Autumn Semester, Seminar

  • English Seminar

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Autumn Semester, Seminar, Within own ｆaculty

  • Study Skills

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Spring Semester, Seminar, Within own ｆaculty

  • 少人数セミナー「話しことばを言語学的に探究しよう」

    Keio University

    2014.04
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    2015.03
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    Spring Semester, Seminar, Within own ｆaculty

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • 「言語と人間」研究会, 

    2004.12
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    2005.12

  • International Pragmatics Association

    　

  • 日本言語学会

    　

  • 日本英語学会

    　

  • 社会言語科学会

    　

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