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Dr Ryoko Sasamoto

Name:Dr Ryoko Sasamoto
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Dr Ryoko Sasamoto

Research Interests:

Cognitive pragmatics, with special interest in verbal and non - verbal communication, relationship between visual and linguistic information and Japanese Discourse and discourse connectives. I work within the framework of relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson)

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

Selected Chapters

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

  • Ryoko Sasamoto. 2004. `Dakara to Sorede-Kanrensei Riron no Siten Kara-¿ . Working Papers in English Linguistics and English and American Literature. Nara Women¿s University, 30, pp43-68.
  • Sasamoto, R., Kyoko, A., and Doherty, S, Multi-media, multi-modal, multi-intentions, The Multimodality and Cyberpsychology Conference, 24-NOV-12 - 24-NOV-12, Dublin
  • Sasamoto, R, A Japanese Kana Choice as A Highlighting Device, 4th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Ireland Association, 22-NOV-12 - 23-NOV-12, Cork, Ireland
  • Sasamoto, R, Subtitles, Humour and Irritation: Attempts at Viewer Manipulation on TV., Manchester and Salford New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, 02-NOV-12 - 03-NOV-12, Manchester, UK
  • Arai, K & R. Sasamoto, Advertising, brand image building and weak communication, Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation, 25-SEP-12 - 26-SEP-12, Warsaw, Poland
  • Kondo, Y & R. Sasamoto, Academic Japanese Course Development in Irish Higher Education, the 25th Japanese Language Education Liaison Conference, 06-AUG-12 - 07-AUG-12, Erfult, Germany
  • Ryoko Sasamoto, What is formality ¿ is it semantic or pragmatic? ¿ A relevance theoretic re-analysis of reformulation markers tsumari and sunawachi, In: Shunichiro Nagatomo ed.Japan Pragmatics Society 11th Conference, 20-DEC-09 - 21-DEC-09, Matsuyama, Japan
  • Ryoko Sasamoto, Dyslexia and Pragmatics, The Pragmatics Society of Japan 11th Conference, 20-DEC-09 - 21-DEC-09, Matsuyama, Japan
  • Ryoko Sasamoto, `Japanese discourse markers and the communication of emotions - linguistic semantics and pragmatic inference, LingO, 23-SEP-05 - 24-SEP-05, Oxford, UK