The 14th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan (PSJ 14)
Conference Site: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (http://www.kufs.ac.jp)
Dates: December 3-4, 2011
Contact Person: Hiroaki Tanaka
Contact Email: psj.secretary@gmail.com
PSJ URL: http://www.pragmatics.gr.jp/index.html
PSJ is an annual pragmatics conference in Japan and has invited many researchers
from all over the world for 14 years. On 3.11, this year, unfortunately, Japan was hit by
Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and its subsequent Fukushima Nuclear Plant
problem. First and foremost, we are going to hold a special symposium on “disasters andcommunication”, discussing how we should face a disastrous crisis off-handedly, without
any communicative means, causing harmful rumors. Second, this year’s main issue ofPSJ is how we are involved with other fields of disciplines related to pragmatics. Oneplenary lecture(John Du Bois, UCSB) and one symposium will be held with regard tothis end.
Invited lecturer: John Du Bois (UCSB)
Registration:
You do not need to register via our website. Program, abstracts and proceedings of thelast year’s conference of the workshop will be available at the conference reception site
for registered and non-registered person. Registration fees are 2,000 yen for members
and 3,000 yen for non-members, and the yearly member fees are 5,000 yen for regulars
and 4,000 yen for students, which are payable at the reception desk by cash. We do not
accept credit card, etc.
Accommodation
We do not offer any accommodation. Please search and book the hotel that isreasonable for you by way of hotel information site such as:•Rakuten Travel (English website)
http://travel.rakuten.com/•Jalan net (English website)
http://www.jalan.net/en/japan_hotels_ryokan/?cc=eng_top_link

Organizers:
Masa-aki Yamanashi (President, Kyoto University)
Susumu Kubo (Vice-President, Matsuyama University)
Hiroaki Tanaka (Secretary-General, Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Hajime Nozawa (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Lawrence Schourup (Osaka Prefecture University)
Sachiko Takagi (Accountant, Osaka Prefecture University)
Takuo Hayashi (Editor in Chief, Momoyama Gakuin University)
Harumi Sawada (Kansai Gaidai University)
Reiko Hayashi (Konan Women’s University)
Takuro Moriyama (Kyoto University of Education)
Yoshihiro Nishimitsu (Kobe University)
Kairi Igarashi (Ryukoku University)
Isao Higashimori (Ryukoku University)
Tetsuharu Koyama (Notre Dam Women’s University)
Hideo Tominaga (Hyogo Prefecture University)
Tohru Hiratsuka (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Yukiko Moriyama (Doshisha Women’s University)
Mitsuyo Suzuki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Shun-ichiro Nagatomo (Kansai Gaidai University)
Shigehiro Haruki (Kinki University)
Yu Wei (Kansai Gaidai University)
Ippei Inoue (Keio University)
Seiji Uchida (Nara Women’s University)
Yuji Nishiyama (Meikai University)
Haruhiko Yamaguchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Shigehiro Kato (Hokkaido University)
Toshiyuki Kanamaru (Kyoto University)
We are looking forward to seeing you soon.
Hiroaki Tanaka
Secretary-General, PSJ
Kyoto Institute of Technology14th Conference of PSJ Program Information
Day 1: Dec. 3, 2011
10:00-12:00
Special symposium: “Disasters and Communication” (Open to all the people who haveinterests in the theme, talked in Japanese)
Chair: Takuro Moriyama (Kyoto University of Education)
Yoshinao Najima (Tohoku University): Was language lost? --How does it consider"telling"?
Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University): Natural Language Processing Technologies toSupport Credibility Judgment of Information
Toshiko Kikkawa (Keio University): Risk communications after 3.11 earthquake
13:00-13:30
General Meeting: Chair: Hiroaki Tanaka (Secretary-General, Kyoto Institute ofTechnology)
Opening Remarks: Masa-aki Yamanashi (President of PSJ, Kyoto University)
13:35-16:00
Room 1 (Japanese)
1. "Cyau" contraction in Japanese: from a pragmatic point of view. Yuhua Chang (KyotoUniversty)
2. The Emergence of New Constructions Based on the Constructional Pattern of
Existential Sentences --"Uru (to sell)" and "Yaru (to do)" as Intransitive Verbs-- MihoOnishi (Nagoya University)
3. A pragmatic factor concerning semantic extension of Japanese verb “Moru”as slangof young people. Katsunori Kanzawa (Kyoto University)
Room 2 (English)
1.'Mummy, I really, really saw a ghost in the school toilet!' A study of children's
pragmatic competence and evaluation of persuasive discourse Dawn Teo Siew Hui(National University of Singapore)
2. Identity in practice: the use of terminological resources and identity formation atconversation analytic data sessions in Japan

BUSHNELL, Cade (University ofTsukuba)
3. Okay in the pre-second position in Q&A sessions of international scientific conferencepresentations

OKADA,Yusuke (Ritsumeikan University)

4. Metalinguistic Negation in Dhaasanac

NISHIGUCHI, Sumiyo (Tokyo University ofScience)
Room 3 (Japanese)
1.Word choice:differences between two reflexive pronouns. Yu Wang(Tokyo FukushiUniversity)
2.How generic you is used when you talk about yourself. Hitoshi Nakayama(Fukushima
Prefecture Medical Uiversity
3. ‘Shiteiru’ of future perfect and speaker's consideration for the hearer. Yumiko Uehara(Kanda Gaigo University)
Room 4 (Japanese)
1. On ‘no doubt’ Yoshikazu Okamoto (Kanazawa Seiryo University)
2. On the Discourse Function of No doubt: Evidence from a Questionnaire Survey.
Daisuke Suzuki (Kyoto University)and Takashi Fujiwara(Kinki University)
3. Semantics of opposite and its functional interpretation.Naohiko Kurokawa (OsakaInstitute of Technology)
4. Japanese Connective Particle "to" and Indonesian Conjunction "begitu, ketika, kalau"-- A Contrastive Analysis of Use and Theme-Rheme Consideration -.Tiwuk
Ikhtiari(Kyoto University)
Room 5 Workshop (Japanese)
Representations of “identity” in media discourse: Analyses of career women,‘herbivorous boys’ and fathers & mothers. Sachiko Takagi(Osaka PrefectureUnibversity), Yasuko Kanda(Osaka Gakuin University), Tomoyo, Inenaga(HokurikuUniversity)
Plenary Lecture (16:20-18:20)
Chair: Ryoko Suzuki (Keio University)
Lecturer: John W. DU BOIS (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title: Empathy for syntax
Abstract: Is it possible to have empathy for syntax? The idea doesn't seem promising.
We seem to be mixing two different things, if we try to combine an emotion (or affectiveorientation) with a grammatical apparatus. The widespread conceptualization ofgrammar as a machine doesn't seem to leave much room for any emotion, least of allempathy. Some cracks in the generative position have appeared, however, notably in
Susumu Kuno's important early suggestions about empathy /in/ syntax, which at leasthints that there could be something going on between these two.
But I want to go further, to ask: Is it /necessary/to have empathy for syntax? That is,
do speakers actually /need/to draw on the human capacity for empathy in order to beable to do syntax, in the particular ways that humans do it? I will look at some of thecomplex and subtle syntactic structures and strategies that speakers create as they
perform syntax in everyday life, when they are left to their own goals and devices,
asking what role empathy might play, if any. I explore the question of empathy as agrounding for syntactic production in light of two theories which I have been developing
in recent years: dialogic syntax and stance. Based on these theories and the empiricalevidence they allow us to identify, I will suggest that there are actually quite powerfulforces that link empathy and syntax. I will address the relation between the emergenceof emotion in interaction and the ways that participants construct the sociocognitive
relations of intersubjectivity via dialogic resonance and stance alignment. If time allows,
I will bring in some recent joint work (with Peter Hobson and Jessica Hobson) on the
discourse of children with autism, in which problems in establishing intersubjective
relations seem to underlie atypical patterns of syntactic production. As a report on workin progress, this presentation will surely raise more questions than it answers; the goalis rather to open a discussion of the possibility that empathy plays a critical role ingrounding the process of making language together, with special implications forsyntax.
Dinner Party (18:80-) 4,000 yen

Day 2: Dec. 4, 2011
10:00-12:25
Room 5 (Japanese)
1. A Semantic and Pragmatic Constraint on the Subject Referent of Implicit Theme
Resultative Constructions. Yasuhiro Tsushima(Sapporo University)
2.A semantic approach to the complement distribution of the English copulative
perception

verb

construction:

Fromtheviewpointofdifferences

ofattribute/state-describing predicates and situation-describing predicates. FuminoriNakamura(Keio University)
3. The hierarchy of deictic center in deixis. Jun Sawada (Kansai Gaidai University)
4. Sayaka Sugiyama (Kyoto University)

Room 6 (English)
1.Mentalcausality

inBECAUSE/SINCE/IF

grammar-pragmatics interface

clauses:Acase

studyofKATAOKA, Hirohito (Osaka Dental University)

2.Allo-repetition to develop the story: From storytellers to story-recipients in English
narratives. UCHIDA, Lala (Tokyo Denki University)(Japanese)
3. Anaphoric Usage of zhe and na in Narratives -From the Perspective of Discourse
Internal Structure. Biao Liu(KyotoUniversity)
4. Yusuke Ishimaru (Yuri Gakuin)
Room 7 (Japanese)
1. Perception of Numbers in Scientific Discourse in the Mass Media: Focusing on
Metaphorical Thought. Yumi Deguchi(Kansai University)
2. Kyoko Arai (Toyo University)
3. Interpretive Use of Discourse Markers Introducing Direct Quote Structures inEnglish. Masatoshi Konno(Tohoku University)
Room 8 (English)
1. Language and power in the blogs of freshman students of MSU-IIT: a critical
discourse analysis. POLITO, Rabindranath (Mindanao State University--Iligan
Institute of Technology)
2. Metaphorical promising: Joint construction of political speech. NILEP, Chad (NagoyaUniversity)
3. Modal concord in Japanese: Some initial observations

LARM,Lars(LundUniversity)
4.

Addressing

syntacticissues

semantically/pragmatically:island-(in)sensitivity in Japanese cleft constructions

Acase

SERAKU,

studyofTohru(University of Oxford)
Poster Session: 12:25-14:30
1. Pragmatic environment of "has gone" and "is gone" and their semantic motivations.
Maki Iwata (Kyoto University
2, Resonance and Sequence in Interaction. Yoshihito Izawa(Keio University)
3. Junko Katsuta (Nagoya University)
4. Building relationships between helpers and users when bathing, in a caring

environment ―Examining Speech Level Shift and Positive Politeness Strategies―
Tomoko Furuta(Nagoya University) and Kaoru Horie (Nagoya University)
5. Yuya Okawa (Sapporo University)
6. Why is main clause negation (e.g. I don't {think/believe} (that) p) dominant oversubordinate clause negation (e.g. I {think/believe} (that) ¬p)? Sadashi Mori(Fukui Kogyo
Senmon Gakko)
7.Asako Nakano (Kansai University)
8.

WhatdoJapanesehonorifics

convey?

--A

Relevance-based

approach

KOIZUMI, Yuko (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
9. Masashi Okamoto (Seisen Women’s University) and Mika Enomoto (Tokyo Universityof Technology)
10. Tone-of-voice in Japanese

CAMPANA, Mark (Kobe City University of ForeignStudies)
11. The meaning of the diminutive shift in Japanese: Its dimensionality, regularity and12. pragmatic effect

SAWADA, Osamu (Mie University)

13.

Conceptual

Miscommunication:

StructureandPrototype.

Katsunobu

14.

Izutsu(Hokkaido University of Education) and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu(FujiWomen’sUniversity)
15. On the Relationship between "the Constraints on Extraposition from NP" and"Reference". Tomoya Nakata (Kyoto University)
Symposium 14:30-17:00 Room 1 (English)
Aspects of Meaning in Discourse: Towards Interdisciplinary Pragmatic Research
Chair：Lawrence Schourup (Osaka Prefecture University)
Designated Discussant：John Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara)
1. Embodied action in interaction: A conversation analytic approach to action-formation.
Aug Nishizaka (Meiji Gakuin University)
Abstract: In 1968, Harvey Sacks proposed a policy for studying action-formation in thefollowing way: first locate recognizable action in actual interactional data, and thenproceed to elucidate the procedures that the participants in the interaction employ togenerate that recognizable action.

In this study, through the analysis of thevideo-taped interaction between healthcare providers and pregnant women in regularprenatal checkups, I explore a set procedures for the formation of a particular action
type, i.e., problem-presentation.

As I demonstrated elsewhere (Nishizaka, 2010),

though the healthcare provider does not solicit a pregnant woman to present particular
problems at the beginning of each of her visits, there are still sequential positions

systematically provided for pregnant women's raising their concerns. I elucidate theconstruction of the action at one of such positions, i.e., at the point where anexamination or measurement is incipient, and discuss an implicitly involved dilemma.
Reference: Nishizaka, A. 2010. Self-initiated problem presentation in prenatal
checkups. ROLSI 43(3).
2. "Trading places" and intersubjective understanding of spatial perspectives. Kuniyoshi
Kataoka (Aichi University)
Abstract: In this presentation, by focusing on the multimodal realization of spatialrelations through language and the body, I will examine the ways in which mutual
understanding was intersubjectively achieved in a continuous discussion of uncertain
routes and landmarks by rock climbers. The key notion here is “trading places” (Duranti2010), which emanates from a phenomenological merger of multiple perspectives
through the intersubjective comprehension of narrated scenes. In order to specify theprocesses that make it possible, I first elaborate on the types of perspective-taking anddefine “intersubjective” perspectives in terms of previous findings on “frames ofreference” (Levinson 2003). Based on that definition, I will show that (1) theparticipants eventually came to employ differential controls of language and the bodydepending on their experiential status in the narrated scene, and that (2)intersubjective understanding triggered a language-body split, which dialecticallyencompassed the ego- and allo-centric perspectives merged into one. Such a perspective
was found to be used only by the “knowing” expert, suggesting that that particularintersubjective perspective was not inherently given but collaboratively achieved insitu.
References: (1) Duranti, Alessandro (2010). Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology.
Anthropological Theory 10(1), 1-20.

(2) Levinson, Stephen C. (2003) Space inLanguage and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
3. Utterances in real time: Where interaction and cognition meet.

YasuharuDen(Chiba University)
Abstract: Utterances in spontaneous discourse are produced and comprehended in realtime. Although some language-related research fields, including conversation analysis
and psycholinguistics, have paid attention to this aspect of language, this view has notbeen central in linguistics. In this talk, I present my recent studies on the real-time
construction of utterances, based on the corpus-linguistic methodology, focusing on howthe initial and final portions of spontaneous utterances are being produced andcomprehended in real time. I show that fillers and restarts at the utterance-initialposition are not just disfluencies, but may serve as instantaneous commitment to a newturn, simultaneously dealing with the cognitive load of planning an utterance. I also
illustrate how various kinds of resources at the utterance-final position, whether
syntactic, prosodic, or non-verbal, are utilized for undelayed transition between turns,
putting particular emphasis on the case of overlapping speech. Through these studies, Idiscuss how people solve interactional and cognitive problems at the same time and how
our language is designed to fit such purpose.
Closing Remarks: Masa-aki Yamanashi (Kyoto University) Susumu Kubo (MatsuyamaUniversity)