Forthcoming Conferences
Past Conferences
Friday 4 May 2012 'Ba oriented approach to language practice: An attempt to emancipatory pragmatics'
Robin Fest (Conference for Robin Lakoff on the occasion of her retirement) Saturday 10 December 2011 Ba oriented perspective and language practice
Workshop on Linguistics of Ba. Waseda University, Tokyo. With Kishiko Ueno Sunday 9 October 2011 Politeness in search for a sustainable global community: from the logic of individualism towards the logic of ba.
Lecture Meeting, Association of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Kyoto Sunday 3 July 2011 'Let the wind blow from the East:
Using the 'ba (field) ' theory to explain how two strangers co-create a story' Presidential Lecture The 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester Saturday 6 November 2010 'How and why two strangers can co-create a story: Application of the 'ba'-theory based approach to the discourse'
Symposium: Toward a Linguistic Thoery of Ba: Semantics and Pragmatics of Ba The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC24) Monday 6 September 2010 Dynamic processes of the co-creation of a story by interactants: The 'Ba-theory' approach as an a step to an ecological study of discourse
Workshop at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Workshop on Comparative Pragmatics Saturday 4 September 2010 Why Japanese can't live without honorifics: The practice of modal expressions and the logic of ba
Thematic panel "Cultural Values and Language Practice: In Search of an Enriched Pragmatic Theory" Sociolinguistic Symposium 18 Friday 6 August 2010 'The co-creation of a story in discourse: A ba-theory based approach as a step toward an ecological study'
The Keynote speech The 2nd International Conference on Language and Communication Thursday 16 July 2009 '*The coffee is ready*: The logic of ba or field and language practice.'
At the panel 'Emancipatory Pragmatics: The Search for Cultural Parameters in Interactional Discourse.' 11th International Pragmatics Conference Monday 22 September 2008 'The Pragmatics of Individualism and the Pragmatics of Contextualism: In Search of a Sustainable Global Community'
12th International Conference of EAJS Salento university, Lecce, Italy Thursday 18 September 2008 Keynote lecture 'The MIC theory and the Japanese language'
International Conference in Discourse Coherence-Text and Theory, University of Paris-Sorbonne, CELTA, France Monday 1 September 2008 'Cultural parameters and speaker's perspectives: individualistic vs. contextual'
Faculty of Language and Communication, National Institute for Development Administration (NIDA), Bangkok, Thailand Saturday 30 August 2008 Special public lecture on 'The Japanese mind and the use of honorifics'
Conference on 'Mind and Life: Spirituality and Science Perspectives' Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday 11 June 2008 Public Lecture 'Cultural Cognition and Language Behavior: The logic of 'ba' expressed in the Japanese language.'
at the 4th Lecture Series on 'Language, Brain and Cognition' Saturday 7 June 2008 Keynote Speech 'Cross-Cultural Communicating in search for Sustainable Global Community: The theory in individualism and the logic of 'ba''
at the 5th Conference on Intercultural Communication at St. Paul University 立教大学 異文化コミュニケーション学会第5回大会 Saturday 5 April 2008 'The indexicalities of Japanese language practice and underlying linguistic ideologies'
Workshop on 'Cultural Values and Language Behavior: Focus on Asia' organized by Li Wei Thursday 27 March 2008 'Emancipatory pragmatics-Explorations on universals for the global community'
International Workshop on Emancipatory Pragmatics, Sebha University, Sebha, Libya Friday 7 September 2007 'How can we contribute for the sustainable global community doing linguistics and pragmatics? -Suggestions for Asians-'
International Symposium on Discourse, Communication and Modernity in honor of His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |