Dr Shimako Iwasaki - Researcher Profile

Biography

Shimako works in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University as a Lecturer in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Shimako specialises in conversation analysis and studies of cross-cultural multimodal interactions.

Keywords

Conversation analysis, Japanese, Language and social interaction

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: univ of california los angeles

Year awarded: 2008

Publications

Book Chapters

Iwasaki, S., 2011, The multimodal mechanics of collaborative unit construction in Japanese conversation, in Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World, eds Jurgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 106-120.

Iwasaki, S., 2008, Emphatic constructions of utterance units in conversation: looking at the various aspects of talk from the perspective of "drawing in" phenomenon and rethinking the nature of the listener, in The Sentence and Utterance Series Vol. 2: Sentence and Utterances as 'Units', eds Shuya Kushida, Toshiyuki Sadanobu and Yasuharu Den, Hitsuji Shobo, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 169-220.

Iwasaki, S., 2007, Construction of units and interactive turn spaces in Japanese conversation, in Japanese / Korean Linguistics, eds Naomi Hanaoka McGloin and Junko Mori, CSLI Publications, USA, pp. 67-80.

Journal Articles

Iwasaki, S., 2009, Initiating interactive turn spaces in Japanese conversation: local projection and collaborative action, Discourse Processes [P], vol 46, issue 2, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, USA, pp. 226-246.