Noriko Ishihara

BOOKS

Ishihara, N. (with Cohen, A. D.) (2022). Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet (2nd ed.). Routledge. 

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Ishihara, N. (author/translator) & Cohen, A. (author, March). (2015). 多文化理解の語学教育　語用論的指導への招待 [Language teaching for multicultural understanding: An invitation to pragmatics instruction] (abridged translation and revision of Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet) Tokyo: Kenkyusha.

 

Ishihara, N. & Cohen, A. D. (2014, May). Teaching and learning pragmatics: Where language and culture meet. Abingdon, England: Routledge. (First published 2010 by Pearson Education.)

 

Ishihara, N. & Maeda, M. (2010, January). Advanced Japanese: Communication in context『ことばと文化の交差点: 文化で読み解く日本語 』[Kotobato Bunkano Kousaten: Bunkade Yomitoku Nippongo]. London: Routledge.

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JOURNAL ARTICLES

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Ishihara, N. (2025). Criticality and creativity in L2 pragmatics: Supporting linguistic justice through pragmatics instruction. JALT Journal 47(2), 181–195. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTJJ47.2-3​

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Ishihara, N. (2024). Fostering a translingual framework in teacher education focused on pragmatics: Identity and the multilingual turn in pragmatics pedagogy. System, 125, 103457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2024.103457

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Estival, D., Prado, M., & Ishihara, N. (2023). Not using standard phraseology: misunderstandings and delays. Applied Linguistics Papers, 27(2), 4-28. https://doi.org/10.32612/uw.25449354.2023.2.pp.4-28

 

Ishihara, N., & Lee, H. E. (2021). Face and (im)politeness in aviation English: The pragmatics of radiotelephony communications. Journal of Pragmatics, 180, 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.030

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Ishihara, N., & Prado, M. C. A. (2021). The negotiation of meaning in aviation English as a lingua franca: A corpus-informed discursive approach. Modern Language Journal 105 (3), 639-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12718 

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Ishihara, N., Carroll, S., Mahler, D., & Russo, A. (2018). Finding a niche in teaching English in Japan: Translingual agency and identity negotiation. System, 79, 81-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.06.006 

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Taguchi, N., & Ishihara, N. (2018). The pragmatics of English as a lingua franca: Research and pedagogy in the era of globalization. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 80-101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190518000028

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Ishihara, N., & Menard-Warwick, J. (2018). In “sociocultural in-betweenness”: Exploring teachers’ translingual identity development through narratives. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication (MULTI), 37(3), 255-274. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2016-0086

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Ishihara, N. (2017). Teaching pragmatics in support of learner subjectivity and global communicative needs: A peace linguistics perspective. Idee in Form@zione [Idea in formation: Journal of Teacher Education, Professionalism and educational effectiveness. Official Journal of the National Association of Teacher Trainers and Supervisors, Italy], 6(5), 17-32.

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Ishihara, N., & Richieri, C. (2016). A teacher development program for primary English teachers in Italy: A blended approach to learning English and language teaching methodology. In S. Sasajima, Y. Ehara, & A. Shimura (Eds.), 言語教師認知研究 研究収録 2016 [Language Teacher Cognition Research Bulletin 2016] (pp. 109-126). Tokyo: JACET 言語教師認知研究会 [Japan Association of College English Teaching Special Interest Group on Language Teacher Cognition] Accessible from: https://app.box.com/s/p5ri9f7gvmqbjfe75sru5a6268gzciz2

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Ishihara, N., & Chiba, A. (2014). Teacher-based or interactional?: Exploring assessments for children's pragmatic development. Iranian Journal of Language Testing, 4(1), 84-112.

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Ishihara, N. (2013). Is it rude language?: Children learning pragmatics through visual narratives. TESL Canada Journal, 30(3), 135-149. Accessible from: http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca/index.php/tesl/article/viewFile/1157/976 

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Ishihara, N. (2012). Critical narratives for teaching pragmatics: Application to teacher education. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, 1(2), 5-17.

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Ishihara, N. (2012). Incorporating a critical approach to teaching pragmatics: A story-based approach. International Journal of Innovation in English Language Teaching & Research (IJIELTR), 1(1), 29-36.

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Ishihara, N., & Cohen, A. (2012). Teaching and learning pragmatics: Response to Peter Grundy. ELT Journal, 66(2), 377-379.

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Ishihara, N. (2011). Co-constructing pragmatic awareness: Instructional pragmatics in EFL teacher development in Japan. TESL-EJ, 15(2). Accessible at: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej58/ej58a2/.

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Ishihara, N. (2010). Instructional pragmatics: Bridging teaching, research, and teacher education. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4(10), 938-953.

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Ishihara, N. (2009). Teacher-based assessment for foreign language pragmatics. TESOL Quarterly, 43(3), 445-470.

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Ishihara, N. (2007). Web-based curriculum for pragmatics instruction in Japanese as a foreign language: An explicit awareness-raising approach. Language Awareness, 16(1), 21-40.

Lazaraton, A. & Ishihara, N. (2005). Understanding second language teacher practice using microanalysis and self-reflection: A collaborative case study. Modern Language Journal, 89 (4), 529-542.

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Ishihara, N. (2004). Exploring the immediate and delayed effects of formal instruction: Teaching giving and responding to compliments. MinneWI TESOL Journal (Minnesota and Wisconsin Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Journal), 21, 37-70.

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Ishihara, N. (2003). Curriculum components of the practicum in ESL. MinneWI TESOL Journal (Minnesota and Wisconsin Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Journal), 20, 1-20.

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Ishihara, N. (2003). "I wish I would have known!": The usage of would have in past counterfactual if- and wish-clauses. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 14(1), 21-48.

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BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Ishihara, N. (2026). Introducing intercultural citizenship in a classroom in Japan: Telecollaboration and an arts-based approach to understanding social activism. In T. McConachy (Ed.), International perspectives on intercultural understanding in ELT (pp. 45-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11272-9_3

 

Ishihara, N. (forthcoming). A poetic autoethnography of letting a loved one go: Reflections on life prolonging and ambiguous loss. In G. Park (Ed.), Making of poetic autoethnography in composition and applied linguistics.

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Cohen, A. D., Grajinskaya, E., & Ishihara, N. (in press). The Development of L2 Pragmatics Materials. In B. Tomlinson & F. Mishan (Eds.), Applied linguistics and materials development: Bloomsbury.

 

Allen, T., Ishihara, N., Chiba, A., & Campbell-Larsen, J. (2025). Using AI for pragmatics instruction: Opportunities and challenges in language education. In L. Ohashi (Ed.), Artificial intelligence in our language learning classrooms: Life and education in Japan series (pp. 78–98): Candlin Mynard.

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​Prado, M. C. d. A., & Ishihara, N. (2025). Pragmatic strategies in the aeronautical community of practice. In E. Friginal, M. Prado, & J. Roberts (Eds.), Global aviation English research (pp. 77-94). Bloomsbury.​​

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Ishihara, N. (2023). Identity in second language pragmatics research. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1-5; online https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal9781405120058): Wiley.

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Ishihara, N., Porcellato, A. M., & Prado, M. C. d. A. (2023). Teachers' identity and agency in L2 pragmatics: Supporting teachers' translingual identity as pedagogy through narratives. In A. Martínez-Flor, A. Sánchez-Hernández, & J. Barón (Eds.), L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process (pp. 89-111). John Benjamins.

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Ishihara, N., & Porcellato, A. M. (2022). Co-constructing non-essentialist pedagogy: Supporting teachers to support learners’ translingual agency through L2 pragmatics instruction. In T. McConachy & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), Teaching and learning L2 pragmatics for intercultural understanding (pp. 151-172). Routledge.

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石原& 関本 (2022). 多文化コミュニケーションの実践で培われる自己相対化能力：日米大学のCOIL共修活動から. 村田晶子（編著）『オンライン国際交流と協働学習』[Intercultural virtual exchange and collaborative learning] (pp. 177-194). くろしお出版

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Ishihara, N. (2021). From a native-nonnative speaker dichotomy to a translingual framework. In J. C. Félix-Brasdefer, R. L. Shively, & J. M. Sykes (Eds.), New directions in researching, teaching, and assessing L2 pragmatics (pp. 300-313). Berlin: De Gruyter. De Gruyter.

 

Ishihara, N. (2021). Teaching the pragmatics of English as an international language: Practitioners' perspectives informing language teacher development. In Z. Tajeddin & M. Alemi (Eds.), Pragmatics pedagogy in English as an international language (pp. 155-171). London: Routledge.

 

Ishihara, N. (2020). The language of respect and dignity for intercultural understanding and conflict resolution: Application to diplomacy and education. In C. Chowdhury, M. Britton, & L. Hartling (Eds.), Human Dignity: Practices, Discourses, and Transformations (pp. 97-111). Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press.

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Ishihara, N. (2019). Understanding English language learners' pragmatic resistance and subjectivity. In A. Gao, C. Davison, & C. Leung (Eds.), International handbook of English language teaching (2nd ed.) (pp. 1-21). Boston: Springer.

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Ishihara, N. (2019). Identity and agency in L2 pragmatics. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), Routledge handbook of SLA and pragmatics (pp. 161-175). New York: Routledge.

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Ishihara, N., Orihashi, T., & Clark, Z. (2019). Innovations in elementary classrooms: Integrating the teaching of English, history, and peace linguistics. In H. Reinders, S. Ryan, & S. Nakao (Eds.), Innovations in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of Japan (pp. 47-69). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Ishihara, N. (2018). Intercultural pragmatic failure. In J. Liontas et al. (Eds.), The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Ishihara, N. (2016). Softening or intensifying your language in oppositional talk: Disagreeing agreeably or defiantly. In P. Friedrich (Ed.), English for Diplomatic Purposes (pp. 20-41). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

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Ishihara, N., & Paller, D. L. (2016). Research-informed materials for teaching pragmatics: The case of agreement and disagreement in English. In B. Tomlinson (Ed.), SLA research and materials development for language learning (pp. 87-102). London: Routledge.

 

Ishihara, N. (2016). Thanks from the bottom of my heart: Teaching elaborate thanks in written English. In D. Tatsuki & D. Fujimoto (Eds.), Back to basics: Filling the gaps in pragmatics teaching materials (pp. 108-122). Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

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Yamashita, S., & Ishihara, N. (2016). An integrated grammar-pragmatics approach: Teaching style shifting in Japanese. In A. Benati & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Theory, research, and pedagogy in learning and teaching Japanese grammar (pp. 187-218): Palgrave Macmillan.

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Ishihara, N. (2015). Identity and pragmatics: Implications for second language acquisition and instruction. In M. R. Moradian (Ed.), New trends & criticisms in English language teaching & literature. The proceedings of the 13th International TELLSI Conference (pp. 466-473). Khorramabad, Iran: Lorestan State University.

 

Ishihara, N., & Takamiya, Y. (2014). Pragmatic development through blogs: A longitudinal study of telecollaboration and language socialization. In S. Li & P. Swanson (Eds.), Engaging language learners through technology integration: Theory, applications, and outcomes (pp. 137-161). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

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Ishihara, N. (2013). Teacher-based assessment of L2 Japanese pragmatics: Classroom applications. In S. Ross & G. Kasper (Eds.), Assessing second language pragmatics (pp. 124-148). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

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石原. (2013). 語用論的能力の発達 [Pragmatic development]. In 『第二言語習得と英語科教育法』 [Research in second language acquisition and English teaching methodology] JACET SLA研究会 (pp. 92-104). 東京 Tokyo: 開拓社.

 

Cohen, A., & Ishihara, N. (2013). Pragmatics. In B. Tomlinson (Ed.), Applied linguistics and materials development (pp. 113-126). London: Bloomsbury.

 

Ishihara, N. (2013). Andrew D. Cohen. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 1-3). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Takamiya, Y., & Ishihara, N. (2013). Blogging: Cross-cultural interaction for pragmatic development. In N. Taguchi & J. Sykes (Eds.), Technology in interlanguage pragmatics research and teaching (pp. 185-214). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.

 

Ishihara, N. (2012). Stories for children: My dog never says "please". In J. Ronald, C. Rinnert, K. Fordyce & T. Knight (Eds.), Pragtivities: Bringing pragmatics to second language classrooms (pp. 189-192). Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

 

Ishihara, N. (2012). Stories for children: The talking dog. In J. Ronald, C. Rinnert, K. Fordyce & T. Knight (Eds.), Pragtivities: Bringing pragmatics to second language classrooms (pp. 193-196). Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

 

Ishihara, N. (2012). Moving from North America to overseas. In R. Kubota & Y. Sun (Eds.), Demystifying career after graduate school: A guide for second language professionals in higher education (pp. 77-87). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

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Ishihara, N. (2010). Assessing learners’ pragmatic ability in the classroom. In D. Tatsuki & N. Houck (Eds.), Pragmatics: Teaching speech acts (pp. 209-227). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

 

Akikawa, K., & Ishihara, N. (2010). “Please write a recommendation letter”: Teaching to write e-mail requests to faculty. In D. Tatsuki & N. Houck (Eds.), Pragmatics: Teaching speech acts (pp. 47-66). Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

 

Ishihara, N. (2010). Maintaining an optimal distance: Nonnative speakers’ pragmatic choice. In A. Mahboob (Ed.), The NNEST Lens: Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (Vol. 1, pp. 35-53). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
 

Ishihara, N. (2010). Compliments and responses to compliments: Learning communication in context. In A. Martínez-Flor & E. Usó-Juan (Eds.), Speech act performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues (pp. 179-198). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins.

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Ishihara, N. & Tarone, E. (2009). Subjectivity and pragmatic choice in L2 Japanese: Emulating and resisting pragmatic norms. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), Pragmatic competence: Mouton series in pragmatics 5 (pp. 101-128). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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Ishihara, N. (2009). Transforming community norms: Potentials of L2 speakers’ pragmatic resistance. In M. Hood (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2008 Temple University Japan colloquium on language learning (pp. 1-10). Tokyo: Temple University Japan.

Ishihara, N. (2005). Intercultural challenges and cultural scaffolding: The experience of a nonnative English-speaking student teacher in a US practicum in second language teaching. In M. Bigelow & C. Walker (Eds.), Creating teacher community: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Teacher Education (pp. 153-173). Minneapolis, MN: Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.

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Ishihara, N. (2003). Giving and responding to compliments. In K. Bardovi-Harlig & R. Mahan-Taylor (Eds.), Teaching pragmatics. Washington DC: Office of English Programs, U.S. Department of State. Available at: http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/pragmatics/ishihara.htm.

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OTHERS

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Ishihara, N. (2022). Enhancing interactive engagement online: Linking speakership and listenership for (online) communication. In D. Tatsuki (Ed.), Innovations in the teaching of pragmatics (pp. 115-120). Tokyo: JALT Pragmatics SIG.

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Ishihara, N. (2020). Going beyond the icing on the gingerbread: Teaching pragmatics more regularly, systematically, and communicatively. In J. Tarandis, J. Ronald, D. Fujimoto, & N. Ishihara (Eds.), Pragmatics undercover: The search for natural talk in EFL textbooks (pp. 21-28). Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

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Ishihara, N. (2019). An invitation to "Invitations and Greetings:" New resource pages on the CARLA database. Pragmatic Matters: JALT Pragmatics SIG Newsletter, 54, 3-5.

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Ishihara, N. (2016). Thanks from the bottom of my heart: Teaching elaborate thanks in written English. In D. Tatsuki & D. Fujimoto (Eds.), Back to basics: Filling the gaps in pragmatics teaching materials (pp. 108-122). Tokyo: The Japan Association for Language Teaching Pragmatics Special Interest Group.

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Ishihara, N. (5/11/2015). L2 pragmatics and subjectivity. A newsletter article in InterCom, Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), University of Oregon.

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Ishihara, N., Asaba, M., Burke, M., Chiba, A., & Mboutsiadis, B. (2012). Visual narratives for L2 pragmatic learning: Sociocultural literacy development. Pragmatic Matters: JALT Pragmatics SIG Newsletter, 39(2), 10-13.

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Ishihara, N. (2011). Teaching to develop learners' sociocultural competence. Soleado (a publication of dual language education of New Mexico), Spring 2011, 6-7.

 

Ishihara, N., & Cohen, A. D. (2011). Why worry at all about pragmatics in language learning? Voices: The Longman Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Magazine, April 2011(1), 9.

 

Cohen, A., & Ishihara, N. (2010). Interview with Andrew Cohen (April 9¸ 2010) about the Ishihara & Cohen volume¸ Teaching and Learning Pragmatics¸ with a comment by Noriko Ishihara. Pearson Longman English Newsletter.
 

Ishihara, N. (2009). Critical pragmatics and intercultural communication (IC): Learner subjectivity in pragmatics and IC. ICIS Newsletter (The Newsletter of TESOL's Intercultural Communication Interest Section). Available at: http://www.tesol.org:80//s_tesol/article.asp?vid=184&DID=12605&sid=1&cid=751&iid=12601&nid=3244.

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Ishihara, N. (2009). Conference Report: The 11th International Pragmatics Conference (translation by Ishihara). Pragmatic Matters: JALT Pragmatics SIG Newsletter, 10 (2), 3-6 (Japanese version).
 

Ishihara, N. (2009). Dissertation awardee spotlight: Letter from Noriko Ishihara. American Educational Research Association Second Language Research Special Interest Group Newsletter, 7, 5.

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Ishihara, N. (2008). Web watch: Dancing with Words: Strategies for Learning Pragmatics in Spanish. Pragmatic Matters: JALT Pragmatics SIG Newsletter, 9(1), 3 (English), 3 (Japanese, translated by Ishihara).

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Ishihara, N. & Maeda, M. (2005). Multiple identities emerge through collaboration. Essential Teacher Compleatlinks 2005, 2(4). Available at: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/secetdoc.asp?CID=1162&DID=5079.

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Ishihara, N., & Maeda, M. (2005). Collegial in-service teacher collaboration as professional development: Transcending traditional dichotomies. Teacher Education Interest Section Newsletter 20(2). Available at: http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/article.asp?vid=167&DID=4138&sid= 1&cid= 738&iid=4131&nid=3091.

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Cohen, A. D., & Ishihara, N. (2005). A Web-based approach to strategic learning of speech acts. Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Report. Available from the link at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/speechacts/research.html.

 

Ishihara, N., & Chi, J. (2004). Authentic video in the beginning ESOL classroom: Using a full-length feature film for listening and speaking strategy practice. English Teaching Forum, 42(1), 30-35. Available from the link at: http://eca.state.gov/forum/vols/vol42/no1/p30.htm

Ishihara, N. (2003). Formal instruction on the speech act of giving and responding to compliments. Proceedings of the 7th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics 62-78.

 

Cohen, A. D., & Ishihara, N. (2003). Interview with Andrew Cohen and Noriko Ishihara. Pragmatic Matters: JALT Pragmatics SIG Newsletter, 4(3), 3-5 (English), 3-5 (Japanese, translated by Ishihara).

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