論文 - 鈴木　亮子

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年05月

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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.

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

Ono T., Suzuki R.

Lingua （Lingua）  284 2023年03月

単著,  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.

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Creativity in compliment responses in Japanese everyday talk

Suzuki R.

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

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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.

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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年11月

ISSN  03784177

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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年11月

単著,  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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The use of frequent verbs as reactive tokens in Japanese everyday talk: Formulaicity, florescence, and grammaticization

Ono T., Suzuki R.

Journal of Pragmatics （Journal of Pragmatics）  123   209 - 219 2018年01月

単著,  ISSN  03782166

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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. A number of recent studies (Wray, 2008; Corrigan et al., 2009; Bybee, 2010; Tanabe et al., 2014) have highlighted the formulaic nature of actual language use. The present paper is part of our larger project which examines the mechanism of formulaicity observed in Japanese conversation and seeks its implications for the nature of human language in general. Japanese is known for its extensive ‘backchanneling’ behavior (e.g., Maynard, 1986, 1987; Clancy et al., 1996; Iwasaki, 1997; Nagata, 2004; Ohama, 2006) and presents a case of florescence (Chafe, 2000) by boasting an extensive repertoire of diverse expressions used for such a purpose. We report on a previously unrecognized type of expression forming part of the group: frequently used verbs with general meanings such as aru ‘exist’ iru ‘exist’ yaru ‘do’ kuru ‘come’ and wakaru ‘understand’ appear to be grammaticized as reactive tokens. We will examine these formulas in context paying attention to their prosody, structure, semantics, and function. Specifically, we find these verbs standing on their own or in a reduplicated form as a response to the prior talk. Often there is no referent in the context that can be understood as the argument of the verbs. These characteristics suggest their status as reactive tokens.

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Beyond dichotomies and continua?: an interactional approach to the grammar of clause combining in Japanese

Suzuki R., Thompson S.A.

Language Sciences （Language Sciences）  58   35 - 50 2016年11月

単著,  ISSN  03880001

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The category of ‘adverbial clause’ seems to be relatively well-justified for understanding the grammar of the everyday spoken languages of Europe, although fuzzy boundaries are generally recognized. In this paper, we explore whether the category ‘adverbial clause’ is useful for understanding conversational Japanese by considering the behavior of the three most frequent clause connectors, kara ‘because/so’, kedo ‘but’, and -tara ‘if’. Noting the reliance of this category on a biclausal ‘main’ vs. ‘dependent’ distinction, we consider four frequent patterns in our data which challenge the advisability of positing ‘adverbial clause’ for the grammar of this language: a) the ‘main’ clause is structurally ‘less than’ a main clause; b) the ‘main clause’ is missing; c) the alleged ‘adverbial clause’ or the alleged ‘main clause’, or the combination, consists of fixed expressions; d) the clause combination typically consists of more than two clauses. We conclude that the notion of ‘adverbial clause’ needs to be augmented with accounts of these robust clause combining patterns.

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Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

Thompson S.A., Suzuki R.

Discourse Studies （Discourse Studies）  16 （ 6 ） 816 - 846 2014年12月

単著,  ISSN  14614456

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In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. In this article we examine the role of gaze in reenactments in conversations from Japanese and American English. Following Goodwin in viewing a reenacted story as ‘a multi-modal, multi-party field of activity’, we show how tellers’ and recipients’ gaze during reenactments is deployed to achieve specific interactional ends. We argue that there are two layers of activities involved in doing reenacting – a) the habitat of the original event; b) the habitat of the reenacting event, including the dynamics of gaining appreciative recipiency – and show how they are interwoven in the joint production of a reenactment.

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A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation. Subordination in Conversation, ed by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki.

SUZUKI RYOKO

Subordination in Conversation. （Amsterdam: John Benjamins.）     149–164 2011年

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著

Concessive meaning associated with quotative forms in Japanese

鈴木 亮子

日本認知言語学会論文集　第8巻 （日本認知言語学会）  2008年

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著

Quoting and topic-marking:Some observations on the quotative tte construction in Japanese

鈴木 亮子

Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining:The multifunctionality of conjunctions （Philadelphia: John Benjamins）     231-246 2008年

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著

Concessive Meaning Associated with Quotative Forms in Japanese

鈴木 亮子

日本認知言語学会第8回大会予稿集 （日本認知言語学会）     112-115 2007年09月

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著, 査読有り

Noriko Onodera, Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic Discourse Analysis

鈴木 亮子

Language in Society 36 （ 2 ） 299-302 2007年04月

研究論文（学術雑誌）, 単著, 査読有り

他人の発話を引用する形式－話し言葉の通時的分析

鈴木 亮子

月刊　言語 （大修館書店）  36 （ 3」 ） 36－43 2007年03月

研究論文（学術雑誌）, 単著,  ISSN  0287-1696

Historical changes in Japanese: With special focus on subjectivity and intersubjectivity: Introduction

小野寺　典子鈴木 亮子

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8 （ 2 ） 153-170 2007年

研究論文（学術雑誌）, 共著, 査読有り,  ISSN  1566-5852

(Inter) subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversation: Local change, utterance-ness and verb-ness

鈴木 亮子

Journal of Historical Pragmatics （Journal of Historical Pragmatics）  8 （ 2 ） 207-238 - 237 2007年

研究論文（学術雑誌）, 単著, 査読有り,  ISSN  1566-5852

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This article discusses the process of (inter)subjectification in grammatical constructions including tte, which is known as the quotative complementizer in present-day Japanese. About 170 instances of tte constructions that appeared in the conversational data spanning over 200 years are analyzed, focusing on three major types of constructions: the quotative tte construction, the topic-introducing construction, and the constructions with tte as utterance-final pragmatic particles. There are morphosyntactic changes concomitant to the process of (inter)subjectification; for example, the quality of the "quoted" element preceding tte has been extended to include less utterance-like materials. In addition, the "main" verb iu 'say' that is associated with the quotative tte has lost its verbal characteristics in the topic construction and disappears in the utterance-final particle construction. Subjectification, as well as intersubjectification, is observed locally in each position: after the quoted element, after the topic noun, and at the utterance-final position. © John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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How does 'reason' become less and less reasonable? Pragmatics of the utterance-final wake in conversational discourse

鈴木 亮子

Emotive Communication in Japanese    35-52 2006年

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著, 査読有り

Functional cycle: Concessivity across some quotative forms in Japanese

鈴木 亮子

Linguistics Colloquium （Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara）  2005年03月

単著

"Active recruitment" of the new faces: Dynamicity of pragmatics at the untterance-final position in Japanese

鈴木 亮子

8th International Pragmatics Conference 2003年07月

研究論文（研究会，シンポジウム資料等）, 単著, 査読有り

文法化

鈴木 亮子

応用言語学事典 （東京　研究社）     451-453 2003年04月

研究論文（その他学術会議資料等）, 単著