Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning  

This study explores the evolution of emotionality across small-group dynamics during an additional language (L+) classroom discussion at a Japanese university. Founded in analysis of a videorecording of Japanese students’ interactions in their L+ English, it examines the ways in which emotional togetherness arises through the actions of four learners. By employing a unique multimodal (pictorial) transcription and a narrative interpretation, the study evocatively captures how verbal and embodied cues collaboratively facilitate the emotional resonance of the group. The authors identify three primary mechanisms underpinning this shared emotionality: (1) the shift from English to the students’ native (i.e. Japanese) conversational style, marked by shorter, mutually-elaborative turns and increased aizuchi (backchanneling); (2) the instantiation of mutual transportable identities in the form of shared knowledge of popular culture, and; (3) the role of laughter in both expressing and confirming shared emotionality. While these factors appear to play a key role in the emergent outcome, the study clearly supports the need for more contextualized, dynamic research into the localized emergence and functions of group emotionality in additional language learning.

File： JPLL_SI_GroupDynamics(5)_Sampson&Machi.pdf

DOI： 10.52598/jpllsi/8/1/5

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Language：English   Publishing type：Part of collection (book)   Publisher：John Benjamins Publishing Company  

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This chapter explores cross-speaker repetition in Japanese conversations. It focuses on how interactants repeat each other’s utterances in a playful and mutually entertaining manner in five different ways, hence creating amusement along with a sense of ease and a bond. Cross-speaker repetition is often viewed negatively from Western perspectives for lacking in originality or uniqueness. To provide a new lens to reinterpret this practice, this study applies ba theory. In ba -oriented languages, interactants embed themselves in ba (space) and a state of non-separation between self and other emerges. By demonstrating how cross-speaker repetition connects utterances and speakers, this chapter reinforces the significance of playful repetition in having positive impacts on the atmosphere and interactants’ relationships in Japanese conversations.

File： clu.24.08mac.pdf

DOI： 10.1075/clu.24.08mac

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：John Benjamins Publishing Company  

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This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to speak using the honorific desu/masu markers. The analysis demonstrates that in such conversations, the kōhai sometimes drop the honorific markers while repeating the senpai’s utterances, thereby momentarily transcending the vertical boundary separating them from the senpai. Two types of plain form repetition are presented: (1) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s funny and/or questionable comments to savor the expressions, and (2) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s ideas, wishes or assessments to synchronize with the senpai. The analysis explicates how cross-speaker repetition allows the kōhai to drop the honorific markers in a way that is acceptable to the senpai. This study underscores the significance of the cross-speaker repetition device for creating harmonious relationships in Japanese.

File： prag.21063.mac (1).pdf

DOI： 10.1075/prag.21063.mac

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Language：English  

File： SSDIS Newsletter - July 2023.pdf

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Language：English  

File： The fun of repeating 241-270 (Machi).pdf

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Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

Venue：名古屋外国語大学 名駅キャンパス多目的ラボ  

File： 2026.3 名古屋外語大シンポジウム.pdf

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