The １０th Annual Meetingof
The Pragmatics SocietyofJapanPROGRAM

December 8 - 9, 2007
Kansai Gaidai University at Nakamiya

Kansai Gaidai University at Nakamiya
Higashinocho 16-1, Nakamiya, Hirakata City, Osaka 573-1001, Japan
Telephone number: 81-72-805-2801 for international calls
URL: http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/

MMap and Directions

Transportation to Kansai Gaidai University

From KANSAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT to the NAKAMIYA CAMPUS
All direct international flights bound for Osaka will land in Kansai International Airport (KIX). Public limousine bus andtrain services are available KIX to Kansai Gaidai.

Upon your arrival at KIX, go to the 2nd floor (the arrival gate is located on the first floor) and take the JR Line "Kansai
Airport Rapid Service" to JR Kyobashi station. Walk to Keihan Kyobashi station, which is connected to JR Kyobashi
Station. At Keihan Kyobashi Station, take an express train bound for Demachiyanagi and get off at Hirakata-shi Station.

From JR KYOTO STATION to the NAKAMIYA CAMPUS
At JR Kyoto station, take any express train on the KINTETSU-line and get off at Tambabashi-station. At Tambabashistation, change trains to the KEIHAN-line bound for Yodoyabashi and get off at Hirakata-shi Station. The Express train
takes about 20 minutes and the Semi-Express about 36 minutes.

From KEIHAN HIRAKATA-SHI STATION to the NAKAMIYA CAMPUS
Once you arrive at Keihan Hirakata-shi station, you can take a taxi, or a Keihan bus from bus depot #3 or #4 (north exitside) and get off at Gaidai-mae.

The Tenth Annual MeetingofThe Pragmatics Society of Japan

December 8 - 9, 2007
Kansai Gaidai University at Nakamiya

Registration:

9:00～

Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.,Multimedia Hall

Common Room for the Committee Members of Hosting University: Bldg 1, 2nd fl., Room 1204
Common Room for Participants:

Bldg 1, 2nd fl., Room 1205, Room 1206

Common Room for Paper Presenters:

Bldg 1, 2nd fl., Room 1207

Book Exhibit:

Bldg 1, 2nd fl., Room 1208

Lunch

10:00～18:00

Dec ８ (SAT)： Kosei Kita Bldg (Cafeteria No. 1 & No.2, McDonald's,
San Francisco Coffee)
Kosei Minami Bldg (Cafeteria No. 3)
Dec ９ (SUN)： Kosei Minami Bldg (Cafeteria No. 3)

Summary of Conference Schedule
９ (SUN)

８ (SAT)
10:00～

Opening Ceremony

9:00～

Lecture Sessions 2

10:40～

Keynote Lecture 1

11:40～

Keynote Lecture 2

12:50～PSJ General Assembly

14:00～

Keynote Lecture 3

13:30～

Workshop Sessions

15:40～

Symposium

13:30～

Poster Sessions

18:10～

Closing Ceremony

15:10～

Lecture Sessions 1

18:00～

Reception

Dec 8, Sat.
Opening Ceremony（10:00～10:30）

Chair:

Multimedia Hallat Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.

Takuo HAYASHI (Secretary General, PSJ)

1. Opening Speech

Harumi SAWADA (President, PSJ)

2. Welcoming Speech

Yoshitaka TANIMOTO (President, Kansai Gaidai University)

Keynote Lecture 1 （10:40～12:10）[Multimedia Hall at Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.]
Chair: Reiko HAYASHI (Konan Women's University)

Teun A. VAN DIJK （Pompeu Fabra University）
Text and Context Revisited: Thirty Years Later

PSJ General Assembly (12:50～13:20)

Multimedia Hallat Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.

Chair:

Takuo HAYASHI (Secretary General, PSJ)

1. President's Greetings

Harumi SAWADA (Kansai Gaidai University)

2. Secretary General's Report

Takuo HAYASHI (St. Andrew's University)

3. Managing Editor's ReportMasa-aki YAMANASHI (Kyoto University)

4. Treasurer's Report

Eiichi YAMAMOTO (Kansai University)

5. Other reports

Workshop Sessions （13:30～14:50）[Bldg 1, 2nd fl.]1. 13:30～13:50

2. 13:50～14:10

3. 14:10～14:30

4. 14:30 ～14:50

Dec 8, Sat.
Room 1(J) ［#1209］ presentation in Japanese"Examining features of Japanese spoken discourse: Analyses of discourse through various approaches"
Organizer: Sachiko TAKAGI (Osaka Prefecture University)
1. Frames: A tool to capture dynamism in ongoing conversations.
Sachiko TAKAGI (Osaka Prefecture University)
2. Discourse structure and fillers.
Chie YAMANE-YOSHINAGA (Sanyo Gakuen University)
3. Speech acts in a sequence of utterances.
Yuko YOSHINARI (Kobe University)

Room 2(J/E) ［#1210］ presentation in Japanese except for #4"Discourse and text"

Organizer: Michiko TAKEUCHI

1. On the acquisition of the discourse marker well: A comparison of Japanese learners’ usage before
and after studying abroad.

Aya YAMAMOTO (Ochanomizu University)

2. Concerning transitional expressions by ‘the stance of being on stage’:With special reference to the differences between Japanese and English.
Haruhiko ONO (Hokkaido Musashi Women’s Junior College)
3. The effect of ‘repeat’ in picture books: From the perspective of schema theory.
Yoko KASANUKI (Nihon University)
4. An analysis of the preverbal insertion of focus particles in Luganda.
Jackson SSEKIRYANGO (Makerere University Kampala)Room 3(J) ［#1211］ presentation in Japanese"On modality and subjectivity"

Organizer: Satoshi KINSUI (Osaka University)

1. An analysis of subjunctive could + perfect infinitive construction: From a Mental Space
theoretical perspective.

Hirohito KATAOKA (Kansai Gaidai University)

2. Deictic directional expressions and subjectivity.
Jun SAWADA (Kyoto University/ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
3. Modality and motivation.

Shunichiro NAGATOMO (Kansai Gaidai College)

Room 4(J) ［#1212］ presentation in Japanese"Dynamic pragmatics: A new perspective"

Organizer: Shigehiro KATO (Hokkaido University)

1. Can the deduction system of the Relevance Theory trace the dynamism of pragmatics?
ONO Yoshihiko (Hokkaido University)
2. Dynamic framework of three-memory model and contexts.
Shigehiro KATO (Hokkaido University)
3. On a knowledge-based approach for discourse analysis.
Keita YAMAGUCHI (Hokkaido University)
4. The function of Japanese no-da.

Yuri NAKANO (Hokkaido University)Dec 8, Sat.
Poster Sessions （13：30～15：00）[Bldg 1, 2nd fl. (#1216)]
1. Embodiment on perception verbs: From the usage distribution of compound verbs of perception.
Yufuko TAKASHIMA (Kyoto University)
2. Descriptionally-identifying sentences and predicational sentences within the frameworkof Mental Space Theory.

Natsuko NAKAGAWA (Kyoto University)

3. An observation on the use of verbs of thinking with first person subject:
From the viewpoint of construal.

LIN Pei-Yi (Tohoku University)

4. The motivations for SA-insertion in Japanese.

Isamu TAKAKI (Kyoto University)

5. The impact of explicit instruction on second language learners’interlanguage pragmatic development.
Hsiu-Ting HUNG (National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology)
6. Advanced learners' linguistic forms used in reference introduction:
The case of a single picture description.

Yoko YAMADA (Kansai Gaidai University)

Lecture Sessions 1 (15:10～17:40)[Bldg 1, 2nd fl.]1. 15:10～15:45

2. 15:45～16:20

3. 16:30～17:05

4. 17:05～17:40

Room 1(J) [#1209] presentation in Japanese
Chair: Seiji UCHIDA (Nara Women's University)
1. Ad hoc concepts and English suffixes -ish and -like.

Ryo IDO (Gunma University)

2. The interpretation of conjunction and juxtaposition and its relation to processing effort.
KAJIURA Kyohei (Meikai University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Isao HIGASHIMORI (Ryukoku University)
3. Computational model for word sense representation based on the cognitive principleof relevance.

Hiroshi SEKIYA (Meiji University),
Yan-Chen CHEN (Meiji University),
Tomohiro TAKAGI (Meiji University),
and Tomoko MATSUI (Kyoto University)Dec 8, Sat.
Room 2(J) [#1210] presentation in Japanese
Chair: Motoko HORI (Kansai Gaidai University)
1. AIZUCHI speech when listening to new information: One consideration
regarding the language selection of speakers in polite speech.
Natsumi ITO (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
2. Addressivity in street orations during a Japanese election: Interaction with various audiencetypes.

Keiko IKEDA (Nagoya University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Takuo HAYASHI (St. Andrew's University)

3. ‘Speaker expressions’ in Japanese politeness.
Misato TOKUNAGA (Showa Women’s University)
4. Communication strategies employed in leading questions.
Junko KOBAYASHI (Kansai Gaidai University)

Room 3(J) ［#1211］ presentation in Japanese
Chair: Susumu KUBO (Matsuyama University)
1. Strategies in Chinese and Japanese requesting.

WANG Yinghui (University of Tokyo)

2. Deictic expressions as speech acts in English.

HARADA Yoriko (Keio University)(10 minute break)
Chair: YU-Wei (Kansai Gaidai University)
3. A quantitative speech-act analysis of the institutional talk in mock trials in Japan.
Syûgo HOTTA (Ritsumeikan University),
Takeshi HASHIUCHI (St. Andrew's University),
and Masahiro FUJITA (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
4. A diachronic study on Chinese language in light of social-pragmatics: Case study
on speech act “asking age”.

Guoyue PENG (Kanagawa University)

Room 4(E) [#1212] presentation in English
Chair: Haruhiko YAMAGUCHI (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
1. Two types of 'at all' in Japanese: An absolute type and a relative type.
Osamu SAWADA (University of Chicago)
2. Or at the semantic-pragmatic interface.
Xinren CHEN (Nanjing University)Dec 8, Sat.
Room 5(E) ［#1213］ presentation in English
Chair: Osamu TAKAHARA (Professor Emeritus, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)1. The interpersonal functions of rhetorical questions in Chinese contexts.
Xiaoguo FANG (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
2. On some distinct characteristics of English conversation between non-native speakers ofEnglish: A special attention to a function of non-shared laughter.
Lalida WIBOONWACHARIYAKUN (Chiang Mai Rajabhat University/ Shiga University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Masao TAKAJI (Former Professor, Miyazaki Municipal University)
3. Code-alternation in online discussion forums in Taiwan: A functional approach.
Szu-Yu Ruby CHEN (Lancaster University)
4. English in Hong Kong Cantopop: Language choice, code-switching and genre.
Brian Hok-Shing CHAN (University of Macau)

Room 6(E) ［#1214］ presentation in English
Chair: Isao HIGASHIMORI (Ryukoku University)
1. Cross-cultural contrasts in indirect complaint: French and Japanese students in the English
language classroom.

Constance ELLWOOD (University of Western Sydney)

2. Some features of the Japanese copula construction: In the light of the grammaticalization ofnoda.

Yasuko KANDA (Osaka Gakuin University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Tokumi KODAMA (Ritsumeikan University)

3. The pragmatic analysis of verbal/nonverbal emotion expressions of hazukashii
and terekusai in Japanese.

Rie HASADA (Kanagawa University)

4. Socialization into politeness: A view from a Japanese preschool.
Matthew BURDELSKI (Saitama University)

Room 7(E) ［#1215］ presentation in English
Chair: Keiko MATSUKI (Doshisha University)
1. Emotions, poetic effects, and pragmatic inference in advertising language.
Vincent Dao-Xun ZHANG (National Chengchi University)
2. Pragmatic analysis on Biblical texts: A case of Chapter 9 of John’s Gospel.
Hisayasu ITO (Ritsumeikan University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Lawrence Schourup (Osaka Prefecture University)
3. Some trends of modern American English in everyday communication:
A descriptive pragmatic view.

Xianlong FAN (Central South University)

4. How do Japanese scholars write their abstracts in English?
Zosia GOLEBIOSKI and Tomoyuki KAWASE (Deakin University)Dec 8, Sat.
Room 8(E) ［#1216］ presentation in English
Chair: Takashi SUGIMOTO (Osaka University)
1. From perception to modality: Semantic-pragmatic changes of visual adjectives
in English and Japanese.

Mika SHINDO (Kyoto University)

2. Synonyms according to situational types.
Irena SRDANOVIC ERJAVEC and Kikuko NISHINA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)(10 minute break)
Chair: Yoshihisa NAKAMURA (Kanazawa University)
3. A meta-metaphor: Metaphor and influenza.

Lihan PANG (Meikai University)

4. From funeral to wedding ceremony: Change in the metaphoric nature of the Chinese colourterm white.

RECEPTION （18:00～）

Ying WANG (Dalian Maritime University/ Konan Women's University)

Cafeteria No. 2 at Kosei Kita Bldg
(Fee: 4,000 JPY)

Dec 9, Sun.

Lecture Sessions 2 (9:00～11:30)[Bldg 1, 2nd fl.]1. 09:00～09:35

2. 09:35～10:10

3. 10:20～10:55

4. 10:55～11:30

Room 1(J) ［#1209］ presentation in Japanese
Chair: Satoshi KINSUI (Osaka University)
1. The diversity of kedo's uses based on cognitive process through the contiguity ofdenial of expectation and contrast.

ESCOUTE Jean David (Osaka University)

2. A study of Japanese subjective adverb ’hontou’.

YAMAMOTO Hiroko (Chubu University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Yoshihiro NISHIMITSU (Kobe University)
3. Noun modification and semantic interpretation of Japanese NP-V idioms:
The case of “kao(face)/me(eye)/te(hand) wo V”.

Tomoyuki TSUCHIYA (Kyoto University)

4. Parentheticals in English, Japanese and Mongolian.

BAI Arong (Nara Women’s University)Dec 9, Sun.
Room 2(J) ［#1210］ presentation in Japanese
Chair: Seiji UCHIDA (Nara Women's University)
1. Semantic properties of adjectives of tough constructions and adverbs of middle constructionsin English.

Shungo KANAZAWA (Iwate Prefectural University)

2. A preliminary study of there amalgam construction.
Tomomi TOSHIOKA (Kyoto University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Ei-ichi YAMASAKI (International Buddhist University)
3. A functional approach to pragmatic aspects of no more than.
Daisuke SUZUKI (Kyoto University)
4. Discourse constraints on presentational-there construction in English.
Shizuka UTSUBOE (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Room 3(J) ［#1211］ presentation in Japanese
Chair: Takashi SUGIMOTO (Osaka University)
1. Grounding and domain of discourse: The case of French present form in curriculum vitae.
Ayako KISHI (Kyoto University)
2. Associative anaphora in French：A view from subjectification.
Yuki DEGUCHI (Kyoto University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Yoshihisa NAKAMURA (Kanazawa University)
3. Interactive practices for referent recognition in Japanese conversation.
Ayumi SUGA (Nara Women’s University)
4. The function of projecting mental processes as Mental Space Builders in psychotherapy.
Sumi KATO (Aomori Chuo Gakuin University)

Room 4(J) ［#1212］ presentation in Japanese
Chair: Eiichi YAMAMOTO (Kansai University)
1. Observation of misunderstanding: A new method for utterance interpretation mechanism.
Noriko NAGAI (Ibaraki University)
2. The relationship between the pronunciations and functions of I don’t think.
Sadashi MORI (Fukui National College of Technology)(10 minute break)
Chair: Masao TAKAJI (Former Professor, Miyazaki Municipal University)
3. About a viewpoint in Japanese and the Korean.
Youngja CHEON (Wakayama University)
4. How jibun refers.

WANG Yu (Nagoya University)Dec 9, Sun.
Room 5(E) ［#1213］ presentation in English
Chair: Lawrence SCHOURUP (Osaka Prefecture University)
1. Towards a relevance-account of possessives in English.
Martin AITKEN (Copenhagen Business School)
2. An implicature-based account of the choice of anaphoric forms.
Koichi NISHIDA (Tohoku University)

Room 6(E) ［#1214］ presentation in English
Chair: Susumu KUBO (Matsuyama University)
1. A speaker's 'ego' attitudes toward self and others involved in agree/disagree responses
toward accusation in one's miscommunication and mistake situations.
Sachiko KIYAMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
and Katsuo TAMAOKA (Hiroshima University)
2. The effect of age and gender on the use of request strategies in preschool
Cantonese-speaking children.

Cheung Shing LEUNG (University of Hong Kong),
Yuen Fan Lornita WONG (Hong Kong Polytechnic University),
and Chung Wa Naska LAW (University of Hong Kong)(10 minute break)
Chair: Masa-aki YAMANASHI (Kyoto University)
3. Some resources for arguing, Japanese style.
Scott SAFT (University of Hawaii at Hilo)

Room 7(E) ［#1215］ presentation in English
Chair: Reiko HAYASHI (Konan Women's University)
1. Perspectives and Causal Clauses in English and Japanese.
Ryoko UNO (University of Tokyo)
2. A pragmatic analysis of thanking episodes on a university campus in Tokyo.
Jun OHASHI (University of Melbourne)(10 minute break)
Chair: Keiko MATSUKI (Doshisha University)
3. A critical discourse analysis of minority language planning: A case of Ulster Scots.
Yasuko YAMADA (Lancaster University)
4. Trivialization, generalization, and semanticization in the representation of"comfort women" issues.

Yumiko OHARA (University of Hawaii at Hilo)Dec 9, Sun.
Room 8(E) ［#1216］ presentation in English
Chair: Naoya TASHIRO (Kansai Gaidai University)
1. Coherence in L1 and L2 writings: A comparative study between NNE (Japanese)and NE (British) students.

Aika MIURA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

2. Junior high school textbook vocabulary: An analysis of word frequency.
Ron MARTIN (Temple University Japan)(10 minute break)
Chair: Eiichi YAMAMOTO (Kansai University)
3. Getting let in: The role of learner agency in gaining access to affordances in an intermediate
JFL classroom.

Cade BUSHNELL (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

4. Effects of gender-identity and gender-congruence on levels of response politeness.
Katsuo TAMAOKA (Hiroshima University),
Hyunjung LIM (Yamaguchi Prefectural University),and Yayoi MIYAOKA (Hiroshima University of Economics)

Room 9(E) ［#1217］ presentation in English
Chair: Harumi SAWADA (Kansai Gaidai University)
1. Subjectivity and intersubjectivity manifested in gestural deixis and directionality.
Mika ISHINO (University of Chicago)
2. Japanese mo and Korean to in even-like usages: What Gricean Maxims tells us
to optimize in a scalar model.

Sachiko SHUDO (Waseda University)(10 minute break)
Chair: Yoshihiro NISHIMITSU (Kobe University)
3. Pragmatic interpretations of some troublesome Chinese syntactic constructions
against pertinent English data.

Xiong XUELIANG (Fudan University)

Keynote Lecture 2 （11:40～13:10）[Multimedia Hall at Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.]
Chair: Osamu TAKAHARA (Professor Emeritus, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp)
Context and Structure in a Theory of Pragmatics.

Dec 9, Sun.
Keynote Lecture 3 （14:00～15:30）[Multimedia Hall at Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.]
Chair: Masa-aki YAMANASHI (Kyoto University)

Ziran He (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
On Memes and Memetics in Language.

Symposium （15:40～18:10）[Multimedia Hall at Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.]Pragmatics in a Wider Perspective
Organizer: Yoshihiro NISHIMITSU (Kobe University)

Speakers & Titles:
Yoshihiko IKEGAMI (Showa Women's University/ University of Tokyo)
Pragmatics, Semiotics, and Cognitive Linguistics: 'Meaning' as a Triadic Relationship

Sachiko IDE (Japan Women's University)
Emancipatory Pragmatics:
How and Why It Could Contribute for the Sustainable Global Community.
Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp)
Pragmatic Steps to an Ecology of the Public Sphere.
Commentator:
Ziran HE (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)

Closing Ceremony (18:１0～18:15)

Chair:
1. Closing SpeechMultimedia Hallat Library and Media Center (Bldg 5), 1st fl.

Eiichi YAMAMOTO (Secretariat, PSJ)
Masa-aki YAMANASHI (Vice President, PSJ)Program Planning Committee:
Takashi Sugimoto, Seiji Uchida, Yuji Nishiyama, Haruhiko Yamaguchi
Conference Executive Committee:
Haruhiko Yamaguchi, Guoyue Peng, Naoya Tashiro, Yu-Wei
Kansai Gaidai University Conference Committee:
Harumi Sawada, Naoya Tashiro, Yu-Wei, Motoko Hori, Junko Kobayashi, Katsunori Kotani, Yoshikazu
Okamoto, Shunichiro Nagatomo
Cooperation from (and many thanks to):Graduate students at Kansai Gaidai University, St. Andrew's University, and Kobe City University ofForeign Studies

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