Yuki ISHIDA, Associate Professor
Subjects: Usage-based Linguistic Typology
Research fields: My research interest is the analysis of French literature in terms of linguistics and narratology. I am working on ideological and cultural issues such as self-identity, happiness, translation and Cross-cultural understanding. My current research deals with self-narrative and
happiness of self-narrative. Naoe KAWAKAMI, Associate Professor
Subjects: Teaching Japanese as a Second Language (Practical application)
Research fields: My research field is the historical study of Japanese language education. In particular, I am interested in the historical progress of the Japanese language in Japan and China. By analyzing Japanese learning and teaching from a historical perspective, I explore the significance, role and status of Japanese language education in society. I am also interested in studying training for non-native Japanese teachers. Tetsuta KOMATSUBARA, Associate Professor
Subjects: Rhetorical Communication Theory
Research fields: My main focus involves the field of figurative language study. Specific attention goes to pragmatic effects of metaphor and metonymy, to creative meaning in wordplay, and to grammatical constructions of figurative language. My theoretical orientation is mainly that of cognitive linguistics, with a special emphasis on conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive grammar. Miho SAITO, Associate Professor
Subjects: Teaching Japanese as a Second Language (Method)
Research fields: My main research interests are the analysis of modern Japanese grammar, including
regional dialects, and the teaching methods of Japanese as a second language to children with foreign
roots. In recent years, I have become particularly interested in supporting their acquisition of the
academic language. Junko TANAKA, Professor
Subjects: Second Language Acquisition
Research fields: My research interests include the role of feedback and output in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) processes and the role of individual differences in SLA such as age, language aptitude, and motivation. My current research project deals with how a concept in a second language (L2) that does not exist in the learners’ first language (L1) can be correctly or incorrectly segmented and mapped onto L2 morphology. I am also interested in classroom SLA as well as SLA in naturalistic or multilingual contexts. Yusuke MINAMI, Associate Professor
Subjects: Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics
Research fields: My primary interest lies in analyzing grammatical constructions in English and Japanese from the perspective of cognitive and functional linguistics, which holds that linguistic signs are motivated by human cognitive abilities and communicative purposes. My main works include shedding light on grammatical constructions that have not drawn much attention in the literature and exploring what they reveal about the organization of the speaker’s linguistic knowledge. Haitao WANG, Assistant Professor
Subjects: Teaching Japanese as a Second Language (Content)
Research fields: My research focuses primarily on Japanese linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Specifically, I explore the semantic structures of polysemous words using empirical methods such as corpus-based approaches. Recently, with the development of artificial intelligence and language models, I have been advancing my research on the semantic structures of vocabulary using lexical space models adapted to the characteristics of Japanese. |