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- Title:
- Associate Professor
- Teacher Group:
- Language and Communication
Classes
Applied linguistics
Class Content
New ‘grammar’ of language that emerges from actual conversation
In traditional linguistics, daily conversation has not been a subject of study since it was not thought to be well-ordered or systematized. In recent years, however, due to developments of the analytical framework of analysis and analytical instruments, natural conversation and spontaneous interaction are attracting more attention. Recent analysis includes gestures or body movements of participants as well as each utterance. It is applied in Language Education, Cognitive Science, Robotics or and Design Engineering. In this course, students will first learn the flow of linguistics that deals with daily conversation, then aquire the basic methods of analyzing natural interaction, and experience field work and actual data analysis. Throughout the entire course, we will consider the factors that affect the structure of human interaction and the new ‘grammar’ of language that emerges from actual conversation.
Brief Outline of History & Achievements
HIRATA, Miki. and YAMAMOTO, Mari. 2021. Structure of reference practice and speaker's choice of reference expressions in interaction. YAMANASHI, Masaaki (ed.) Studies in cognitive linguistics 15, 177-207. Hituzi Syobo Publishing.
HIRATA, Miki. 2020. Process of inter-subjectification in deictic reference. KATO, Shigehiro and TAKIURA, Masato (eds.) Japanese pragmatic forum 3, 229-260. Hituzi Syobo Publishing.
HIRATA, Miki. 2020. Japanese demonstratives and joint attention. Hituzi Syobo Publishing.
HIRATA Miki. 2016. Speaker choice of qualitative features of demonstratives in the establishment of joint attention. Studies in Pragmatics 18, 28-47.
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Academic Society Affiliations
The Pragmatics Society of Japan, Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
mihirata@oia.hokudai.ac.jp
Research Areas
Pragmatics, Cognitive linguistics