Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Takagi, T., Hosoda, Y., & Morita, E. (2016). 会話分析の基礎 [Basics of Conversation Analysis]. Tokyo: Hituji Syobō.
• Morita, E. (2005) Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Burdelski, Matthew. & Morita, E. (2016). Young children’s initial assessment in Japanese. In Amanda Bateman & Amelia Church (eds.), Children & Conversation Analysis: Knowledge Production in Everyday Interaction. (pp.231-255). Springer. 
• Morita, E. (2016).  会話のはじめの一歩：子供における相互行為詞「よ」の使用[First steps in conversation: Children’s use of the interactional particle ‘yo’] In Takada, A, Shimada, Y, and Kawashima M. (Eds.). 子育ての会話分析：大人と子供の責任はどう育つか [Conversation analysis of child care: How adults’ and children’s “responsibility” develops]. (pp.145-170). Kyoto: Showado.
• Morita, E. (2013). The Symbolic Power of English Loanwords in Japanese Political Discourse. In Lionel Wee, Lisa Lim & Robbie Goh (Eds.).The Politics of English in Asia. Language policy and cultural expression in South and Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. John Benjamins, pp.249-267.
• Hiramoto, M. & Morita, E. (2011) The Pragmatics of Pronoun Borrowing: The Case of Japanese Immigrants in Hawai‘i in Japanese. 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol.19. Stanford: CSLI.
• Morita, E. (2010) "Salientizing the breaks in talk: Japanese interactional particles ." Proceedings of DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop (2010): 59-62. Tokyo, Japan: The University of Tokyo.(The 55tth Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and the 2ndinternational symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech, 25 - 26 Sep 2010, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
• Morita, E. (2008) "Arbitrating Community Norms: The Use of English Me in Japanese Discourse". In Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo (Eds). Beyond Yellow English:Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America.New York: Oxford University Press.
• Morita, E. (2002) Stance marking in the collaborative completion of sentences: Final particles as epistemic markers in Japanese. 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol.10. Stanford: CSLI. Akatsuka, N. & Strauss, S. Eds.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Morita, E. (2017). 相互行為詞：行為と行為の間における相互行為の秩序の交渉を捉える [Interactional Particles] 日本語学 36 (4), 152-163.
• Takagi, Tomoyo & Morita, Emi (2015) 「ええと」によって開始される応答 [Responses initiated with “eeto”]. 社会言語科学 [The Japanese Journal of Language in Society] 18(1).
• (2015) Japanese interactional particles as a resource for stance building. Journal of Pragmatics. 91-103.
• (2014) “Say [X]”: A device for securing conversational footing in the talk of young children. Discourse Processes 52 (4). 290-310. DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2014.955774.
• (2012). “This talk needs to be registered”: The metapragmatic meaning of the Japanese interactional particle yo. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (13). pp. 1721-1742. 
• (2012). Deriving the socio-pragmatic meanings of the Japanese interactional particle ne. Journal of Pragmatics 44.3. 298-314.
• (2008) Functions of the Japanese Interactional Particle Ne and its Socio-Pragmatic Implications. The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 10 (2). pp.42-54.
• (2008) Highlighted moves within an action: Segmented talk in Japanese conversation." Discourse Studies 10(41). pp.513-537.
  
• (2007) Shujoshi, kantojoshi no kubetsu wa hituyo ka. [Is the distinction between final particles and interjectional particles necessary?] Gengo 36 (3). pp.44-52.
• (2003) Children's use of address and reference terms: Language socialization in a Japanese-English bilingual environment. Multilingua 22 (4). pp.367-395.

BOOK REVIEWS

• (2000) Review of A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning by Peter Skehan. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 11 (1). pp. 129-132.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Takagi, T. & Morita, E. Interactional works of Japanese vocal markers eeto and anoo. (Joint Annual meeting of The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea and The Sociolinguistics Society of Korea. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Cyber Buildling, Seoul, South Korea. Keynote speaker, April 9, 2016.)
• Takagi, T. & Morita, E. Answering difficult question and answering more than asked: differentiated use of Japanese eeto and anoo prefaced responding turns. (International Pragmatic Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, July 27, 2015)
• Morita, E. & Takagi, T. Shitsumon ni taisuru ootoo no bootoo niokeru “eeto” no yakuwari  [Roles of “eeto” at the initial position of responses to questions] (International Symposium Japanese Studies in the Globalizing World, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Jan 27, 2015)
• Takagi, T. & Morita, E. Eeto-and anoo prefaced responses in Japanese conversation (Conversation Analysis Workshop with Sandra Thompson, Ochanomizu Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 1, 2014)
• Morita, E. Second Assessments and the Development of an Epistemically Shared Framework in the Play of Very Young Children. International Conference on Conversation Analysis. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, June 27, 2014)
• Takagi, T. & Morita, E. Marking the forsaking of progressivity in responding: eeto-prefaced responses in Japanese conversation. (Second International Workshop on Conversation Analysis, NTU, Singapore, Feb 28, 2014)
• "Display of sequential trajectory understanding in the talk of a three year old". International Workshop on Interaction in Child Care. ( 9 - 10 Mar 2013), Bunkyo School Building at Tokyo Campus of Tsukuba University, Tokyo, Japan.
• "Making a place to say her line: children’s construction of pre-expansion". CA in Asia. (27 - 28 Feb 2013) NTU, Singapore.
• "Study of Interactional Particles and Conversation Analysis". The 2nd Workshop for Linguistics of Spoken Language (Invited paper) (30 - 31 Aug 2011, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
  
• "The Role of Japanese Interactional Particle Yo in Marking the Opportunity for Demonstrable Receipt". 10th conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (10 - 14 Jul 2011, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland)
• The cluster effect of combining the interactional particles yo and ne in Japanese conversation. Presented at 12th International Pragmatics Conference (July 3-8, 2011), University of Manchester, UK.
• "Salientizing the breaks in talk: Japanese interactional particles." presented at DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010 (The 55th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech)
• “Normativizing “unnaturalness” in translation: Dubbing “foreignness” into American home shopping programs in Japan” at the Second International Conference of The Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia (22-23 October 2009) at Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi.
• “The symbolic Power of English Loanwords in Japanese Political Discourse” at the work shop for Politics of English in Asia: Language Politics and Cultural Expression. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Aug 4-5 2009.
• “Conversational functions and derived various interpretations of the Japanese particle yo” at the 11th Interanational Pragmatics Conference. July 12-17, 2009. Melbourne, Australia.
• “Japanese particle yo and its role in the explicit marking of “uptake” as relevant next” at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, July 8-13, 2007. Göteborg, Sweden.
• “Understanding the socio-pragmatic implications of the Japanese interactional particle ne” at the Annual conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics, April 21-24, 2007. Costa Mesa, USA.
• “Conversational functions of segmented talk.” Paper presented at the inaugural conference of the Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia. 12-14 October 2006. Singapore.
• “Ameliorating disjunctives in Japanese story-telling.” Paper presented at International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). May 10-14, 2006. Helsinki, Finland.
• “Negotiating intra-turn interaction in Japanese conversation.” Paper presented at International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA). August 5-8, 2005. Bentley College, Boston.
• Local pragmatic work of segmented talk. Paper presented at 9th International Pragmatic Conference, July 10-15, 2005 Riva del Garda, Italy.
• Japanese particle sa: Creating an interactional space for the negotiation of non-negotiability. Paper presented at Annual conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics, May 1-4, 2004. Portland, Oregon.
• Study of Japanese interactional particle sa. Paper presented at The First Southern California Student Workshop on Japanese Linguistics: From the Functional, Generative, and Historical Perspectives. University of California, Los Angeles, February 22, 2003. Los Angeles.
• The Japanese pragmatic particle sa and ne. Paper presented at Workshop for East Asian Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2, 2002. Santa Barbara.
• Stance marking in the collaborative completion of sentences: Final particles as epistemic markers in Japanese, Paper presented at the 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, October 13-15, 2000. UCLA.
• Children’s use of personal reference terms: Language socialization in a Japanese-English environment. Paper presented at Annual conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics, March 11-14, 2000. Vancouver.
• "Bilingual children’s use of personal reference term." Paper presented at Workshop for East Asian Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara, February 26, 2000. Santa Barbara.
• "Making a place to say her line: children’s construction of pre-expansion". CA in Asia. (27 - 28 Feb 2013) NTU, Singapore.

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• Morita, E. Children’s use of ‘say [X]’ construction in interaction. (talk given at Prof. Charles Goodwin’s graduate seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, Feb 16, 2015)
• "The Japanese Interactional Particle NE: A study of its use in conversational interaction" at the 7th Symposium on the Cultural Formation of Responsibility. December 4, 2009. Kyoto University.