Faculty and Researchers

British English, Literature, and Culture

Linguistics, Japanese Korean contrastive linguistics

Verbs express motion and action, and change form as they become the predicates for various clauses. Among them, we give thought to ways of expressing “action” that continues to occur and evolve in the flow of time.

Sociolinguistics; Language education; Cultural Anthropology

Literature and Thought of Germany and Austria 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Building on the relationship between words and performance, we study the true value of literature as manifested in an era of social media and e-books.

Chinese Classical Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History

I am in charge of the Comprehensive Chinese 1–4 courses, and the certificate exam preparatory classes for the Kinki University Language Institute (KULI). Japanese students will likely feel at ease since written Chinese is represented using familiar kanji characters. From there, we proceed with instruction centered on pronunciation. Learn to speak beautiful Chinese that sounds like music! My specialty is literary theory of classical Chinese.

Translation Studies, Stylistics

By comparing Japanese and English translations, we study how humans think, as well as ideas and culture rooted in words. In classes, we pursue techniques and methodologies to create written text with accurate expressions and appropriate concepts for each language.