MAKOTO HAYASHI
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2090 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Linguistics. 2000. University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, Colorado.
Dissertation title: Practices in Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese
Conversation.
M.A. Linguistics. 1994. University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, Colorado.
B.A.
English Language and Literature. 1990. Kyoto University. Kyoto, Japan.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2006 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Coordinate the 3rd/4thyear Japanese language courses.
2000 - 2006
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Coordinated the 3rd/4thyear Japanese language courses.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2010,
2006 - 2007
Director of Undergraduate Studies/Undergraduate Advisor,
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
2008 - 2009
Resident Director, Illinois-Konan Year-in-Japan Program. Deputy
Director, Konan International Exchange Center, Konan University, Kobe,
Japan. Oversaw a study-abroad program at Konan University involving
students from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France, and Germany.
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
2003
Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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Edited Volume:
Forthcoming
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding (with Geoffrey Raymond
and Jack Sidnell). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles:
Forthcoming
WH-shitsumon e no teikoo: Kandooshi ‘iya’ no soogokooi joo no hataraki
[Resistance to WH-questions: Interactional workings of the interjection iya] (with
Shuya Kushida).
Forthcoming
Introduction (with Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell). In M. Hayashi, G.
Raymond, and J. Sidnell (eds.), Conversational Repair and Human
Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming
Proffering insertable elements: A study of other-initiated repair in Japanese (with
Kaoru Hayano). In M. Hayashi, G. Raymond, and J. Sidnell (eds.),
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Forthcoming
Turn allocation and turn sharing in conversation. To appear in T. Stivers and J.
Sidnell (eds.), The Handbook of Conversation Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: WileyBlackwell.
Forthcoming
Activity, participation, and joint turn construction: A conversation analytic
exploration of ‘grammar-in-action’. To appear in K. Kabata and T. Ono (eds.),
Functional Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Toward the Understanding of
Human Language. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
2010
An overview of the question-response system in Japanese. A special issue on
‘Question-Response Sequences in Conversation across Ten Languages’. Journal
of Pragmatics 42(10), 2685-2702.
2010
Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints (with Tanya
Stivers). Language in Society 39(1), 1-25.
2009
Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation (with Tanya
Stivers, N. J. Enfield, Penelope Brown, Christina Englert, Trine Heinemann,
Gertie Hoymann, Federico Rossano, Jan Peter de Ruiter, Kyung-Eun Yoon, and
Stephen C. Levinson). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(26),
10587-10592.
2009
Marking a ‘noticing of departure’ in talk: Eh-prefaced turns in Japanese
conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 41(10), 2100-2129.
2009
Negotiating boundaries in talk (with Kyung-Eun Yoon). In J. Sidnell (ed.),
Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 248-276. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
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2009
A cross-linguistic investigation of the site of initiation in same turn self repair
(with Barbara Fox, Fay Wouk, Steven Fincke, Liang Tao, Marja-Leena Sorjonen,
Minna Laakso, and Wilfredo Flores). In J. Sidnell (ed.), Conversation Analysis:
Comparative Perspectives, pp. 60-103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2008
Kaiwa ni okeru ‘shiji’ to hatsuwa no bunpoo koozoo [‘Referring’ in conversation
and its relationship to the grammatical structures of utterances]. Kotoba to Ninchi
no Mekanizumu: Yamanashi Masaaki Kyooju Kanreki Kinen Ronbunshuu
[Linguistic and Cognitive Mechanisms: Festschrift for Professor Masa-aki
Yamanashi on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday], pp. 603-619. Tokyo: Hituzi
Syobo.
2008
Soogo kooi no shigen to shite no toosha to bunpoo: Shijishi ‘are’ no kooi toosha
teki yoohoo o megutte [Projection and grammar as interactional resources: On
the action-projecting use of the demonstrative are]. Shakai Gengo Kagaku [The
Japanese Journal of Language in Society] 10(2), 16-28.
2006
The achievement of intersubjectivity through embodied completions: A study of
interactions between first and second language speakers (with Junko Mori).
Applied Linguistics 27(2), 195-219.
2006
A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction: With particular
reference to the context of word-formulation trouble (with Kyung-eun Yoon).
Studies in Language 30(3), 485-540.
2005
‘Bun’-nai ni okeru intaa-akushon: Nihongo joshi no soogokooi-joo no yakuwari
o megutte [Interaction inside a ‘sentence’: On the interactional functions of
postpositions in Japanese]. In S. Kushida, T. Sadanobu, and Y. Den (eds.),
Katsudoo toshite no Bun to Hatsuwa [Exploring Sentences and Utterances as
Activities], pp. 1-26. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
2005
Joint turn construction through language and the body: Notes on embodiment in
conjoined participation in situated activities. Semiotica 156(1/4), 21-53.
2005
Referential problems and turn construction: An exploration of an intersection
between grammar and interaction. TEXT 25(4), 437-468.
2004
Projection and grammar: Notes on the ‘action-projecting’ use of the distal
demonstrative are in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 36(8), 1337-1374.
[Reprinted in P. Drew and J. Heritage, (eds.) 2006, Conversation Analysis,
Volume 3: Turn Design and Action Formation, pp. 189-232. London: Sage.]
2004
Discourse within a sentence: An exploration of postpositions in Japanese as an
interactional resource. Language in Society 33(3), 343-376.
2003
Language and the body as resources for collaborative action: A study of word
searches in Japanese conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction
36(2), 109-141.
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2002
Contingent achievement of co-tellership in a Japanese conversation: An analysis
of talk, gaze, and gesture (with Junko Mori and Tomoyo Takagi). In C. Ford, B.
Fox, and S. Thompson (eds.), The Language of Turn and Sequence, pp. 81-122.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2001
Postposition-initiated utterances in Japanese conversation: An interactional
account of a grammatical practice. In M. Selting and E. Couper-Kuhlen (eds.),
Studies in Interactional Linguistics, pp. 317-343. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.
1999
Where grammar and interaction meet: A study of co-participant completion in
Japanese conversation. Human Studies 22(2-4): 475-499.
1999
The role of empathy in sentence production: A functional analysis of aphasic and
normal elicited narratives in Japanese and English (with Lise Menn, Akio Kamio,
Ikuyo Fujita, Sumiko Sasanuma, and Larry Boles). In A. Kamio and K. Takami
(eds.), Function and Structure: In Honor of Susumu Kuno, pp. 317-355.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1998
Co-construction in Japanese revisited: We do finish each other’s sentences (with
Junko Mori). In N. Akatsuka, H. Hoji, S. Iwasaki, and S. Strauss (eds.),
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 7, pp. 77-93. Stanford: CSLI.
1998
The interaction of preserved pragmatics and impaired syntax in Japanese and
English aphasic speech (with Lise Menn, Kate F. Reilly, Akio Kamio, Ikuyo
Fujita, and Sumiko Sasanuma). Brain and Language 61: 183-225.
1997
An exploration of sentence-final uses of the quotative particle in Japanese spoken
discourse. In H. Sohn and J. Haig (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 6, pp.
565-581. Stanford: CSLI.
1996
Resources and repair: A cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair (with Barbara
Fox and Robert Jasperson). In E. Ochs, E. Schegloff, and S. Thompson (eds.),
Interaction and Grammar, pp. 185-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1995
The interaction of preserved pragmatics and impaired syntax in Japanese and
English aphasic speech (with Lise Menn, Kate F. Reilly, Akio Kamio, Ikuyo
Fujita, and Sumiko Sasanuma). Institute of Cognitive Science Technical Report
#95-2, University of Colorado.
1994
The role of empathy in sentence production: A functional analysis of aphasic and
normal elicited narratives in Japanese and English (with Lise Menn, Akio Kamio,
Ikuyo Fujita, Sumiko Sasanuma, and Larry Boles). CLASNET Working Papers
#1, Centre de recherche, Centre hospitalier Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal.
1994
Semantics and interaction: Three exploratory case studies (with Robert Jasperson
and Barbara Fox). TEXT 14(4): 555-580.
1994
A comparative study of self-repair in English and Japanese conversation. In N.
Akatsuka (ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 4, pp. 77-93. Stanford: CSLI.
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1994
A comparative study of self-repair in English and Japanese conversation. In S.
Iwasaki, T. Ono, H. Tao, and H. Lee (eds.), Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics,
pp. 37-55. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Plenary Addresses:
2009
Referential problems and turn construction: An exploration of an intersection of
grammar and interaction. Conference on Culture, Language, and Social Practice.
University of Colorado at Boulder, October 4.
Invited Lectures:
2010
Responding with resistance to WH-questions in Japanese talk-in-interaction.
Invited lecture for the Seminar Series at the Language, Interaction, and Social
Organization (LISO), University of California at Santa Barbara, May 21.
2009
Kaiwa ni okeru ‘shiji’ to hatsuwa no bunpoo koozoo [‘Referring’ in conversation
and its relationship to the grammatical structures of utterances]. Invited lecture at
Hokkaido University, Japan, July 10.
2008
‘Sanka no soshiki-ka’ no kanten kara mita ‘bunpoo’ saikentoo: ‘waado saachi’
o tooshite no ichi koosatsu [Re-conceptualizing ‘grammar’ from the perspective
of organization of participation: A case of ‘word search’]. Invited panel
presentation at the 19th annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Second
Language Acquisition, held at the University of Hokkaido, December 13-14.
2008
How speakers address the question’s design through non-direct answers (with
Tanya Stivers). Invited presentation at the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 27.
2008
What is ‘what’ doing: An exploration of the workings of nani (‘what’) in topicinitial turns (and in other places) in Japanese conversation. Invited presentation
at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
May 20.
2008
The achievement of intersubjectivity through embodied completions: A study of
interactions between first and second language speakers. Invited lecture at
University of Colorado at Boulder, April 22.
2008
Other-initiated repair in Japanese: An overview of OIR turn formats containing
‘wh’-words. Invited presentation at Repair Workshop held at the University of
Toronto, March 28-30.
2007
Some observations on questions/answers from Japanese data. Invited presentation
at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
May 9.
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2007
Marking ‘departure’ in talk: Eh-initiated turns in Japanese conversation. Invited
lecture at the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), University of
California at Los Angeles, February 7.
2006
E-prefaced turns in Japanese: Marking ‘problematicity’? Invited presentation at
the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
September 18.
2005
Conversation analytic perspectives. Invited presentation at the pre-conference
workshop held in conjunction with the 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics
Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 5.
2003
‘Learning-in-action’ outside of classroom: Toward an understanding of learning
as a socially distributed interactive phenomenon (with Junko Mori). Invited
lecture given at the SLATE Lecture Series, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, April 17.
2003
Notes on the ‘action-projecting’ use of the distal demonstrative pronoun are in
Japanese conversation. Invited presentation at the Workshop on ‘Projection,’ held
at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
March 5-7.
2001
An exploration of language and gesture in Japanese. Invited lecture given at the
Interaction and Language Workshop, held at the University of WisconsinMadison, October 19-21.
2001
Practices for word searches in Japanese conversation: Language and the body as
resources for collaborative action. Invited lecture given at the Center for East
Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 8.
2000
‘Postposition-initiated utterances’ in Japanese conversation: An interactional
account of a grammatical practice. Invited presentation. A Parasession on
Discourse-based Grammar at the 14th Annual International Conference on
Pragmatics and Language Learning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
April 13-15.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2010
Proffering insertable elements: A study of other-initiated repair in Japanese (with
Kaoru Hayano). Paper given at the International Conference on Conversation
Analysis (ICCA-10), Mannheim, Germany, July 4-8.
2010
Responding with resistance to WH-questions in Japanese talk-in-interaction (with
Shuya Kushida). Paper given at the International Conference on Conversation
Analysis (ICCA-10), Mannheim, Germany, July 4-8.
2009
‘I once knew, but I don’t remember now’: Making a retrospective knowledge
claim in Japanese interaction. Paper given at the 95th Annual Convention of
National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 12-15.
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2007
Eh-prefaced questions in response to informings in Japanese conversation. Paper
given at the 93rd Annual Convention of National Communication Association,
Chicago, IL, November 15-18.
2006
Negotiating boundaries in talk: On the ‘3rd-position’ deployment of minimal
response tokens in Japanese and Korean conversations. Paper given at the 92nd
Annual Convention of National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX,
November 15-19.
2006
On the ‘post-minimal-response’ deployment of minimal response tokens in
Japanese and Korean conversations (with Kyung-eun Yoon). Paper given at the
International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-06), Helsinki, Finland,
May 10-14.
2005
Some ways in which grammar shapes local interactional practices. Paper given at
2005 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington,
DC, November 30-December 4.
2005
Referential problems and turn construction. Paper given at the 9th International
Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 10-15.
2004
A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction: With particular
reference to the context of word search. Paper given at the 7th Conference on
Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL 2004), University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 8-10.
2004
A cross-linguistic analysis of demonstratives in Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin
as resources for dealing with word-formulation trouble in conversation. Paper
given at the 2004 Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar held in
conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San
Diego, California, March 4.
2002
A family of phonetic practices: An exploration of the relationships among
phonetics, syntax, and interaction (with Traci Curl and Barbara Fox). Paper given
at the EuroConference on Linguistic Structures and their Deployment in the
Organization of Conversation, Helsinki, Finland, September 6-11.
2002
What can collaborative completion tell us about learning a foreign language?
(with Junko Mori). Paper given at the International Conference on Conversation
Analysis (ICCA-02), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 17-21.
2001
Language and the body as resources for collaborative action: A study of word
searches in Japanese conversation. Paper given at the 87th Annual Meeting of the
National Communication Association, Atlanta, November 1-4. (Selected as one
of the Four Top Papers in the Language and Social Interaction Division of the
National Communication Association.)
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2001
‘Prospective indexicals’ in Japanese conversation: On the use of distal
demonstratives as a resource for collaborative action during word searches. Paper
given at the 2001 Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) Seminar held in
conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies,
Chicago, Illinois, March 22.
2000
Sharing responsibility for checking information: A key to transmission of
information in conversation (with Gail Ramsberger and Lise Menn). Poster
presentation at the Academy of Aphasia Conference 2000, Montreal, Canada,
October 22-24.
1999
‘Postposition-initiated utterances’ in Japanese conversation: An interactional
account of a grammatical practice. Paper given at the 5th Annual Conference on
Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Santa Barbara, April
30-May 1.
1997
Where grammar and interaction meet: A study of co-participant completion in
Japanese conversation. Paper given at Ethnomethodology and Conversation
Analysis: East and West, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 21-23.
1996
Co-construction in Japanese revisited: We do ‘finish each other’s sentences’
(with Junko Mori). Paper given at the 7th Japanese/Korean Linguistics
Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, November 8-10.
1996
An analysis of talk, gaze, and gesture: A contingent achievement of co-tellership
in Japanese conversation (with Junko Mori and Tomoyo Takagi). Paper given at
the 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 4-9.
1996
Toward a general account of U::N in Japanese conversation. Paper given at the
Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics,
Chicago, Illinois, March 23-26.
1995
Discourse-pragmatic functions of sentence-final uses of the quotative particle in
Japanese. Paper given at the 6th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference,
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, August 8-10.
1995
Cognitive factors in the choice of syntactic form by aphasic and normal speakers
of English and Japanese: The speaker's impulse (with Lise Menn, Kate F. Reilly).
Paper given at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
January.
1993
A comparative study of repair in English and Japanese conversation. Paper given
at the 4th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of California, Los
Angeles, October 15-17.
1993
Sentence perspective in normal and aphasic English and Japanese: Implications
for models of sentence formulation (with Lise Menn, Akio Kamio, Ikuyo Fujita,
Larry Boles, Yasunori Morishima, and Sumiko Sasanuma). TENNET
(Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology) meeting, Montreal, May 1993.
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SPONSORED RESEARCH
2003
“An Exploration of Interactional Uses of Demonstratives in Japanese, Korean
and Chinese: A Cross-Linguistics Approach to Interactionally Situated
Grammar.” UIUC Campus Research Board Grant, January, 2003 – December,
2003. $27,746.
2002
“Practices in the joint utterance construction in Japanese conversation.” UIUC
Campus Research Board Humanities Released Time Award, January, 2002 –
May, 2002. $9,000.
2001
“An Investigation of Word-search Strategies in Native Speaker/Non-native
Speaker Talk in Japanese.” UIUC Campus Research Board Grant, January,
2001 – December, 2001, $13,498.
COURSES TAUGHT
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Language Structure in Social Interaction
Interactional Perspectives on Language and Gesture
Discourse and Grammar in East Asian Languages
Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
Language in Japanese Society
Language and Society in East Asia
Advanced Japanese Language
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Manuscript reviews for journals:
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Language in Society
Journal of Pragmatics
Pragmatics
Discourse Processes
Discourse Studies
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Issues in Applied Linguistics
Shakai Gengo Kagaku [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society]
Manuscript reviews for edited volumes:
• Multimodality and Human Activity: Research on Behavior, Action, and
Communication (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), ed. by C. Goodwin, C. D.
LeBaron, and J. Streeck.
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• Conversation Analysis: Multilingual Perspectives (National Foreign Language
Resource Center, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2006), ed. by G. Kasper and H.
Nguyen.
• Cognition and Function in Language (CSLI Publications, 1999), ed. by B. Fox, D.
Jurafsky, and L. Michaelis.
Reviews of grant applications:
• Utah State University New Faculty Research Grant competition
• The Leverhulme Trust (London, UK), Research Fellowship Program
• The University of Illinois Campus Research Board Grant competition
Abstract reviews for conferences:
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International Conference on Conversation Analysis
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Linguistic Society of America
National Communication Assocation
Association of Teachers of Japanese
International Pragmatics Association
Association for Asian Studies
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