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092-802-6034

092-802-6034

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cognitive linguistics

01years00months

Descriptive and theoretical research in grammaticalization, subjectification, intersubjectification, and constructionalization from a usage-based perspective.
Semantics and pragmatics of conditional, reason and concessive sentences.
Nonspecific reference in discourse.
Application of a cognitive approach to language to English education.

Research Interests

• Descriptive and theoretical research in semantic change of words and constructions and the process and motivations of semantic extension. Development of concessive meaning and semantic extension from concession. Development of interpersonal functions.
  keyword : semantic change, constructionalization, constructional change, concessive construction, interpersonal function, discourse marker, subjectification, intersubjectification
  2023.04～2024.03.
• Descriptive and theoretical research in semantic change of words and constructions and the process and motivations of semantic extension. Development of concessive meaning and semantic extension from concession. Development of interpersonal functions.
  keyword : semantic change, constructionalization, constructional change, concessive construction, interpersonal function, discourse marker, subjectification, intersubjectification
  2021.04～2022.03.
• Descriptive and theoretical study semantic change of constructions, process of semantic extension and its related factors. Development of concessive meaning and semantic extension from concessive meaning.
  Development of intensifiers.
  keyword : semantic change, grammaticalization, constructionalization, subjectfication, intersubjectification, cognitive grammar, frame semantics, construction, intensifier, corpus, usage-based
  2020.04～2020.06.
• semantic change of words and constructions; descriptive and theoretical research in the process of semantic extension and factors involved in the process; development of concessive meaning and extension from it; development of Intensifiers
  keyword : semantic change, grammaticalization, constructionalization, subjectification, intersubjectification, cognitive linguistics, frame semantics, construction, intensifier, corpus
  2019.04.
• Descriptive and theoretical research in semantic change and extension of words and constructions and the related factors. Development of concessive meaning and extension from it. Development of intensifier adverbs.
  keyword : semantic change, grammaticalization, constitutionalization, subjectivization, intersubjectivization, cognitive grammar, frame semantics, construction, intensifier adverb, corpus, usage-based
  2014.04～2015.12.
• Descriptive and theoretical research in semantic change and extension of words and constructions and the related factors. Development of concessive meaning and extension from it. Development of intensifier adverbs.
  keyword : semantic change, grammaticalization, constitutionalization, subjectivization, intersubjectivization, cognitive grammar, frame semantics, construction, intensifier adverb, corpus, usage-based
  2014.04～2015.12.

Current and Past Project

• Change from intersubjective meaning to interpersonal function and its cognitive motivation:Extension to multiple languages.
• Prescriptive anad theoretical study in semantic extension from concession

Academic Activities Membership in Academic Society

• International Cognitive Linguistics Association
• International Pragmatics Society
• UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
• The English Linguistic Society of Japan
• the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
• The English Literary Society of Japan
• The Linguistic Society of Japan
• The Society of English Grammar and Usage
• The Society of Japanese Grammar
• The Pragmatics Society of Japan
• The Japanese Association for English Corpus Studies
• The Japan Association of College English Teachers

Educational Activities Other Educational Activities

• 2022.10.