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        Saeko Fukushima       Prof., Ph.D.

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Work address: Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Tsuru University 

3-8-1 Tahara Tsuru Yamanashi 402-8555 Japan 

Email: saeko@tsuru.ac.jp

 

Research Interests

Interpersonal pragmatics, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Metapragmatics, Im/politeness 

 

Education

1999 Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, UK 

1981  M.A. in TEFL, Ball State University, USA 

 

Employment

1995– present: Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Tsuru University, Japan  2001: Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of Berne, Switzerland (April 2001–September 2001) 

1990–1995: Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Tsuru University 

1987–1990: Lecturer (full-time), Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Tsuru University 

1993–1995: Lecturer (part-time), Hoosei University 

1985–1992: Lecturer (part-time), Hoosei University 

1984–1987: Lecturer (part-time), Dokkyo University and Tookai University 

1980–1981: Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Ball State University 

 

Main Publications

Monographs

Fukushima, Saeko. (2020). Metapragmatics of Attentiveness: A Study in Interpersonal and Cross-cultural Pragmatics.Sheffield:    

                                               Equinox Publishing. 

Fukushima, Saeko. (2000/2002/2003). Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese. Bern: Peter Lang.  

a.     Reviewed by Michael Haugh in 1 (1), 160-165 (2005). 

b.     Reviewed by Derek Bousfield in Journal of Pragmatics 37, 1117-1127 (2005). 

c.     Reviewed by Suzuko Nishihara in The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 5 (1), 101-104 (2002). 

 

Book Chapters 

  • Ren, Wei, and Saeko Fukushima. (forthcoming). Comparison between Chinese and Japanese social media requests. In Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House (eds.), The Handbook of Contrastive Pragmatics. Leiden: Brill. 

  • Ren, Wei, and Saeko Fukushima. (forthcoming). Address terms in social media requests: A contrastive study of Chinese and Japanese university students. In Nicole Baumgarten  and Roel Vismans (eds.), Forms of Address in Contrastive Contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2020 in press). ポライトネスと配慮：受諾と断りを伴う依頼の場合 (Politeness and consideration: In the case of requests which accompany compliances and refusals). In Mayumi Usami (ed.), 『日本語の自然会話分析』(An analysis of Japanese natural conversations). Tokyo: Kuroshio. 

  • Kádár, Dániel Z., and Saeko Fukushima. (2020). The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study. In Chaoqun Xie (ed.), (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions (pp. 149-173). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10. 1075/bct.107.ip.00016.kad (previously published in Internet Pragmatics 1 (2) 2018) 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2019). A metapragmatic aspect of politeness: With special emphasis on attentiveness in Japanese. In Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (eds.), From Speech Acts to Lay Concept of Politeness (pp. 226-249). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182119.010 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2014). (In)directness and (in)formality in Japanese e-mail requests. In the Editorial Committee for the Research Papers Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Department of English, Tsuru University (ed.), Linguistics, Literature and Beyond (pp. 3-27). Tokyo: Hituzi shobo.

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2010). Hearer’s aspect in politeness: The case of requests. In Dingfang Shu and Ken Turner (eds.), Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West (pp. 103-135). Oxford: Peter Lang. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2003). A cross-cultural study of requests: The case of British and Japanese undergraduates. In Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner (eds.), Meaning through Language Contrast Volume 2 (pp. 263-275). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (1996). Request strategies in British English and Japanese. In Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner (eds.), Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics Volume II Discourse Strategies (pp. 671–688). Oxford: Pergamon.  

 

Papers (peer-reviewed) (since 2009)

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2020). Motives of attentiveness and their interactional manifestations. East Asian Pragmatics 5 (2), 223-246. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.40998 

  • Cao, Jinbo, Dániel Z. Kádár, and Saeko Fukushima (2020).日本政治语体特征及其语⽤功能研究 (Variations in Japanese political register and the pragmatic functions). Foreign Languages and their Teaching 4 (313): 138-146.  

  • Kádár, Dániel Z., and Saeko Fukushima. (2018). The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study. Internet Pragmatics 1 (2), 352-378. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00016.kad  

  • Fukushima, Saeko, and Maria Sifianou. (2017). Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek. Intercultural Pragmatics 14 (4), 525-555. https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2017-0024 

  • Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, and Saeko Fukushima. (2017). “Your care and concern are my burden!”: Accounting for the emic concepts of ‘attentiveness’ and ‘empathy’ in interpersonal relationships among Taiwanese females. East Asian Pragmatics 2 (1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.33081 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2016). Emic understandings of attentiveness and its related concepts among Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics 1 (2), 181-208. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.vli2.31762 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2015). In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 11 (2), 261-287. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2015-0011 

  • Fukushima, Saeko, and Michael Haugh. (2014). The role of emic understandings in theorizing im/politeness: The metapragmatics of attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference in Japanese and Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 74, 165-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.004

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2013). Evaluation of (im)politeness: A comparative study among Japanese students, Japanese parents and American students on evaluation of attentiveness. Pragmatics 23 (2), 275-299. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.23.2.04fuk 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2011). A cross-generational and cross-cultural study on demonstration of attentiveness. Pragmatics21 (4), 549-571. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.4.03fuk 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2009). Evaluation of politeness: Do the Japanese evaluate attentiveness more positively than the British? Pragmatics 19 (4), 501-518. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19.4.01fuk 

 

Conference Presentations

Plenary talk 

Fukushima, Saeko. (2019). The mechanism of attentiveness: An interdisciplinary approach to (im)politeness. The First International Symposium on East Asian Pragmatics, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China, 19-21 September 2019. 

 

Presentations at international conferences (refereed) (since 2010)

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2019). Attentiveness and im/politeness. 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 9–14 June 2019. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko, and Christopher Long. (2019). Hospitality in intercultural service encounters: Omotenashi from the perspective of Japanese business. 12th International Conference on Im/politeness, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, 17-19 July 2019. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko, and Dániel Z. Kádár. (2018). Local moral order(s): A case study of conventionalised e-politeness in Japanese. 11th International Conference on Im/politeness, University of Valencia, Spain, 4–6 July 2018. 

  • Long, Christopher, and Saeko Fukushima. (2018). Emic perceptions of omotenashi style hospitality in Japanese. 11th International Conference on Im/politeness, University of Valencia, Spain, 4–6 July 2018. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2017). An intra-cultural investigation of the conceptualization of politeness. The 10th International Symposium on Politeness at York St. John University, UK, 12–14 July 2017. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2016). Emic perceptions of attentiveness in Japanese: An investigation from a multidisciplinary perspective. 4th Linguistic Impoliteness, Aggression and Rudeness Conference, LIAR IV, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 12–14 July 2016. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2015). A comparative study on attentiveness and its related concepts in Japanese and English. 9thInternational Im/Politeness Conference, University of Athens, Greece, July 1–3 2015. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2014). An investigation of attentiveness. 8th International Politeness Symposium, University of Huddersfield, UK, 9–11 July 2014. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2013). Metapragmatics of im/politeness: An investigation of interview data on attentiveness, empathy and inference in Japanese. 13th International Pragmatics Association Conference, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, 8–13 September 2013. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2012). The metapragmatics of attentiveness, empathy and inference in Japanese and Chinese. Linguistic Impoliteness, Aggression and Rudeness Conference (LIAR III): Experimental and empirical approaches to politeness and impoliteness, University of Illinois, USA, 29–31 August 2012. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2011). Evaluation of politeness: A comparative study between generations and cultures on attentiveness. 12th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 3–8 July 2011. 

  • Fukushima, Saeko. (2010). Demonstration of attentiveness: A comparative study between generations and cultures. 5thInternational Symposium on Politeness, University of Basel, Switzerland, 30 June–2 July 2010. 

 

Invited Member in International Conference Boards

Invited scientific committee member, the 8th International Politeness Symposium, University of Huddersfield, 9-11 July 2014. 

Invited scientific committee member, the 9th International Im/politeness conference, University of Athens, 1-3 July 2015.  

 

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught (Undergraduate courses)

Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, English as a Foreign Language, Language and Culture, Introduction to Communication, English Linguistics 

 

Courses Taught (Graduate courses) 

Seminar on English Linguistics, Study on English Linguistics 

 

Administrative Experience

Head of Department of English, Tsuru University (2005–2007) 

Deputy Head of Department of English, Tsuru University (1997–2000) 

 

Head of English Linguistics, British and American Literature Course, Graduate School, Tsuru University (2003–2005) 

 

Committee member of various promotions and new appointments in the Faculty 

 

Research Evaluation

Referee for papers submitted to academic journals, including Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Politeness Research,Intercultural Pragmatics, East Asian Pragmatics, Contrastive Pragmatics, and Pragmatics (Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association).  

 

Research Project

Project collaborator of Collaborative Research Project: Multiple Approaches to Analyzing the Communication of Japanese Language Learners at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (April 2019–present) 

 

Editorial Board Member

East Asian Pragmatics (Equinox) (since 2019) 

 

Membership of Professional Societies

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 

Linguistic Politeness Research Group 

The Pragmatics Society of Japan 

The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences 

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