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Books by Masataka Yamaguchi

The study of language, culture, and cognition has become increasingly fragmented into separate di... more The study of language, culture, and cognition has become increasingly fragmented into separate disciplines and paradigms. This volume aims to re-establish dialogue between cognitive linguists and linguistic anthropologists with 11 original papers on language, culture and cognition, and an editorial introduction. It demonstrates that cognitively-informed perspectives can contribute to a better understanding of social, cultural, and historical phenomena, and argues that cognitive theories are relevant to linguistic anthropology.

Papers by Masataka Yamaguchi

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition, 2014

Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Nov 15, 2020

This chapter is concerned with the act of “bonding” in intercultural encounters. Drawing on a soc... more This chapter is concerned with the act of “bonding” in intercultural encounters. Drawing on a sociocognitive theory of context, I analyze interactions taken from my fieldwork in the United States and research interviews in New Zealand. Against the dominant trend of antimentalism in linguistic anthropology, I focus on common ground (CG) as a cognitive context in interaction. Analytically, I attend to face strategies and relationship implicative actions. My point is argue that the notion of CG needs to be refined and extended by taking into account ideological components. For further empirical studies, I suggest that we should specify what kinds of ideologies are integrated into components of common ground and explore how we can create bonding between participants with conflicting ideologies across national boundaries. Implications for linguistic anthropology are also discussed from an evolutionary perspective.

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition, 2014

Language, 2002

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村田和代、井出里咲子編ひつじ書房 2016年春刊行

In this elegantly written, highly entertaining, and deeply engaging book, Rymes develops a ‘reper... more In this elegantly written, highly entertaining, and deeply engaging book, Rymes develops a ‘repertoire approach’ to communication, which originates from John J. Gumperz. She further expands the scope of ‘linguistic repertoire’ to multimodal phenomena, including rhythm and intonation, story lines, dance steps, and clothing, as the phrase ‘beyond language’ indicates. The point of departure is her recognition of ‘massive communicative diversity’ in late modernity (p. 1), which is a central theme in this monograph.

本稿の目的は, 捕鯨報道により日本人に対する人種的ステレオタイプが再生産されていることを, 豪州The Australian紙に掲載された記事とそれに対する読者のコメントをデータとして分析するこ... more 本稿の目的は, 捕鯨報道により日本人に対する人種的ステレオタイプが再生産されていることを, 豪州The Australian紙に掲載された記事とそれに対する読者のコメントをデータとして分析することにより示すことである.理論的枠組として「間接指標性」という概念を援用する.具体的には2014年3月, 日本の大西洋上の調査捕鯨に対して, オーストラリアが提訴した訴訟の結果, 違法判決が国際司法裁判所（ハーグ）で下されたことを報道する記事を中心に見る. その際,「捕鯨報道におけるテキスト間連鎖の間接指標的機能は,日本人に関する否定的ステレオタイプの再生産である」を作業仮説とする.分析により「法律を守らない日本人」,「残酷な日本人」,「陰険な日本人」などの否定的イメージが再生産されたことを示す. 今後の課題として, 読者が参加できる反捕鯨サイトを研究することで経験的基盤を更に強化できると提案する.

本章の目的は、筆者がニュージーランドと豪州で収集した文化的活動としての「調査インタビュー」及び「ゴシップ」を分析対象にすることで雑談の美学について考察することである。ここでは「雑談」をこれらの活... more 本章の目的は、筆者がニュージーランドと豪州で収集した文化的活動としての「調査インタビュー」及び「ゴシップ」を分析対象にすることで雑談の美学について考察することである。ここでは「雑談」をこれらの活動における本来の目的から逸脱した情報伝達を行う発話の連鎖、と定義する。言語の多機能性を理論的支柱にして、「質問」を中心とした「指令的」（Searle 1976）発話とその連鎖を中心に分析する。その結果、インタビューやゴシップといった活動の目的から逸脱した情報伝達が見られる発話連鎖にも、対話者間で共有できる知識基盤を創造する側面が認められた。本章では、そのような知識の共有へのプロセスを「雑談の美学」と捉えることを主張する。

The aim of this article is to argue against the dominant trend of anti-cognitivism in discourse s... more The aim of this article is to argue against the dominant trend of anti-cognitivism in discourse studies, with particular reference to discourse and identity. Illustrative data are taken from my interactions with ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese-heritage youth in New Zealand. Through analysis, I show syntactic patterns in discourse, which derive from common ground among the interactants. Using the theory of context models, I analyze the data and hypothesize that the denotationally-explicit representations of self-identity are mediated by the implicitly shared pure race and one-blood rule schemas as socioculturally shared knowledge. I conclude by suggesting that two kinds of cognitivism be distinguished so that a false dichotomy of either ‘individual mind’ or ‘interactional emergence’ can be avoided in conceptualizing notions of identity.

Language & Communication , Oct 2013

Journal of Multicultural Discourses , Jan 18, 2012

In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/Ne... more In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents his ethno-national identities to me in New Zealand. Drawing on the concept of ‘poetic’ structure, I reveal implicit assumptions in the patternings of discourse. Specifically, he discursively constructs his ‘racially-mixed’ identities by presupposing ‘pure race’ as a social fact. It is also shown that a powerful implicit assumption is the hegemony of whiteness, to which he responds in the construction of New Zealander identities. For comparative purposes, I further analyze interview data taken from another Japanese-heritage participant. Based on the analyses, I discuss implications for the analysis of multicultural discourses, and suggest that the reproduction of hegemonic values deserves more attention.

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Jun 5, 2009

This article is concerned with the development of an analytic strategy to construct U.S. cultural... more This article is concerned with the development of an analytic strategy to construct U.S. cultural models of war and terrorism, which are ‘mediatized’ or significantly shaped by the media. Central to that strategy are repair cues to non-understanding as heuristics in intercultural encounters. These are applied to an inherently mediatized discursive ‘reality’ of war and terrorism. Theoretically, I synthesize sociolinguistic and anthropological perspectives into a ‘meta-oriented sociolinguistics’, which analytically focuses on the meta-dimension of discourse. The strategy is applied to a text on war and terrorism from the New York Times, to demonstrate its utility. Furthermore, I provide implications for enhancing validity in the ethnography of mediatized discourse. Specific to the findings of this article, I suggest that corpus studies of media discourse should be conducted on the metadiscursive keywords kamikaze, surprise attacks, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11 in particular temporal frames.

Discourse & Society, Mar 1, 2005

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition, 2014

Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Nov 15, 2020

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition, 2014

Language, 2002

村田和代、井出里咲子編ひつじ書房 2016年春刊行

Language & Communication , Oct 2013

Journal of Multicultural Discourses , Jan 18, 2012

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Jun 5, 2009

Discourse & Society, Mar 1, 2005

行き違いのコミュニケーション－言語実践におけるディスコーダンス現象と文化・社会・歴史の交わり

In analyzing a gossip session between three Australians and this author in Brisbane, it is argued... more In analyzing a gossip session between three Australians and this author in Brisbane, it is argued that discordance, defined as (partial) lack of agreement or harmony among interlocutors, may not develop into a conflict-ridden argument if the meta-strategy of "tact" is used in "ritualized" communication (Senft 2009). Specifically, Australians' gossip that targeted a Japanese woman was "unsafe" for this Japanese author but their use of "crossing" strategies such as stereotypically ambiguous Japanese expressions, metapragamatic/metalinguistic glossing, and remedial interchanges, prevented the interaction from developing into conflict. Implications are discussed with reference to the relationship between macro-social notions such as "White multiculturalism" (Hage 2000) and Goffmanian-Gumperzian interactional notions such as "ritual", "discourse strategies", and "crossing" (cf. Rampton 1995).

場の語用論構築に向けて

This paper is a preliminary to constructing a pragmatic theory of "ba" ("field, place, space, sit... more This paper is a preliminary to constructing a pragmatic theory of "ba" ("field, place, space, situation", etc.) (Nishida 1953; Jodo 2003; Shimizu 1995). Using the conceptual framework developed by William F. Hanks (2016a, 2016b), who synthesizes Nishida's philosophy and practice theories, I illustrate the framework with five interactions in Yucatec Maya and Japanese. In particular it is shown that the improvisational model (Shimizu 1995) offers a useful analytic lens in the analysis. It is argued that the pragmatics of "ba" is an inherently multi-disciplinary project, in which the analyst proposes falsifiable hypotheses in the paradigm of complexity science (Boyd and Richerson 2006; Kauffman 1995; Larsen-Freeman and Cameron 2008, among others).

The aim is to explore intricate relationships between social identity and listenership in the con... more The aim is to explore intricate relationships between social identity and listenership in the contemporary world. This paper is specifically intended to be an empirical study of listenership behavior in intercultural encounters, in which contextually-situated and macro-social identities are intertwined, from a linguistic-anthropological perspective. The data are taken from an interaction between Australian and Japanese speakers who engage in gossip mainly in Japanese. Through analysis, I suggest that the notion of “contextualization cue” (Gumperz 1982) can conceptualize various kinds of semiotic cues by listeners, and thus is useful in constructing a more encompassing or “universal” framework applicable to a wide range of listenership behavior. Implications are discussed for modeling listenership behavior as a participation framework.