Announcement for the Second International Workshop on Linguistics of <em>BA</em> July 4th Saturday and July 5th Sunday, 2015

The Second International Workshop on Linguistics of BA

Announcements

registration to be handled on site
no fee or pre-registration required for participation
Dates and Venue

Dates	July 4th Saturday and July 5th Sunday, 2015
Venue	Meeting Room on the 5th Floor Future University Hakodate 116-2 Kameda-Nakano Hakodate Hokkaido, Japan http://www.fun.ac.jp/en/

access and location

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program

Day 1:
July 4th
Saturday

13:15-13:45

preparations

13:45-15:45

session 1: moderator Yasuhiro Katagiri

13:45-14:15	participants	introduction
14:15-14:45	Yasuhiro Katagiri	Opening Remarks presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/YasuhiroKatagiri.pdf
14:45-15:45	Daisuke Bekki	Contexts in Dependent Type Semantics presentation slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kaleidotheater/hakodate2015-julyslide

15:45-16:20

coffee break

16:20-19:00

session 2 moderator Yasunari Harada

16:20-17:45	Norihiro Sadato	Development of Social Cognition: Functional Neuroimaging Approach presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/NorihiroSadato.pdf
17:45-18:00	short break
18:00-19:00	Toshiyuki Sadanobu	BA in Japanese grammar and communication presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/ToshiyukiSadanobu.pdf

19:30-21:30

further discussion at Restaurant Vascu

Day 2:
July 5th
Sunday

10:20-12:15

session 3 moderator Yasuhiro Katagiri

10:20-11:20	Kishiko Ueno	Speaking as Parts of a Whole: Wakimae Utterances in Japanese Conversation presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/KishikoUeno.pd
11:20-11:30	short break
11:30-12:15	Yoko Fujii	Ba-Oriented Culture and Predicate-Oriented Language presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/YokoFujii.pdf

12:15-13:00

lunch

13:00-16:00

session 4 moderator Jae-Woong Choe

13:00-14:15	Sachiko Ide	How is spoken Japanese more ba-oriented than English? presentation slides: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/documents-for-2015-07-04-05/SachikoIde.pdf
14:15-14:30	short break
14:30-15:45	Yoshihiro Miyake	Interpersonal Synchrony of Body Movement in Daily Face-to-Face communicaiton: As a Fundamental Process of Co-creation System presentation slides:
15:45-16:15	participants	wrap up

16:30-17:30

organizers

business meeting

hosted by:

Future University Hakodate

Supported in part by:

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)	15H01771	PI: Yoshihiro Miyake	Realtime Visualization System of Communication Field for Co-Creative Teaching Support
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)	15H03208	PI: Yoko Fujii	Construction of a Pragmatic Model of BA: Cross-linguistic Realistic Data Analyses Based on Native Speakers Points of View
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)	26370461	PI: Masayuki Otsuka	Development of of the Theory of BA in Language and Communication: Solving Problems in Modern Societies
Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research	26580074	PI: Yasuhiro Katagiri	Costruction of Linguistics of BA: BA and Emergence of Meaning
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)	25370733	PI: Kishiko Ueno	Questions in Conversation: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Speakers

Purpose:

Context dependence in language use has been studied in a wide range of its manifestations in linguistic phenomena: from anaphora, presupposition, indexicals, personal pronouns, sentence-final particles and other modal expressions, politeness, to common-grounding, repair, register, style or framing. Descriptive concepts and analytical frameworks, such as discourse representation, conversational scoreboard, information state update, contextualization cue, and deictic field, have also been proposed to capture those phenomena in a number of different disciplines approaching language, most notably in semantics/pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

The concept of 'Ba', taken from the Japanese word for 'place' or 'field', has been proposed by Japanese biological and social scientist to provide an abstract conceptual basis on which to capture dynamics in interactive phenomena, such as dynamic order formation in living organisms (Shimizu, 1990), or knowledge creation in business management (Nonaka & Konno, 1998).

When applied to human language use, 'ba' concept emphasizes the significance of the place, both physically and mentally conceived, in which human interactions take place. 'Ba' simultaneously works, for the participants, to affect their construals of linguistic acts performed, and to exert normative forces to regulate their linguistic behavior choices committed in the 'ba'. The concept of Wakimae (Ide, 2006) is an example of 'ba'-sensitive, in contrast to the more conventional face-based, conception of the underlying mechanism of linguistic politeness behaviors, which has proven to be highly successful.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers who are interested in 'ba' concept to get together to exchange their works, ideas and perspectives, both empirical and theoretical, to deepen our understanding of 'ba' and explore its relationships to our language practices.

related events

upcoming
- March 26th Saturday and 27th Sunday, 2016
  The Third International Workshop on Linguistics of BA
  Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2016-03-26-27-e.html
past
- December 10th and 11th, 2011
  An International Workshop on Linguistics of BA
  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2011-12-10-11-j.html

abstracts

Contexts in Dependent Type Semantics
Discourse semantics based on dependent type theory, such as Ranta's Type Theoretical Grammar, is expected to serve as a proof-theoretic alternative to standard, model-theoretic discourse semantics such as DRT and DPL. Its compositionality, however, with respect to anaphora and presupposition, has been left as an open problem, toward which several different approaches have been proposed. In this presentation, I will introduce a compositional discourse theory of meaning, which we call dependent type semantics (DTS), that remedies this enterprise by the combination of the following settings: 1) the context-passing mechanism, 2) underspecified terms for representing anaphora/presupposition triggers, 3) (bottom-up) semantic composition with raw terms, and 4) (top-down) anaphora resolution as type checking/inference.

Development of Social Cognition: Functional Neuroimaging Approach
Social cognition is defined as the capacity to engage in information processing with the aim of accurate cognition of other personsf character or intentions. To understand the development of social cognition, modeling based on longitudinal behavioral observation is essential. Functional neuroimaging techniques can aid in this process by providing the neural basis of the psychological constructs, and the constraints for the model. First the history of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and its future perspective are introduced. Second, I will introduce an attempt to apply simultaneous fMRI measurements of two individuals to elucidate the neural basis of joint attention, one of the most important behavioral milestones of development of social cognition. Lastly, I stress the importance of combining current and ongoing progress in neuroscience, from the emicrof through emacrof levels, with scholarship within the humanities. As a connecting node for the different research fields, functional neuroimaging technique will play a critical for the ultimate goal of comprehensive understanding of human social cognition.

BA in Japanese grammar and communication
In this presentation I willl show that we should admit the dense interaction between human being and his/her environment in order to fully understand the Japanese event expressions, as pointed out by Masayuki Ohtsuka. To be more concrete, (i) Unlike the traditional view, it is possible to express a single state as an event; (ii) But it is possible only with the support either of two types of strong interaction, exploration or somatics. They are grammaticalized patterns of reportability of experience talked; (iii) Exploration has a further relation to the naturalness of the so-called mirative TA. It can be natural to express a thingfs property and activity with mirative TA as experienced just now. But this is only with the support of exploratory theme; and (iv) The setting of exploratory theme can be related with the speaker's position in communication. In problem-solving situation, it is only the person responsible for the problem who can express his/her experience of discovering some state in terms of mirative TA.

Ba-Oriented Culture and Predicate-Oriented Language
This study presents the ba-oriented culture of Japan, which has a strong basis for producing a predicate-oriented type of language. The Japanese language has abundant linguistic phenomena showing non-agency or no self-representation; thus, it has no-subject clause structures and prefers holistic expressions. On the other hand, the predicate subsumes agency and information with regard to person references in terms of honorific forms, "giving" and "receiving" forms, and final particles. This presentation attempts to demonstrate that these linguistic phenomena are rooted in the ba-oriented organization of the self and the construal of the world from the self in ba.

Speaking as Parts of a Whole : Wakimae Utterances in Japanese Conversation
This study utilizes the concept of ba to analyze how harmonious and consistent interaction is realized in Japanese dyadic conversation. I argue that what governs the interaction is the speakers' self-referencing sense of place within the relationship of the dyad, wakimae, rather than the speakers' volitional choice of strategies. Speakers behave as parts of a whole, which is sensed as ba, and produce induced-fitting utterances to each other monitoring what is called for.

How is spoken Japanese more ba-oriented than English?
It is known that while English has grammatical agreement, Japanese has obligatory pragmatic agreement. Where does this difference in agreement come from? In answering this question, we introduce ba oriented thinking as an innovative idea to explain Japanese pragmatics. Ba oriented thinking characterized by immediacy, dual mode thinking and self-organization, three of the six assumptions of ba theory, was introduced to illustrate how, in the choice among personal pronouns, the pragmatic agreement that is obligatory in Japanese, is achieved.

Interpersonal Synchrony of Body Movement in Daily Face-to-Face communicaiton: As a Fundamental Process of Co-creation System
We investigated relationship between degree of empathy and multi-layered embodied synchrony using time-frequency factorization analysis. The results suggest that our implicit communication channel (BA) realized in embodied interaction has muti-layered structure.

authors and participants

Daisuke Bekki is Associate Professor at Ochanomizu Women's University: https://ocha.academia.edu/DaisukeBekki

Jae-Woong Choe is Professor at Linguistics Department and Director at the Institute for Digital Humanities of Korea University and currently a Visiting Scolar at Faculty of Law of Waseda University as a JSPS invited fellow, working on adnominal constructions in Korean and Japanese.

Yoko Fujii is Professor of Japan Women's University and Prinsipal Investigator of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No. 15H03208, "Construction of a Pragmatic Model of BA: Cross-linguistic Realistic Data Analyses Based on Native Speakers Points of View."

Yasunari Harada is Professor at Faculty of Law and Director at the Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development of Waseda University and was Principal Investigator for Grants-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, "Toward Construction of Linguistics of BA: Semantics and Pragmatics of BA." He is currently a Steering Committee member of PACLIC,

Sachiko Ide is former President of International Pragmatics Association, Professor Emeritus at Japan Women's University and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Language and Informaiton of Waseda University.

Yasuhiro Katagiri is Professor at Future University Hakodate and Principal Investigator of Grants-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, No. 26580074, "Costruction of Linguistics of BA: BA and Emergence of Meaning."

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Toshiyuki Sadanobu is Professor at Kobe University.

Norihiro Sadato is Professor at National Institute for Physiolosy.

Kishiko Ueno is Lecturer at Tokyo City Universtiy and Prinsipal Investigator of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 25370733, "Questions in Conversation: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Speakers." .

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notices

First drafted June 6th, 2015. Last revised July 14th, 2015
The meeting and talks announced in this web page are subject to change without prior notice. The organizers should not be held responsible for any purported or actual damages by prospective participants due to those changes.