This study observes how graduate students develop their learner agency of intercultural competence in a course aiming to build their metapragmatic awareness of Japanese culture... Read More

This study investigates how Japanese college students changed their views of things through their six-month internship/study abroad experiences, by analysing their interviews pre- and post-internship/study... Read More

The author’s research across the year found that the use of sibling names, such as ‘oniichan (elder brother)’ and ‘oneechan (elder sisiter)’ in conversational use... Read More

The presentation aims to explore the concept of native-speakerism in Japan, shedding light on its crucial connections with the pragmatic features of the language. Language... Read More

The grammaticalized honorific system in Japanese forces speakers to indicate obligatorily the salient social feature of the interaction in terms of social hierarchy and distance... Read More

Conversational humour is claimed to be a useful skill in social interactions, which may be deployed in accomplishing various social actions. Previous research has shown... Read More

The discourse surrounding veg*ns and partial-veg*ns is marked by controversy, discrimination, and profound ideological exploration. Specifically, while omnivores discriminate against veg*ns, these latter often demonstrate... Read More

Research into conversational humour has found that it is a significant strategy for fostering relationships and challenging power between colleagues in the workplace, but to... Read More

Humorous narratives, characterised as an extended period of talk in which a participant relays an event containing humorous incongruity (Archakis & Tsakona, 2012), are a... Read More

The ‘jocular quip’, although it has no great currency amongst linguists, is a happily sonorous piece of terminology worthy of further exploration. First described and... Read More