Haruko Minegishi Cook

Professor, Japanese Language

Moore Hall 362
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-2057
Fax: (808) 956-9515
E-mail: hkcook@hawaii.edu

Educational Background

Educational Background

B.A.: Sophia University (Japan), History, 1970
B.A.: Sophia University (Japan), English Language, 1972
M.A.: California State University, Linguistics, 1978
Ph.D.: University of Southern California, Linguistics, 1988

Research Areas

Sociolingusitics
Discourse analysis
Language socialization
Pragmatics

Selected Bibliography

2011. Are honorifics polite? Use of referent honorifics in a Japanese committee meeting. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 3655-3672

2011. Language socialization and stance-taking practices. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. Schieffelin (eds.),The Handbook of Language Socialization. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp.296-321.

2011. Why can’t learners of JFL distinguish polite from impolite speech styles? In Dawn Archer and Peter Grundy (eds.), The Pragmatics Reader. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 354-370. (originally published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press is chosen as one of the articles that represent the academic field of Pragmatics and reprinted in The Pragmatics Reader).

2008. The pragmatics of Japanese sentence-final forms. In Mutsuko E. Hudson, Sun-Ah Jun, Peter Sells, Patricia M. Clancy, Shoichi Iwasaki, Sung-Ock Sohn (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13. CA: Stanford Linguistics Association, 385-396.

2008. Socializing Identities through Speech style: Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2008. Organization of turns, speech styles and postures in a Japanese elementary school. In Junko Mori and Amy Ohta (eds.), Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives. London: Continuum International Publishing, pp.80-108.

2008. Language socialization in Japanese. In Patricia Duff and Nancy Hornbeger (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Language Socialization. New York: Springer, pp. 313-326.

2006. Japanese politeness as an interactional achievement: Academic consultation sessions in Japanese universities. Multilingua 25: 269-292.

2006. The acquisition of the Japanese sentence particles, ne, yo and no. In Mineharu Nakayama, Reiko Mazuka and Yasuhiro Shirai (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 2 Japanese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-109.

2006. Joint construction of folk belief by JFL learners and Japanese host families. In Margaret Dufon and Eton Churchill (eds.), Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2003. “Additive collocations of Japanese sentence-final particles in conversation.” In Gudrun, Held (ed.)Cross Cultural Communication: Partikeln und hoflichkeit [ Particles and politeness]. Bern: Peter Lang, pp.203-218.

2002. “The social meanings of the Japanese plain form.” Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10. CA: Stanford Linguistics Association, pp. 150-163.

2001. Why can’t learners of Japanese as a foreign language distinguish polite from impolite speech styles? In Kenneth R. Rose and Gabriele Kasper (eds.) Pragmatics in Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-102.

2001. Particle. In Alessandro Duranti (ed.) Key Terms in Language and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 176-179.

1999. Language socialization in Japanese elementary schools: Attentive listening and reaction turns.Journal of Pragmatics 31:1443-1465.

1998. Students’ use of the impersonal style in a Japanese elementary schools classroom. Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture 1:43-58.

1998. Situational meaning of the Japanese social deixis: The mixed use of the masu and plain form.Journal of Linguistics Anthropology 8(1):87-110.

1997. The role of the Japanese masu form in caregiver-child conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 28:695-718.

1996. The use of addressee honorifics in Japanese elementary school classroom. In Noriko Akatsuka, Shoichi Iwasaki and Susan Strauss (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol 5. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, pp. 67-81.

1993. Functions of the filler ano in Japanese. In Soonja Choi (ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol 3. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, pp.19-38.

1992. Meanings of non-referential indexes: A case of the Japanese particle neText 12: 507-539.

1990. An indexical account of the Japanese sentence-final particle no. In Discourse Processes 13: 401-439.

1990. The role of the Japanese sentence-final particle no in the socialization of children. In Multilingua 9: 377-395.

 

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