Etsuko Oishi

Etsuko Oishi is a professor of linguistics at Tokyo University of Science. She has been working on Austinian speech act theory, and published papers on expositives, indexicality, evidentiality and modality, and discourse markers in Intercultural Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics and Pragmatics and Society. She contributed her paper of apologies to Handbooks of Pragmatics, The Pragmatics of Speech Actions (edited by Marina Sbisà and Ken Turner). She is the co-editor (with Anita Fetzer) of Context and Contexts: Parts Meet Whole? (John Benjamins 2011).