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  1. The Epistemology of Retweeting and The Ethics of Trust.Rick Kenney & Kimiko Akita - 2012 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 27 (1):68-70.
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 68-70, January-March.
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    Phonation Types Matter in Sound Symbolism.Kimi Akita - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (5):e12982.
    Sound symbolism is a non‐arbitrary correspondence between sound and meaning. The majority of studies on sound symbolism have focused on consonants and vowels, and the sound‐symbolic properties of suprasegmentals, particularly phonation types, have been largely neglected. This study examines the size and shape symbolism of four phonation types: modal and creaky voices, falsetto, and whisper. Japanese speakers heard 12 novel words (e.g., /íbi/, /ápa/) pronounced with the four types of phonation and rated the size and roundedness/pointedness each of the 48 (...)
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    Toward a frame-semantic definition of sound-symbolic words: A collocational analysis of Japanese mimetics.Kimi Akita - 2012 - Cognitive Linguistics 23 (1):67-90.
    This article presents empirical evidence of the high referential specificity of sound-symbolic words, based on a FrameNet-aided analysis of collocational data of Japanese mimetics. The definition of mimetics, particularly their semantic definition, has been crosslinguistically the most challenging problem in the literature, and different researchers have used different adjectives (most notably, “vivid,” since Doke 1935) to describe their semantic peculiarity. The present study approaches this longstanding issue from a frame-semantic point of view combined with a quantitative method. It was found (...)
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    Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents.Hinano Iida & Kimi Akita - 2024 - Cognitive Science 48 (12):e70031.
    Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance between the form and meaning of a sign. Compelling evidence from diverse areas of the cognitive sciences suggests that iconicity plays a pivotal role in the processing, memory, learning, and evolution of both spoken and signed language, indicating that iconicity is a general property of language. However, the language‐specific aspect of iconicity, illustrated by the fact that the meanings of ideophones in an unfamiliar language are hard to guess (e.g., shigeshige ‘staring at something’ in (...)
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    Made in Japan: Connecting the Dots through Contemporary Communitarianism’s Intellectual History.Rick Kenney & Kimiko Akita - 2018 - Journal of Media Ethics 33 (4):170-180.
    ABSTRACTTwenty-five years ago, Christians, Ferré, and Fackler’s Good News: Social Ethics and the Press proposed the then-radical notion of communitarianism as an alternative moral philosophy for media ethics. This article evaluates communitarianism as a media ethic, but not only according to the work already done by Christians and colleagues. Instead, this article extends the communitarian ideal by connecting it, in a new way, to notions espoused a half century earlier by Tetsuro Watsuji, a Japanese philosopher whose prescriptions of ethics in (...)
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    When west writes east: In search of an ethic for cross-cultural interviewing.Rick Kenney & Kimiko Akita - 2008 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 23 (4):280 – 295.
    Cross-cultural interviewing can pose challenges for journalists, given potential differences in language, word choice, volume, body posture, and group dynamics. This article explores some of the complexities of cross-cultural interviews with the dual aim of heightening awareness of ethical considerations for journalists who conduct them and of discussing ethical principles that may help in guiding their work. This article attempts to move the discussion of cross-cultural interviews beyond traditional Western ethics. Eastern moral philosophy and ideals of trust and human relations (...)
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