Faculty Information - WILLIAMSON Josef | Daito Bunka University

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WILLIAMSON Josef

Department Daito Bunka University Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Management

Job Associate Professor

Present specialized field
English as a Second Language (ESOL), English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Business Communication, English Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication

Academic background
1.	2004/09～2005/06	English Language Teaching to Adults (ELTA) Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults Embassy CES Finished Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults (DELTA)
2.	2014/10～2016/09	Master Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Faculty of Development and Society, Department of Education, Childhood and Inclusion Sheffield Hallam University Finished Master of Arts TESOL

Business career
1.	2006/09 ～ 2018/04	Senior Instructor Linguage (Sumikin Intercom) Training Department
2.	2016/09 ～	Instructor JGC Corp. Dispatched by Ibex Network
3.	2016/10 ～	Lecturer National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Center of Professional Communications (CPC)
4.	2017/04 ～ 2019/03	Part-time Lecturer Showa Women's University General Education Center
5.	2018/04 ～ 2019/03	Part-time Lecturer Dokkyo University Faculty of Economics
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Academic conference
1.	2013/05 ～	The Japan Association for Language Teaching
2.	2014/05 ～	JALT Pragmatics SIG
3.	2015/05 ～	JALT Business Communication SIG
4.	2015/11 ～ 2018/11	∟ Chair of Publications
5.	2018/11 ～	∟ Assistant Editor
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Books and Papers
1.	Papers	The Influence of discourse participation styles on marginalization in intercultural meetings. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (Sole-authored) 2025
2.	Papers	Discourse participation styles in English as a lingua franca meetings Daito Bunka Keieironshu (44),pp.1-14 (Sole-authored) 2023/03
3.	Papers	Participation styles, turn-taking strategies, and marginalization in intercultural decision-making discourse. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly 85 (4),pp.445-467 (Sole-authored) 2022/12
4.	Papers	Discursive leadership in intercultural group decision-making. Daito Bunka Keieironshu (42/43),pp.169-188 (Sole-authored) 2022/03
5.	Papers	What should we call each other? A negotiation of nominal address between an American official and a Japanese businessman. Journal of Intercultural Communication 24,pp.1-17 (Sole-authored) 2021
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/07/24	Discourse marginalization examined through the lens of participation styles: Intercultural meetings between government officials (International Academy for Intercultural Research)
2.	2022/11/19	The negotiation of nominal address forms in a Japanese-American BELF email correspondence (13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca)
3.	2021/11/27	Discursive leadership in ELF decision-making meetings (Participation styles) (SIETAR Japan)
4.	2020/10/28	A Bridge Too Far? The Challenge of Pragmatic Accommodation to Western-oriented Decision-making Meeting Styles for Japanese Professionals. (Association for Business Communication)
5.	2020/06/20	Pragmatics issues in ELF: Views from a Business English perspective. (Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT))
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Educational ability

●Prepared Textbook and Other Teaching Materials

1.	2012	Williamson, J., & Dingledy-Rodie, A. (2012). Guinness World Records: Reading 1. Tokyo, Macmillan Language House.
2.	2020	Williamson, J. (2020). Aizuchi analysis. In J. Talandis, J. Ronald, D. Fujimoto & N. Ishihara (Eds.), Pragmatics Undercover: The Search for Natural Talk in EFL Textbooks (pp. 104-107). Tokyo: JALT Pragmatics SIG.
3.	2020	Williamson, J. (2020). Stop the story. In J. Talandis, J. Ronald, D. Fujimoto & N. Ishihara (Eds.), Pragmatics Undercover: The Search for Natural Talk in EFL Textbooks (pp. 70-73). Tokyo: JALT Pragmatics SIG.

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Awards
1.	2017/11	The Japan Association for Language Teachers Best of JALT (Best of JALT)

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ORCID ID
0000-0001-8292-428X