All Outputs (51)

Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite) (2024)
Journal Article
Pizziconi, B. (2024). Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite). Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 20(1), 135-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2023-0066

Several decades of analytical inquiry into linguistic im/politeness have produced a substantial body of research shedding light on its linguistic and social dimensions, but also distinct discursive conventions and terminology. This study turns the sp... Read More about Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite).

Discourse (2023)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. Discourse. In M. Derivry-Plard, A. J. Liddicoat, & R. N. ReN-AILA (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (39-43). Editions des archives contemporaines

Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad (2023)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B., & Iwasaki, N. (2023). Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad. In M. Derivry-Plard, & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (126-137). Editions des archives contemporaines

The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learners’ writing and reading (2023)
Thesis
Lee, H. The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learners’ writing and reading. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study aims to provide a theoretical and pedagogical insight into the effects of genrebased literacy instruction on Korean foreign language learners’ reading and writing development. The research into the effects of genre-based instruction on for... Read More about The effect of the genre-based approach on KFL advanced learners’ writing and reading.

Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture (2022)
Journal Article
Pizziconi, B., & Iwasaki, N. (2024). Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture. The Language Learning Journal, 52(1), 49-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2022.2098367

Upon encountering unfamiliar words or observing local practices in study abroad contexts, second language learners may discuss aspects of the target language and culture with their peers – 'non-native' friends from the same cultural background or 'na... Read More about Friends as mediators in study abroad contexts in Japan: negotiating stereotypical discourses about Japanese culture.

Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts (2022)
Thesis
Cairangsanzhou, T. S. Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Historical Pragmatics is uncharted territory in Old Tibetan studies. This dissertation explores pragmatics in the Old Tibetan (8th to 11th centuries) as a language represented in texts discovered in Cave 17 in Dunhuang. This dissertation attempts to... Read More about Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts.

Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean (2022)
Thesis
Jang, H. J. Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study investigates how first-year undergraduate learners of Korean at a UK university develop intercultural competence. The study employed the following research questions: 1) Do first-year undergraduate learners of Korean develop intercultural... Read More about Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean.

Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West' (2021)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2021). Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West'. In T. McConachy, & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding (60-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094128-4

Intercultural perspectives on the process of learning and using a foreign language underscore the importance of interpretation – an inevitably ideologically reflexive activity – in the structuring of sociocultural knowledge. An encounter with new cul... Read More about Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West'.

Social deixis in Japanese (2020)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2020). Social deixis in Japanese. In W. M. Jacobsen, & Y. Takubo (Eds.), Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics (733-772). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512073-016

The particle ne in the development of interactional positioning in L2 Japanese (2019)
Journal Article
Kizu, M., Pizziconi, B., & Gyogi, E. (2019). The particle ne in the development of interactional positioning in L2 Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics, 4(1), 113-143. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.38217

The use of the sentence-final particle ne by a group of ten learners of Japanese is investigated longitudinally over a period spanning two years: before, during, immediately after and six-months after return from a year of study in Japan (SA). Quanti... Read More about The particle ne in the development of interactional positioning in L2 Japanese.

Indexicality and (im)politeness (2017)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B., & Chris, C. (2017). Indexicality and (im)politeness. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (143-170). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_7

Introducing the ‘Teaching’ and ‘Learning’ of (im)politeness (2015)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B., & Locher, M. (2015). Introducing the ‘Teaching’ and ‘Learning’ of (im)politeness. In B. Pizziconi, & M. Locher (Eds.), Teaching and Learning (Im)politeness (113-151). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501654-002

Teaching and learning (im)politeness: A look at the CEFR and pedagogical research (2015)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2015). Teaching and learning (im)politeness: A look at the CEFR and pedagogical research. In B. Pizziconi, & M. Locher (Eds.), Teaching and Learning (Im)politeness (113-151). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501654-006

'Teaching' and 'Learning' (Im)politeness (2015)
Book
Pizziconi, B., & Locher, M. (Eds.). (2015). 'Teaching' and 'Learning' (Im)politeness. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501654

The collection combines research from the field of politeness studies with research on language pedagogy and language learning. Our aim is to fill the unfortunate gap between these research traditions in an endeavour to enrich the outlook of both con... Read More about 'Teaching' and 'Learning' (Im)politeness.

Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan (2015)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2015). Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan. In P. Calvetti, & M. Mariotti (Eds.), Contemporary Japan - Challenges for a world economic power in transition (161-188). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing

The critical damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant, triggered by the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, caused radioactive contamination to a vast area and large-scale evacuation. Both its short- and long-term consequences are still re... Read More about Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan.

Terms of address in Najdi dialect : normativity and variation (2015)
Thesis
Aba-alalaa, H. Terms of address in Najdi dialect : normativity and variation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Japanese Public Service Announcements (PSA) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pizziconi, B. (2013, August). Japanese Public Service Announcements (PSA). Paper presented at Politeness Conference (LIAR III), University of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Japanese vocabulary development in and beyond study abroad: the timing of the year abroad in a language degree curriculum (2013)
Journal Article
Pizziconi, B. (2017). Japanese vocabulary development in and beyond study abroad: the timing of the year abroad in a language degree curriculum. The Language Learning Journal, 45(2), 133-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2013.786119

This paper reports the results of a study of vocabulary development by learners of Japanese, during a year abroad in Japan. The particular feature of this study is that it compares the performance of two cohorts, studying in the same UK university an... Read More about Japanese vocabulary development in and beyond study abroad: the timing of the year abroad in a language degree curriculum.

Japanese Politeness in Interaction (guest editorship of the special issue, and Introduction) (2013)
Journal Article
Pizziconi, B. (2013). Japanese Politeness in Interaction (guest editorship of the special issue, and Introduction). Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 32(2), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2013-0007

Modal Markers in Japanese: A Study of Learners’ Use before and after Study Abroad (2013)
Journal Article
Kizu, M., Pizziconi, B., & Iwasaki, N. (2013). Modal Markers in Japanese: A Study of Learners’ Use before and after Study Abroad. Japanese Language and Literature, 47(1), 94-133

Japanese discourse requires speakers to index, in a relatively explicit manner, their stance toward the propositional information as well as the hearer. This is done, among other things, by means of a grammaticalized set of modal markers. Although pr... Read More about Modal Markers in Japanese: A Study of Learners’ Use before and after Study Abroad.