Tomoko Yasutake: Academic CV
Last Update: 2021-11-05
Profile
Department of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, Aichi University of Education. (Position: Professor Emerita)
(See also the Website of Aichi University of Education (in English))
- Graduate School of Education
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
- M.A. English Linguistics. Tohoku University. 1972.
- B.A. English Linguistics. Tohoku University. 1970.
Professional Positions
- 2011- : Professor Emerita (Aichi University of Education)
- 1993-2010: Professor (Aichi University of Education)
- 1980-1993: Associate Professor (Aichi University of Education)
- 1976-1980: Assistant Professor (Aichi University of Education)
- 1974-1976: Lecturer (Aichi University of Education)
- 1972-1974: Lecturer (Research Institute of Japanese Culture, Tohoku University)
Visiting
- 1989-1990: Overseas Research Fellowship (The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture); Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
Research
Research Field
- Linguistics
- English linguistics
- Keywords: grammar, linguistic competence, syntactic category, semantic interpretation, information structure, discourse structure
Current Research Areas
- Discourse-syntax interface (discourse, interface, pragmatics)
- Multifunctionality of grammatical items (grammatical item, function, semantics, pragmatics)
Academic Societies
- 1975-
The English Literary Society of Japan - 1983-
The English Linguistic Society of Japan - 1988-
The Linguistic Society of Japan - 1989-
Linguistic Society of America - 1998-2011
The Pragmatics Society of Japan
Member of the board of directors of English Literary Society of Japan, Chubu Branch. (2007-)
Scholarly
See the page Research Achievement
