Researchers

MORITA Emma

MORITA Emma
Professor
Faculty Major in Global Studies
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/emma_tamaianu-morita

Education and Career

Education

  • 1986/10 - 1990/06 , Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters,
  • 1994/04 - 2000/12 , Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters,

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2016 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of International Studies Professor
  • Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2016 , Akita Unversity Faculty of Education and Human Studies Professor
  • Feb. 2002 - Mar. 2009 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
  • Sep. 1999 - Feb. 2002 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Assistant Professor
  • Feb. 1994 - Sep. 1999 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Lecturer
  • Oct. 1990 - Feb. 1994 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Assistant

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, English linguistics

Research Interests

Eugenio Coseriu Integral Linguistics, text typology, cultural semiotics, contrastive linguistics, text linguistics, translation analysis

Published Papers

  1. Over-specification in Japanese translations of “Song of Myself”
    Emma Tamaianu-Morita
    TIES (Journal of Literature Text, Image and Sound): Speaking in Tongues: Celebrating Walt Whitman in Translation  (7)  , 120-140, Dec. 2022  , Refereed
  2. A Coserian Outlook on Textual Meaning – With Some Observations Regarding the Process of Translation
    Emma Tamaianu-Morita
    Ofelia Ichim et.al. (eds.), Provocări trecute și prezente în evoluția limbii, literaturii și culturii române, Timișoara: Editura Universității de Vest  , 581-596, Dec. 2022  , Refereed
  3. Beyond the poetic: Exploring the general mechanisms of textual sense construction
    Emma Tamaianu-Morita
    Elena Faur, Diana Feurdean, Iulia Pop (eds.), La izvoarele imaginatiei creatoare. Studii si evocari in onoarea profesorului Mircea Borcila, Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut & Eikon  , 592-617, Dec. 2022 

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Books etc

  1. Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, Special Issue of “American, British and Canadian Studies”, Vol. 41 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Lucian Blaga University Press, Sibiu , Dec. 2023
  2. Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (II), Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 16 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Suceava: Suceava University Press , Dec. 2021
  3. Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I), Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 15 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Suceava: Suceava University Press , Dec. 2021

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. E. Coseriu’s correspondence: The Japanese connection. Glimpses into the destiny of linguistic ideas and their (human) context , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , International Symposium “Epistolary echoes: Eugenio Coseriu’s correspondence and what we can learn from digital letter collections”, Zurich University , 8, Mar. 2024
  2. Eugenio Coseriu on the function of expression gaps. An interpretation , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , International Colloquium “Eugenio Coseriu and present-day linguistics”, “ZILELE SEXTIL PUSCARIU”, 6th edition , 15, Sep. 2023
  3. Of plum trees, lotuses and snakes: Cultural functions of naming and re-naming in Japanese toponymy , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Sixth International Conference on Onomastics Name and Naming (ICONN 6), “(In)correctness in Onomastics” , 6, Sep. 2023

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MISC

  1. Being // Non-being as Vectors of Thought and Expression , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Editor’s Note to Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, Special Issue of “American, British and Canadian Studies” , 41 , 1 , 1 , 8 , Dec. 2023
  2. Introductory Note , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Emma Tămâianu-Morita (ed.), Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I). Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, Suceava: Suceava University Press , 16 , 11 , 14 , Dec. 2021
  3. Coseriu 100, 50, 20 – What numbers count (for) in a life in science , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Opening statement to Emma Tămâianu-Morita (ed.), Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I). Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 15/2021, Suceava: Suceava University Press , 15 , 11 , 21 , Dec. 2021

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Awards & Honors

  1. Sep. 2013, Ministry of National Education (Romania), Diploma of excellence (for outstanding contributions to promoting national cultural values and educational cooperation between Romania and Japan)
  2. Dec. 2003, Babes-Bolyai University, Diploma of didactic excellence (for introducing innovative teaching methods and quality assurance mechanisms)

Research Grants & Projects

  1. Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation II, Program 4, Partnerships in Priority Domains, Interactive System for the Analysis of Written Romanian. Theoretical Model and Implementation Technology - SINTEGRO
  2. Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation I - CEEX (Excellence Research), Software System For The Phrase Analysis of Romanian Texts. Theoretical Foundations and Implementation - SIASTRO
  3. Japan Foundation, Japanese language education fellowship, Development of a functional grammar textbook focused on intermediate constructions, addressed to Romanian university students specializing in Japanese

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