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KOYAMA Wataru
 
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Affiliation*
College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication
Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Doctoral Program in Intercultural Communication
Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Master's Program in Intercultural Communication
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Professor
Degree
修士(MA) 博士(PhD) ( 博士:シカゴ大学(アメリカ合衆国イリノイ州) 修士:カリフォルニア大学サンフランシスコ校(アメリカ合衆国カリフォルニア州) )
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Research Theme*
  • 主に言語人類学や記号論の枠組みに基づき、語用論や社会言語学、文化人類学、社会学などの知見にも依拠しながら、コミュニケーションの問題にアプローチし、コミュニケーション論の観点から言語や社会、文化の研究を行なっている。近代や現代の社会文化的な様態と、近現代における言語やコミュニケーションの有り様や、それらについての考え方とが、どのように結びついているのか、特に、「近代化」や「グローバリゼーション」などと呼ばれる現象が、実際の社会文化や言語の有り様、そしてそれらについての捉え方や語られ方とどのように結びついているのかについて、コミュニケーション論を基軸に探究し、その詳細を審らかにすることを試みている。

  • Research Interests
  • 社会言語学

  • 言語人類学

  • Pragmatics

  • Linguistic anthropology

  • Linguistics

  • Campus Career*
    • 4 2009 - Present 
      College of Intercultural Communication   Department of Intercultural Communication   Professor
    • 4 2009 - Present 
      Graduate School of Intercultural Communication   Master's Program in Intercultural Communication   Professor
    • 4 2009 - Present 
      Graduate School of Intercultural Communication   Doctoral Program in Intercultural Communication   Professor
    • 4 2008 - 3 2009 
      College of Intercultural Communication   Department of Intercultural Communication   Associate Professor
    • 4 2007 - 3 2009 
      Associate Professor
    • 4 2007 - 3 2009 
      Graduate School of Intercultural Communication   Doctoral Program in Intercultural Communication   Associate Professor
    • 4 2007 - 3 2008 
      College of Arts   Department of Letters,Course in Philosophy and Creative Writing   Associate Professor
    • 4 2006 - 3 2007 
      College of Arts   Department of Letters,Course in Philosophy and Creative Writing   Associate Professor (as old post name)
    • 4 2006 - 3 2007 
      Associate Professor (as old post name)
    • 4 2006 - 3 2007 
      Graduate School of Intercultural Communication   Doctoral Program in Intercultural Communication   Associate Professor (as old post name)

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    Research Areas

    • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

    Research History

    • 4 2009 - Present 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Field of Study: Intercultural Communication   Professor

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    • 4 2009 - Present 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Field of Study: Intercultural Communication   Professor

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    • 4 2009 - Present 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication   Professor

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    • 4 2008 - 3 2009 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication   Associate Professor

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    • 4 2007 - 3 2008 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Arts Department of Letters, Course of Philosophy and Creative Writing   Associate Professor

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    • 4 2006 - 3 2007 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Arts Department of Letters, Course of Philosophy and Creative Writing   Associate Professor (as old post name)

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    • 4 2003 - 3 2006 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   Graduate School of Intercultural Communication

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    Education

    • - 3 2003 
      University of Chicago   Graduate School, Division of Humanities   Linguistics

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      Country: United States

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    • - 1 1991 
      San Francisco State University

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      Country: United States

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    Papers

    • Pragmatism

      International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology4   1618 - 1630   1 2021

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    • Performativity vs. indexicality Invited

      International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology4   1527 - 1531   1 2021

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    • メタコミュニケーション論の射程:メタ語用的フレームと社会言語科学の全体 Invited Peer-reviewed

      小山亘

      社会言語科学19 ( 1 ) 6 - 20   10 2016

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    • 記号/運動――文字、肖像、増殖、文化、その断片 Invited

      小山亘

      異文化コミュニケーション論集12   45 - 64   3 2014

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    • 国学と洋学 Invited

      小山亘

      異文化コミュニケーション事典   459 - 459   2013

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    • 記号論 Invited

      小山亘

      異文化コミュニケーション事典   269 - 270   2013

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    • 我と汝 Invited

      小山亘

      異文化コミュニケーション事典   66 - 67   2013

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    • 異文化コミュニケーション学と環境学の現在 Invited

      小山亘

      異文化コミュニケーション学への招待   1 - 44   2011

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    • オリゴ、あるいは指標野の中心:コミュニケーションの地平と出来事の視点 Invited

      小山亘

      人工知能学会誌26 ( 4 ) 334 - 343   2011

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    • The rise of pragmatics: A historiographic overview Invited

      Wataru Koyama

      Handbooks of Pragmatics1   139 - 166   2011

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    • 断片―交感:瓦礫の思想と記号の体制 Invited

      小山亘

      水声通信6 ( 1 ) 178 - 187   8 2010

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    • Indexically anchored onto the deictic center of discourse: Grammar, sociocultural interaction, and 'emancipatory pragmatics' Invited Peer-reviewed

      Wataru Koyama

      JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS41 ( 1 ) 79 - 92   1 2009

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      This paper tries to articulate an indexical theory of pragmatics that can consistently cover not only (1) referential and (2) non-referential, social-indexical practices, but also (3) linguistic structure, or its metalinguistic (cross-linguistic) matrices, comprised of indexically anchored grammatical categories and distinctive features. Noting that all of the three domains(1)-(3), can be shown to be indexically organized and anchored onto the deictic center of communicative event, that is, on Sociocultural, social-indexical interaction, I shall focus on articulating the deictically centered indexical organization of linguistic structure, or grammar. In so doing, I shall argue that not only social-indexical pragmatics, but also referential pragmatics and even grammar are anchored onto the deictic center of discursive interaction, which is, first and foremost, a Sociocultural event. Consequently, theories of 'language', including both pragmatics and linguistics, must be 'liberated' from the reference- or semantics-centric perspectives; instead, they should start from 'the bottom up', from the deictic center of Sociocultural interaction, i.e., 'discourse'. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

      DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.002

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    • Toward a critical dialogue across languages and cultures: On native and Western linguistics in modern Japan Invited Peer-reviewed

      Akiho Yamaguchi, Wataru Koyama

      JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS41 ( 1 ) 147 - 156   1 2009

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      This paper tries to present a native grammarian's view of Japanese, articulated in opposition to the analysis of the language based on the notions of 'Western linguistics' such as 'subject' and 'tense'. Although Yamaguchi's particular analysis, provided in section 2, is not shared by all native grammarians of Japanese, it does give an illustrative example of the perspectival stance, or 'footing', of a dominant school of National Language Studies (koku-go-gaku), of which Yamaguchi is a leading figure, towards language and culture. This 'footing', as seen in section 2, is characterized by its focus on 'emic analysis' and its espousal of nativism, which may be associated with nationalistic essentialism. As such, it gives us an opportunity to observe not only a different grammatical tradition, but also the irreducibly cultural, i.e., (social) pragmatic, dimension of grammatical (and pragmatic) analysis, centrally concerned with the (cross/sub)national identities and (cross/sub)disciplinary perspectives of grammarians, linguistics, and pragmaticists, as briefly suggested in section 1. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

      DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.009

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    • Origo Invited

      Language37 ( 5 ) 30 - 35   5 2008

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    • Review article, Masako K. Hiraga, Metaphor and Iconicity Invited

      Studies in Pragmatics ( 8 ) 109 - 121   3 2007

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    • Review article, Karen Risager (2006), Language and Culture. Invited

      Wataru Koyama

      Journal of Pragmatics39   436 - 440   1 2007

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    • Phonetics and pragmatics

      W. Koyama

      Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics9   415 - 418   2006

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      This article articulates the status of phonetics and pragmatics in linguistics and in the broader matrix of communication, or semiotics. After reviewing how phonetics and pragmatics have been theorized in linguistics, it briefly describes how they are integrated with each other in the semiotic matrix of communication, centered around the discursive processes of presupposing contextualization, creative textualization, and decontextualizing stereotyping. Further, it illustrates how linguistic structure is indexically anchored on phonetics and pragmatics through distinctive features and grammatical categories, respectively. Finally, it succinctly explicates how phonetic and pragmatic variations may become decontextualized and endowed with social-indexical forces and then recontextualized to create discursive texts. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

      DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00367-9

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    • Pragmatics and semantics

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      Keith Brown 編 Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition)10   25 - 32   12 2005

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    • Anthropology and pragmatics

      小山 亘

      Keith Brown 編 Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (second edition)1   304 - 312   12 2005

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    • Book review: Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics: An Introduction (2nd edition).

      小山 亘

      異文化コミュニケーション論集3   110 - 112.   4 2005

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    • A historic drift of culture and communication: A social semiotic shift in linguistic theories and language teaching from the medieval culture of the written "there and then" to the modern culture of speaking "here and now"-- Part II Invited

      Wataru Koyama

      異文化コミュニケーション論集3   23 - 39   4 2005

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    • 社会と指標の言語: 構造論、方言論、イデオロギー論の統一場としての史的社会語用論

      小山 亘

      片桐恭弘・片岡邦好編 講座社会言語科学 ひつじ書房5   40 - 43   4 2005

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    • 書評:ヤコブ・メイ著、Pragmatics: An Introduction (2nd edition)

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      立教大学大学院異文化コミュニケーション研究科 異文化コミュニケーション論集 ( 3 ) 110 - 112   3 2005

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    • Critical commentary on Michael Silverstein, "'Cultural' concepts and the language-culture nexus."

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      University of Chicago Press, Chicago, US Current Anthropology ( 45 ) 647 - 648   12 2004

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    • The linguistic ideologies of modern Japanese honorifics and the historic reality of modernity Peer-reviewed

      Language and Communication24 ( 4 ) 411 - 434   9 2004

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      Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (other academic)   Publisher:PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD  

      This paper analyzes honorifics and deference entitlement in Modern Japanese along with the modern Japanese and Euro-American pragmatic theories thereof, as ideologically mediated social phenomena, in the critical-theoretical framework where they are contextualized to their socio-historic surrounds, inter alia to the modern socio-economic conditions giving rise to, but hidden behind, the modern pragmatic theories and the honorific phenomena analyzed by them. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

      DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2004.01.003

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    • Honorifics in critical-historic pragmatics: The linguistic ideologies of modernity, the national standard, and modern Japanese honorifics. Peer-reviewed

      Journal of Pragmatics36   2023 - 2054   9 2004

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    • A historic drift of culture and communication: A social semiotic shift in linguistic theories and language etaching from the medieval culture of the written ”there and then” to the modern culture of speaking ”here and now”-- Part I Invited

      Wataru Koyama

      異文化コミュニケーション論集2   45 - 54   4 2004

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    • How to do historic pragmatics with Japanese honorifics Peer-reviewed

      Journal of Pragmatics ( 35 ) 1507 - 1514   9 2003

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    • Language and its Double: A Critical History of Dialects, Languages, and Metalanguages in Japan

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      University of Chicago Ph. D. Dissertation   3 2003

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    • Language and the culture of gender:At the intersection of structure, usage, and ideology Peer-reviewed

      Silverstein Michael, Koyama Wataru, Tokuchi Shinji

      The Japanese Journal of Language in Society4 ( 2 ) 70 - 107   3 2002

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      DOI: 10.19024/jajls.4.2_70

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    • Dialectics of dialect and dialectology: Culture, structure, and ideology of “the Kyoto dialect” of Japanese Peer-reviewed

      小山 亘

      Journal of Pragmatics33   1571 - 1600   9 2001

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    • Reason, experience, and critical-historical pragmatics

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      Journal of Pragmatics ( 33 ) 1631 - 1636   9 2001

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    • How to do pragmatics with Japanese complementizers

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      Journal of Pragmatics ( 33 ) 317 - 321   1 2001

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    • 方言、構造、普遍文法: 方言間のヴァリエーションと比較言語学的普遍から特殊言語の構造を三角測量する方法

      小山 亘

      社会言語科学会 社会言語科学会 第6回大会予稿集   13 - 18   9 2000

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    • 記号言語理性批判序説:記号論の「可能性=終焉」のかくも長き不在 Invited

      小山 亘

      現代思想 青土社28 ( 8 ) 169 - 191   7 2000

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    • How to be a singular scientist of words, worlds, and other (possibly) wonderful things: An obituary for James D. McCawley (1934-1999) - Remembrance Invited

      W Koyama

      JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS32 ( 6 ) 651 - 686   5 2000

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      This obituary tries to represent the total vision of Jim McCawley's philosophy of practice, philosophy of language, linguistic theory,'syntactic' theory, linguistic analyses and scientific practices, in all of which his individualism, relativism and critical rationalism were consistently manifested. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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    • Critique of linguistic reason II: Structure and pragmatics, synchrony and diachrony, and language and metalanguage Invited Peer-reviewed

      小山 亘

      RASK: Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation12   21 - 63   4 2000

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    • Critique of linguistic reason, I: Pragmatic prerequisites to universal grammatical analysis Invited Peer-reviewed

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      RASK: Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation11   45 - 84   12 1999

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    • Reference entailment and maintenance mechanisms in universal grammar of Japanese Peer-reviewed

      Wataru Koyama

      Studies in Language23 ( 1 ) 105 - 147   1999

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    • Desemanticizing pragmatics Peer-reviewed

      Wataru Koyama

      Journal of Pragmatics28 ( 1 ) 1 - 28   8 1997

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    • Shifters, grammatical categories and distinctive features

      The Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society ( 23 ) 446 - 458   1 1997

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    • Dishonorable honorifics: Changes in Japanese verbal honorifics and the linguistic and cultural ideologies of “Standard Average European” speech communities

      The Proceedings from the Panels of the Chicago Linguistic Society's Thirty-third Meeting33 ( 2 ) 45 - 57   1 1997

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    Misc.

    • 社会文化コミュニケーション, 文法, 英語教育

      小山亘

      言語人類学から見た英語教育   9 - 85   2009

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      Publisher:ひつじ書房  

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    Books and Other Publications

    • On Translation

      Wataru Koyama, Yuichi Asai( Role: Joint editor)

      9 2022  ( ISBN:9784883035533

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    • 小学校英語への専門的アプローチ:ことばの世界を拓く

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 49-65(共著論文))

      春風社  12 2019 

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    • 相互行為におけるディスコーダンス:言語人類学からみた不一致・不調和・葛藤

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 237-260(第9章))

      ひつじ書房  5 2018 

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    • レキシコン 現代人類学

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp.160-167)

      以文社  2 2018 

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    • 環境人文学II:他者としての自然

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 269-285)

      勉誠出版  4 2017 

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    • シリーズ・朝倉日英対照言語学〔発 展編〕』第1巻

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 125-145(第7章))

      朝倉書店  3 2017 

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    • Theory of communication

      Wataru Koyama( Role: Sole author)

      Sangen-sha  30 4 2012  ( ISBN:9784883033133

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    • 異文化コミュニケーション学への招待

      ( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 1-44(序章))

      みすず書房  11 2011 

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    • On modern linguistic ideologies

      Wataru Koyama( Role: Sole author)

      Sangen-sha  10 3 2011  ( ISBN:9784883032808

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    • 言語人類学から見た英語教育

      綾部保志, 榎本剛士, 小山亘( Role: Joint author)

      ひつじ書房  30 5 2009 

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    • 記号の思想:現代言語人類学の一軌跡

      マイケル・シルヴァスティン( Role: Joint translator)

      三元社  29 5 2009 

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    • Genealogy of Signs: Horizons of Social Semiotic Linguistic Anthropology

      Wataru Koyama

      1 2008  ( ISBN:9784883032198

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      Total pages:537p   Language:Japanese

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    • 批判的社会語用論入門:社会と文化の言語

      小山 亘( Role: Sole translator)

      三元社  10 2005 

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    • 『講座社会言語科学 第五巻:社会・行動システム』

      小山 亘( Role: Joint author ,  pp. 40-53; 社会と指標の言語:構造論、方言論、イデオロギー論の統一場としての史的社会語用論)

      ひつじ書房  4 2005 

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    Professional Memberships

    Works

    • アジアの文化・インターアクション・言語の相互関係に関する実証的・理論的研究 Other

      4 2003
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    • fieldwork on Japanese dialects, especially the Kyoto dialects (including archival studies) Other

      4 1997
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      4 2003

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    • 京都方言等の日本方言(社会方言を含む)に関する文献及び実地調査(シカゴ大学) Other

      4 1997
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    Research Projects

    • Intercultural Communication Studies for a Sustainable Future

      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 

      TORIKAI Kumiko, HIRAGA Masako, NODA Kenichi, ABE Osamu, KOYAMA Wataru, NADAMITSU Yoko, KUME Teruyuki, HAGIWARA Go, NAKATANI Hajime

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      2009 - 2011

      Grant number:21320108

      Grant amount:\17680000 ( Direct Cost: \13600000 、 Indirect Cost:\4080000 )

      The aim of our study was to formulate an integrated and innovative kind of intercultural communication studies. For this purpose, we placed the concept of "sustainability" as the main objective, incorporating various fields related to communication such as culture, nature, language as well as translation and interpreting. We have also applied our efforts to educational aspects of the graduate school, which we consider to be vital to consolidate theory and practice of communication studies for a sustainable future. The outcome of our research has been compiled in "Introduction to Intercultural Communication Studies" published by Misuzu-shobo.

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    • Intercultural Communication Studies for a Sustainable Future -International Education for Tomorrow-

      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 

      TORIKAI Kumiko

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      2006 - 2008

      Grant number:18320092

      Grant amount:\16460000 ( Direct Cost: \13700000 、 Indirect Cost:\2760000 )

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    • A Genre-Analytical Study of Intercultural Pragmatics : Towards a Cognitive Model of Academic Discourse

      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 

      HIRAGA Masako, KUME Teruyuki, KOYAMA Wataru

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      2005 - 2007

      Grant number:17520280

      Grant amount:\3900000 ( Direct Cost: \3600000 、 Indirect Cost:\300000 )

      The aim of this project is two-fold : i) to propose a genre-analytical approach as a viable methodology to delineate and validate the parallel text in comparative and contrastive cultural research, and ii) to construct a cognitive model to explicate the findings drawn from the data obtained by triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods.
      The data include video recordings and participant observations of authentic tutorials in British, Japanese, and intercultural settings, retrospective interviews to intercultural tutorial participants, semi-structured interviews on British educational values and systems to Japanese students studying in Britain, and discourse completion tests administered to British and Japanese informants.
      A key issue relates to how best to describe and explain the socio-cultural assumptions that play an important role in the generation, perception and interpretation of pragmatic practices in our daily communication as well as in intercultural encounters. The analysis has dealt with : i) how students in both educational cultures are classified according to their behavioral and communication patterns ; ii) how Japanese students embody their cultural, symbolic, and economic habitus, which they tend to transfer or to negotiate in the British academic settings ; and iii) how Japanese students recognize and employ verbalization and non-verbalization in academic discourse. It has been argued that the Japanese students share at varying degrees certain socio-cultural assumptions and values about their educational goals and rationales, which comprise their cognitive model. This model is altered, negotiated, or sustained in their discursive interactions with the British tutors, and has been demonstrated to be an effective tool to evaluate and describe the generation, perception and interpretation of pragmatic practices
      Emphasizing the increasingly intercultural nature of academic encounters, and elaborating them as both language and social practices is one way of working in the current context of educational globalization.

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    • Theoretical and Practical Investigation of the Relationship Among Culture, Language, and Interaction in Asia

      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 

      IDE Sachiko, KATAGIRI Yasuhiro, HORIE Kaoru, ABE Keiko, ISHIZAKI Masato, KATAOKA Kunihiro

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      2003 - 2005

      Grant number:15320054

      Grant amount:\14300000 ( Direct Cost: \14300000 )

      <Heisei 15>
      In an attempt to better understand the cultural basis of discourse, This group held seven research meetings to discuss the types of discourse which reveal the cultural backgrounds of speakers. In our search for ways to gather data that would enable us to explore the role of culture in discourse, we examined previously gathered corpora, including the "map corpus" and the "call home" corpus. Ultimately, we decided to collect a new data set using as a reference the "Pear Story" and "Frog Story" corpora that were gathered in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s and that included a comparison across languages. We used the story of "Mr.O" and decided to collect data from a number of languages (Japanese, English, Korean. Chinese, and Thai). The research design included videorecording of the data as well as DAT recordings. A pilot study was undertaken in early March.
      <Heisei 16>
      Employing the research design devised the previous year, the group began collecting data. The data gather included three tasks : 1) construction of a story in pairs ; 2) narrative ; and 3) spontaneous conversation about an occurrence that surprised the participants. The data was gathered in pairs, with 26 pairs of Japanese, 22 Americans, and 4 each of Chinese and Korean. Through the help of IR Aruto, the data was transcribed. The Japanese data was transcribed : 1) in Kanji and kana letters ; 2) as well as the roman alphabet ; and 3) including markings for overlapping talk. Following the collection of the data, closed workshops and special meetings were held to reflect on and discuss the results. We also decided to present the data as a panel at the International Pragmatics Conference to be held in the following year.
      <Heisei 17>
      We held a closed workshop to further discuss the data. In addition, we presented our results both within and outside of Japan by organizing a panel at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference (the conference venue was Italy) and by organizing and taking part in the 7th International Forum on Language, the Brain, and Cognition (co-sponsored by the Japan Women's University and Toohoku University and held at the Shinsensankan at Japan Women's University). We also made preparations to set up a homepage for our data and to publish our results for an even wider audience.

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    • Construction of a socio-historical theory of communication

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      4 2003 - 3 2004

      Grant type:Competitive

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    • 国際学術誌 RASK(南デンマーク大学)編集委員

      10 2005 - Present

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    • 国際学術誌 The Journal of Pragmatics 投稿論文編集諮問委員

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      12 2010 - 8 2016

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    • 立教異文化コミュニケーション学会 学会長

      5 2014 - 3 2016

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    • 社会言語科学会編集委員

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      社会言語科学会  4 2009 - 3 2013

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