An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA and The 11th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing

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Announcements

• Online Registration
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  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63786
• Dates and Venue

Dates	December 10th Saturday and December 11th Sunday, 2011
Venue	Rooms 303 / 304 /305 of Building 8, Waseda University

• program

  Day 1: December 10th, Saturday

  09:00-09:20 preparations / registration 09:20-12:30 session 1: The 11th Korea-Japan Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing moderator Glen Stockwell 09:20-09:40 Atsushi Ito and Yasunari Harada Opening: Location-sensitive File Access Control: an ICT Application of Formal Linguistics [slides] 09:40-10:40 Winnie Cheng Invited: Company Brochures: The Self and the Other in Semantic Categories [slides] [paper] The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/019-032.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 10:40-11:40 Jong-Bok Kim Invited: Korean Cleft Constructions and Interactions with the Information-Structure of Copula Constructions [slides] 11:40-12:40 Stanley Peters Invited: Common Sense Entailment and Shared Place [slides] 12:40-13:30 lunch break 13:30-16:20 session 2 moderator Sachiko Ide 13:30-15:00 Masayuki Otsuka Special Key Note: On BA Theory (in Japanese with translation into English) [paper in English] [paper in Japanese] The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/010-017.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 15:00-15:40 Yoko Fujii Differences of Situating Self in the Field/Ba of Interaction between the Japanese and American English Speakers [slides] 15:40-16:20 Yasuhiro Katagiri Modeling cultural factors in human interactions: an attempt in linguistics of BA 16:20-16:40 break 16:40-18:20 session 3 moderator Stanley Peters 16:40-17:20 Sachiko Ide and Kishiko Ueno BA-oriented perspective and language practice [slides] 17:20-18:20 Hideyuki Nakashima Invited: Can we Really Share BA in our Conversation? [slides] 18:20-18:30 wrap up and clean up 19:30-21:30 further discussion

  Day 2: December 11th, Sunday

  10:00-12:00 session 4 moderator Yasunari Harada 10:00-10:40 André Włodarczyk Invited: Distributed Semantics with Pragmatic Issues 10:40-11:20 Hélène Włodarczyk Invited: Information Centering: Subjecthood and Topicality The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/001-009.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 11:20-12:00 Jae-Woong Choe, Sachiko Shudo and Yasunari Harada Relations R Us: Semantics and Pragmatics of Adnominal Constructions in Korean and Japanese [slides] 12:00-13:00 lunch break 13:00-15:40 session 5 moderator Yasuhiro Katagiri 13:00-13:40 Sachiko Shudo Limits for Accommodation for Presupposition: Mutual Assumptions, Mutual Knowledge and Politeness [slides] 13:40-14:20 Makiko Takekuro Spatial Description as Intersubjective Activity: Examples from Ishigaki [slides] The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/033-043.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 14:20-15:00 Kei Yoshimoto The Japanese Sentence Structure and Its Dependence on BA [slides] 15:00-15:40 Kazuo Sakai and Ken Kuriyama Toward the Visualization of Emergence by Discourse Analysis [slides] 15:40-16:10 coffee break 16:10-17:50 session 6 moderator Makiko Takekuro 16:10-16:40 Daisuke Yokomori Subordinators as Interactional Resources: A study on Stand-Alone Adverbial Clauses in Japanese Conversation [slides] 16:40-17:10 Kanako Maebo Vocabulary and Modality in Weekly Magazine Column Articles: Adverbs and Sentence-Final Expressions The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/059-067.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 17:10-17:40 Ayako Namba From Listenership to Identity Construction: Situated Laughter Activities in Japanese Conversational Interaction The published version of this presentation is available at: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/publication/2017/069-078.pdf via http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/lob/ 17:40-17:50 Sachiko Ide and all others Closing Remarks 17:50-18:00 wrap up and clean up 19:00-21:00 further discussion

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• Topics

  topic(0)	linguistics and natural language processing	syntax, semantics and pragmatics natural language processing corpus linguistics
  topic(1)	theory and philosophy of BA	philosophical grounding theoretical grounding
  topic(2)	semantics and pragmatics of BA	natural language knowledge representation

• Supported in part by:

  Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research	21652041	Toward Construction of Linguistics of BA: Semantics and Pragmatics of BA
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)	23320090	Co-creation of BA in Language Use: The construction of a pragmatic theory from the indigenous perspectives of native speakers
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)	23520527	Toward Construction of Theory of BA for Language and Communication: For Solving Problems in Modern Societies
  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)	23520475	A New Approach to Presupposition: Analysis of Marginal Cases of Presupposition Manipulation

• Jointly hosted by:

  Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University

  Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University

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related talks

• December 19th, 2011
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2011-12-19-j.html
• December 20th, 2011
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2011-12-20-j.html

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abstracts

• Location-sensitive File Access Control: an ICT Application of Formal Linguistics
  In this talk Yasunari Harada will discuss how theoretical linguistics conceptualizations related to context and situatedness helped him in coming up with real-life technological enhancement for learning and teaching. As an example, Atsushi Ito will describe a patented technological development for location-sensitive data-access control.
• Company Brochures: The Self and the Other in Semantic Categories
  The study examined a corpus of company brochures from the websites of major engineering companies in Hong Kong. It identified the move structure of the brochures, followed by the key semantic categories specific to the moves. It was found that pronouns are used in certain semantic categories in certain moves in the company brochures. The paper aims to examine the functions of the pronouns in expressing the self and the other in the company brochures in engineering companies which reflect the broader communicative purposes that characterise the genre of company brochures.
• Korean Cleft Constructions and Interactions with the Information-Structure of Copula Constructions
  The Korean noun kes (�ething, fact�f) has a variety of uses. Among these, it can be involved in different types of constructions which appear to be counterparts of clefts and pseudoclefts in English, and these are the focus of our paper. These cleft-like uses of kes also involve the copula, and we argue in this paper that the kes-constructions simply inherit the information structure properties of copular clauses, and have no special syntax of their own. The key aspects in the analysis of kes are (i) whether the phrase that it heads is referential or not and (ii) where the partition in the copular clause between GIVEN and NEW information falls.
• Common Sense Entailment and Shared Place
  What listeners take a speaker to intend that they infer from his utterances depends on shared meaning, assumptions, context, and linguistic practices. This talk examines this issue in interaction among communicating subjects in the context of Nishida Kitaro-'s philosophy. A recent revival of attempts to characterize the untutored intuitions of competent language users about what follows from statements could deepen theorizing about how common sense entailment connects with a number of related notions: deductive consequence, presupposition, conversational implicature, etc.
• On BA Theory
  There have been Thought of BA in East World from ancient times. Distinguish feature of BA-thinking is non-separation of subject and object ,also non-separation of the self and the other .The modern period grasps that subject is different from object and that the self is kept in isolation from the other. Free will thinks that object moves necessarily with causal relationship. The other is objective thing for the self. But Quantum Field Theory and Brain Science teach us that subject can't be separated clearly from object and that the self and the other are combined deeply. There is Place (BA) originally where subject and object interact and where the self and the other work coherently. From the place subject and object are born, also the self and the other come into being. This is BA-thinking and this thought is philosophy of BA. You must stand by BA-thinking if you want to create computer of like human brain.
• Differences of Situating Self in the Field / BA of Interaction between the Japanese and American English Speakers
  This study first presents culturally determined principles for interaction in which mutual consent is established in Japanese and American English, specifically focusing on the linguistic behavior of proposing ideas and co-constructing a story. Then, based on the results obtained, this study explicates that the Americans situate themselves separately from the other in the interaction, where a oneself-vs.-the-other facing relationship can be observed. On the other hand, the Japanese participants situate themselves as if they are entraining themselves, and they resonate each other. The boundary of self disappears and merges as if self and other had one mind. Then, it is argued that the way of situating and relating oneself with the other in the place of interaction in Japanese can be interpreted by a frame of thinking of 'ba'. Lastly, referential shifting from the first person pronoun to the second person pronoun in Japanese is presented as another pragmatic and interactional phenomenon that can be explicated by the idea of ba.
• Modeling cultural factors in human interactions: an attempt in linguistics of BA
  People with different cultural backgrounds have different styles in their practice in conversational interactions. A comparative examination of Japanese, English and Arabic dialogues in Mister O corpus, cross-linguistic data collected under a common task setting is presented. A parametric conception for capturing their differences is then proposed as an intermediate level theory connecting the general human cognitive capacities and the historical idiosyncrasies in interactions. Possible contribution to the idea of "Linguistics of BA'" is also discussed.
• BA-oriented perspective and language practice
  This study employs BA-theory and discusses the language practices in task-oriented discourse data. BA-based approach is an innovating frame of thinking device that assumes 1) inside viewpoint instead of outside/objective viewpoint for the speech event, 2) dual mode thinking of the self, 3) a dynamic model of interaction like an improvised drama and 4) two modes of communication, i.e. overt and covert. The focus of discussion is on the language practices of repetition, simultaneous utterances, and chaining utterances, which occur after the sudden drop of presupposed use of modalities such as honorifics and sentence final particles. These practices serve to synchronize the interactants and to entrain themselves, resulting in arise of covert communication which would create a setting for smooth overt communication. It would be discussed that it is only by the ?ba? theory based approach to discourse that will illuminate the dynamic processes of task-oriented collaboration.
• Can we Really Share BA in our Conversation?
  There are several theories on the constraints of successful communication, such as Grice's conversation maxims. Although such theories are good (but partial) description of good successful conversation, they are all described from the theorist viewpoint. The participants of the very conversation do not have access to such viewpoint. They can just ``assume'' that the other is following the rule. Actual conversation is carried out embedded in BA. Participants have only limited amount of information and local viewpoints. Therefore, they must follow different conversational tactics. I will quote Japanese Rakugo ``Kon'nyaku mondou (devils tongue conversation}'' to illustrate my point.
• Distributed Semantics with Pragmatic Issues
  On top of logical inference (reason), such psychological factors as attention, intention and emotion interplay as much in the processes of meaning creation as in that of communication. The Distributed Grammar is therefore a complex view of language which emerged as the result of a multi-level investigation into the sequential (linear) ordering of the constituents of linguistic utterances focusing on the fact that the sequential nature of language reflects the semantico-pragmatic overt (cf. explicature) and covert (cf. implicature) components of communicated information. It is an integrated framework for Associative Semantics (AS) and Meta-Informative Centering (MIC) theory.
• Information Centering: Subjecthood and Topicality
  The concept of centre of attention (CA) is used in the Distributed Grammar focusing on its relevance for the syntax of human languages. Based on psychological evidence, this notion captures what is common between subject, topic and theme in an integrated system of concepts rather than as a disparate collection of them. We define respectively subject as the main CA of a base utterance, topic as the main CA of an extended utterance (containing both Old and New meta-informative status) and theme as the main (composite) CA of a text/discourse. When choosing an entity or an element of the semantic situation as the CA of the utterance a speaker creates a common ground which makes it possible to communicate with the addressee.
• Relations R Us: Semantics and Pragmatics of Adnominal Constructions in Korean and Japanese
  Syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Japanese and Korean show "striking similarities" especially in view of the fact that there is no compelling evidence to show that the two languages are historically related the way some European languages, such as Spanish and Italian, are. On the other hand, we also notice unexpected differences. Contrastive studies of the two languages may contribute directly to the understanding of the "universal nature" of language faculty. Such similarities also pertain in the way two nouns (phrases) are combined to form a larger nominal expression. In a previous study, we reported some commonalities and differences between the two languages in this respect. Here, we discuss how relation R may be induced.
• How to Manipulate Highly Intersubjective Constraints for Politeness
  Speakers sometimes choose to use a presupposition trigger even though the presuppositional condition is not satisfied by the context prior to the utterance. One of the major reasons for such 'presupposition manipulation' is 'politeness' (Brown and Levinson 1978). While manipulating some presupposition triggers can be easily 'accommodated' (Lewis1979), which generates the expected politeness effect, some other presupposition triggers are so highly intersubjective that manipulating these may have a negative effect in terms of politeness.
• Spatial Description as Intersubjective Activity: Examples from Ishigaki
  Based on data collected during field visits to Ishigaki Island (the main island of the Yaeyama Islands, the southernmost of several island groups, making up the prefecture of Okinawa, Japan), this study explores how speakers in Ishigaki express space. Findings of the study show that speakers in Ishigaki change their spatial frame of reference (FoR) depending on interlocutors�f background and that they often choose a FoR that is most convenient to interlocutors. This study argues that describing space, especially giving directions is an intersubjectively negotiated experience in interaction.
• The Japanese Sentence Structure and Its Dependence on BA
  This talk explicates that the Japanese sentence is structured approximately with four layers that reflect different scopes of pieces of information constituting the sentence meaning. Examples are taken from topic/subject coreference and tense interpretation in complex sentences. It is shown how the outer layers linked to the context exerts influence on the sentence interpretation.
• Toward the Visualization of Emergence by Discourse Analysis
  It is proposed three methods to visualize the emergence process of problem-solving discourse. First, keywords and modalities are extracted, and two types of emergent processes are found similar to self-organized critical phenomena. Second, according to reversal theory in psychology, the reversal processes are successfully plotted as reversal graph. In addition, the discourse is classified into three inference categories of deduction, induction or abduction. By plotting these as emergence diagram, it is found that the emergent processes consist of fine structures of micro-abduction chain. This suggests that creativity may be governed by the acceptance of the meaningless hypothesis by micro abduction.
• Subordinators as Interactional Resources: A study on Stand-Alone Adverbial Clauses in Japanese Conversation
  This study examines how stand-alone adverbial clauses, which are adverbial clauses occurring without their main clauses, are employed in Japanese conversation. In particular, it focuses on stand-alone uses of kara- and kedo-clauses. Based on a qualitative analysis of naturally-occurring conversations among native speakers of Japanese, the study indentifies prominent patterns of interactional jobs which stand-alone KARA- and KEDO- clauses achieve. Then, it is argued that stand-alone adverbial clauses are emerged as a result of exploitation of linguistic knowledge associated with each subordinator as resources for such interactional jobs.
• Vocabulary and Modality in Weekly Magazine Column Articles: Adverbs and Sentence-Final Expressions
  In composing a piece of written text, writers are expected to do so in accordance with the style, genre, context or BA congruent to the purpose and intended audience of the resulting passage. In the writings of non-native learners of Japanese, however, we find interesting examples of words and expressions that native speakers find "inappropriate." This suggests that clarifying what words and expressions are suitable for which kinds of text would help improve the way learners of Japanese acquire and improve their writing proficiency. In this paper, we mainly focus on adverbs and sentence-final expressions that appear in weekly magazine column sentences in which the writers state their opinions. A pilot survey of relevant data showed that the kinds of sentence-final expressions are varied, often with some modality elements. Among adverbs, those typically used for statements appear most often, suggesting some correlation between the adverbs and the sentence-final expressions. We also found relatively frequent use of adverbs that do not often appear in newspapers articles or technical papers.
• From Listenership to Identity Construction: Situated Laughter Activities in Japanese Conversational Interaction
  This study aims to explore how listenership expressed through laughter activities plays a role in the co-production of conversation and participants' identity construction, focusing on Japanese interaction. The data used in this study is the part of the spoken conversational corpus. My analysis reveals that listenership through laughing activities contributes to creating, enhancing and maintaining the human relations situated in the ongoing conversational context. I argue that such a contribution can be associated with the participants' identity construction by negotiating conversational and social roles.

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authors

• Winnie Cheng is Professor of English and Director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) in the Department of English of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Chief Editor of Asian ESP Journal. Her main research interests include ESP, intercultural business and professional communication, intercultural pragmatics, corpus linguistics, conversation and discourse analysis, discourse intonation, writing across the curriculum, and outcome-based education. Her publications include Exploring Corpus linguistics: Language in Action (2011), Intercultural Conversation (2003), A Corpus-driven Analysis of Discourse Intonation (2008), and Professional Communication: Collaboration between Academics and Practitioners (2009). She has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters.
  Email: egwcheng@polyu.edu.hk
• Jae-Woong Choe is Professor of Linguistics at Korea University and currently Exchange Researcher at Faculty of Law, Waseda University working on the topic of genitive constructions in Korean and Japanese.
• Yoko Fujii is Professor of Japan Women's University and the Research Representative for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science entitled "Socio-Cultural Co-creation of BA and Language Practices: Toward Construction of Pragmatic Theories from Native Speaker's Perspectives."
• Yasunari Harada is Professor at Faculty of Law and Director at the Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development of Waseda University and Principal Researcher for Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research entitled "Toward Construction of Linguistics of BA: Semantics and Pragmatics of BA." He is currently President of the Logico-Linguistics Society of Japan and a Steering Committee member of PACLIC,
• Sachiko Ide is President of International Pragmatics Association, Professor Emeritus at Japan Women's University and Research Fellow at Media Network Center of Waseda University.
• Yasuhiro Katagiri is Professor at Future University of Hakodate.
• Jong-Bok Kim is Professor at School of English and Director at Center for the Study of Language and Information of Kyung Hee University in Seoul. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1996 and has been working on syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics for Korean and English. His current research topics include comparative constructions in English and Korean, inversion phenomena in English, complex predicates in Korean, cleft constructions, focus projections in English and Korean, just to name a few. In addition to publishing numerous papers in prestigious domestic and international journals, he is the co-author of the textbook ``English syntax: an introduction" (CSLI Publications), which is now worldwide used as an undergraduate and graduate textbook. Since 2003, he has also turned his attention to computational implementation too and developed a computationally feasible grammar for Korean, Korean Resource Grammar.
• Ken Kuriyama is a researcher at Gakken Educational Research Institute.
• Kanako Maebo is a graduate student at Hitotsubashi University and part-time instructor at Center for the Japanese Language of Waseda University.
• Hideyuki Nakashima is the president of Future University Hakodate from 2004. Before this, he was the director of Cyber Assist Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He received his Ph. D. in information science at the University of Tokyo, 1983. Right after his graduation, he joined ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratories), which became AIST from 2001. His research field includes ubiquitous computing, multiagent systems, Artificial Intelligence, in particular knowledge representation and reasoning, and cognitive science. He is currently interested in a new methodology for complex information processing as well as societal application of information processing technologies.
• Masayuki Otsuka is Professor at Waseda Law School.
• Ayako Namba is a part-time lecturer at School of Law of Waseda University. Her Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Edinburgh is about listenership in Japanese conversational interaction, especially by focusing on laughter activities.
• Stanley Peters is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Stanford University and director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information. He has published on mathematical properties of grammars, logical semantics of natural languages, and spoken dialogue systems.
• Kazuo Sakai is Professor at School of Law of Meiji University.
• Sachiko Shudo is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in Waseda University in Tokyo. She received her Ph.D. (1998) in linguistics from Georgetown University. Her dissertation, The Presupposition and the Discourse Function of the Japanese Particle mo, was published in Routledge's Dissertation Series. Her main research interests include pragmatic issues involving presupposition.
• Glenn Stockwell is Professor and Associate Dean at Faculty of Law of Waseda University.
• Makiko Takekuro is Associate Professor at Faculty of Law of Waseda University. Her work focuses on honorifics and interactional context, gendered speech, and language and space in Ishigaki (Okinawa).
• Daisuke Yokomori is Part-time Lecturer at Kyoto University.
• Kei Yoshimoto received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Germany. After working at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, ATR Interpreting Telephony Laboratories, and the University of Stuttgart, he has been Professor at Tohoku University since 1996. As Professor at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies and the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, he has been mainly involved with the study on computer linguistics and language processing.
• Kishiko Ueno is Research Associate at Faculty of Humanities of Japan Women's University.
• André Włodarczyk, born in Poland, is a French linguist. He first worked at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) introducing computational methods into research on the Japanese language in France. He edited "Travaux de Linguistique Japonaise" (a series of collected papers) which were the fruit of his seminar on Japanese Linguistics at Denis Diderot University (Paris 7). Professor emeritus since 2010, he was the head of the Japanese Studies Department at Grenoble and Lille universities. Today, research director at CELTA (Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), Sorbonne University (Paris 4). His research concerns as well Japanese as General Linguistics, mainly in the field of pragmatics using formalized methods insofar as possible. He reached several pragmatic insights into such questions as centres of attention, person and politeness, information and meta-information in discourse.
• Hélène Włodarczyk, Professor of Linguistics at Faculty of Slavic Languages and Director general at CELTA (Centre for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) of University Paris-Sorbonne, coordinates research on meta-informative centering (MIC) and metalanguage based on Distributed Grammar for the description of European languages.

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notices

• Copyright © 2011 Institute for DECODE, Waseda Universtiy, except for the titles of the talks announced and profile descriptions of the speakers and moderators. All rights reserved.
• First drafted August 9th, 2011. Last revised April 5th, 2017.
• The meeting and talks announced in this web page are subject to change without prior notice. The organizers should not be held responsible for any purported or actual damages by prospective participants due to those changes.