Major Publications (in English)
(A full list including Japanese publications is available upon request)


Edited Journal Issues and Books

1994
Special Issue on Metaphor and Iconicity, The Journal of Pragmatics22(1). Co-edited
with Joanna Radwanska-Williams. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

1995
Special Issue on Literary Pragmatics: Cognitive Metaphor and the Structure of the
Poetic Text, The Journal of Pragmatics24(6).Co-edited with Joanna Radwanska-Williams. Amsterdam: Elsevier..

1999
Cultural, Typological, and Psychological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics:
The Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association, Vol 3. Co-edited with
Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2005
Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Texts.

Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.


Research Papers (*Refereed Papers)
On Iconicity and Metaphor

1984
*"On Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Metaphor." Poetica 20: 91-99.

1987
*“Eternal Stillness: A Linguistic Journey to Basho's Haiku about the Cicada,” Poetics 
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1990
“Sound as Meaning: Iconicity in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Bells,’” Journal of the University of the Air 8: 1-23.

1991a
*"The Hidden Melodies: A Linguistic Analysis of a Japanese Tanka," Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Linguists (held in Berlin/GDR, 1987), edited by Werner Bahner, Joachim Schildt, and Dieter Viehweger, 1945-1949. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

1991b
*“Metaphor and Comparative Cultures.” Cross-Cultural Communication: East and West, Vol. 3, Tainan, Taiwan. 149-166.
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1991c
*“Metaphors Japanese Women Live By.” The Working Papers on Language, Gender and Sexism, Vol. 1, edited by Dede Brower, Anne Pauwels, and Joanne Winter. 38-57. Publication of the Scientific Commission of Language and Gender, International Association of Applied Linguistics, Monash University Printing Service.
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1993a
*“Iconicity in Poetry: How Poetic Form Embodies Meaning,” Semiotics 1990, edited by Karen Haworth, John Deely, and Terry Prewitt, 115-126. New York: University Press of America.

1993b
*“Iconic Meanings of Visual Repetition in Poetry,” Semiotics 1991, edited by John Deely and Terry Prewitt, 95-103. New York: University Press of America.

1994a
*“Diagrams and Metaphors: Iconic Aspects in Language,” The Journal of Pragmatics 22(1): 5-21.
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1994b
“Snow and Crow: Haiku Experience in Cultural Education.” Language and Literature XIX, pp. 1-17（単著）.
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1995a
“Vision as Meaning: Iconicity in Basho’s Haiku in Oku no Hosomichi,” Journal of the University of the Air 13: 109-125.

1995b
*“Pragmatics and Poetics: Cognitive Metaphor and the Structure of the Poetic Text” (co-authored with Joanna Radwanska-Williams). The Journal of Pragmatics 24 (6): 579-584.

1997-8
*“Japanese Metaphors for Learning.” Intercultural Communication Studies, Vol. VII, No. 2, 7-22.

1998
“Metaphor-Icon Link in Poetic Texts: A Cognitive Approach to Iconicity,” Journal of the University of the Air 16: 95-123.

1999a
*“Rough Sea and the Milky Way: ‘Blending’ in a Haiku Text.” Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents, edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, 27-36. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

1999b
*“DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical Base of Honorific Verb Construction in Japanese.” Cultural, Psychological, and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha, and Sherman Wilcox, 47-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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1999c
*“’Blending’ and an Interpretation of Haiku: A Cognitive Approach,” Poetics Today, 20(3): 461-481.
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2000a
“The Interplay of Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of London.

2000b
*“Iconicity as Principle of Composition and Interpretation: A Case Study in Japanese Short Poems.” Phonosymbolism and Poetic Language, edited by Patrizia Violi, 147-169. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
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2002a
*“The Interplay of Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Texts.” Special Issue on Metaphor, edited by Tomasz Komendzinski, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum: International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, VI/1, 179-244 [A revised and enlarged version of Hiraga 1998].
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2003a
*“How Metaphor and Iconicity Are Entwined in Poetry: A Case in Haiku.” From Sign to Signing, edited by W. Muller and O. Fisher. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 317-335. [An enlarged version of Hiraga 1999b].
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2006
*“Kanji: The Visual Metaphor.” Style, Vol. 40 (1-2), pp. 133-147.
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2008
*“Tao of Learning: Japanese Metaphors for Learning.” In Erich Berendt (Ed.), Metaphors for Education: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 55-72). Amsterdam: John Benjamins [a revised and enlarged version of Hiraga 1997-8].

2009
“Food for Thought: CONDUIT vs. FOOD Metaphors for Communication.” In K. Turner and B. Fraser (Eds.), Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift (pp. 165-171). Bingley, UK: Emerald

2011
*“Inner and Outer Body Parts: The Case of Hara ‘Belly’ and Koshi ‘Lower Back’ in Japanese” (co-authored with Tomokazu Nagai). In Zouhair Maalej & Ning Yu (Eds.), Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from Various Languages and Cultures (pp. 150-169). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

To appear (in 2013)
* “The Basho Code: Metaphor and Diagram in Two Haiku about Silence” (co-authored with Haj Ross). To be included in a volume in Iconicity in Language and Literature series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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On Intercultural Pragmatics

1995
*“What to Say Next?: The Problem of Elaboration for the Japanese Students of English” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner). JACET Bulletin 26: 13-30. Japanese Association of College English Teachers.
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1996a
*“Elaborating Elaboration in Academic Tutorials: Changing Cultural Assumptions” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner). Change and Language: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, edited by Hywel Coleman and Lynne Cameron. 131-140. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
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1996b
*“Differing Perceptions of Face in British and Japanese Academic Settings” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner). Language Sciences, Vol. 18, Nos. 3-4, 605-627.
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1996c
“Pragmatic Difficulties in Academic Discourse: A Case of Japanese Students of English” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner). Journal of the University of the Air 14: 91-109.
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1998a
“Face Work in Academic Settings: A Case of Japanese Students of English.” Eigogaku no Shosoo [Aspects of English Linguistics], edited by Minoji Akimoto et al. 257-276. Tokyo: Eichoo-sha.
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2001
“Selected Bibliography on L2 Pragmatics and Related Areas with Special Reference to Japanese Learners of English.” (co-authored with Kenji Sekiyama, Akiko Sakuma, Mariko Ohashi, and Chiho Sunakawa). Kotoba to Ningen: Journal of Yokohama Linguistic Circle, No. 3: 65-109.

2003b
* “Misunderstanding Teaching and Learning” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner). Misunderstanding in Social Life, edited by J. House, G. Kasper, and S. Ross, 154-172. London: Longman.
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2004
“L2 Pragmatics in Academic Discourse: A Case Study of Turorials in Britain” (co-authored with Joan M. Turner and Yoko Fujii). Intercultural Communication Studies, Special Issue for Professor Masanori Higa, XII(3), pp. 19-36 [An enlarged version of 1996c] .