| KUMAGAI Yoshiharu |
| Position |
Associate Professor |
| Degrees |
Master of Education, Master of Science in General Linguistics
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| Last academic career |
Master Course at the Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University
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| Areas of study |
Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Information Structure, Prosody
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| Themes of research |
- Sound Symbolism in English Verbs
- Information Structure and Temporal Structure in Narratives
- Intonation Unit and Grammatical Unit
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| Research achievement |
- "The Flow of New Information in Narrative Discourse." Paper read at the 2nd International Workshop on Information Structure of Austronesian Languages. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. February 11, 2015.
- "On the Status of There-Constructions in Narrative Analysis." Mulberry 63. 1-17. 2014.
- "Manner of New Referent Distribution in the Narrative Discourse within its Temporal Structure and Context Space." Paper read at the 13th International Pragmatics Conference. New Delhi, India. September 9, 2013.
- "Verbalizing the Same Experience: An Exploration of Information Structure in Japanese and English Narratives." An Enterprise in the Cognitive Science of Language: A Festschrift for Yukio Otsu, Hituzi Syobo Publishing pp.365-377. 2008.
- "Information Management in Intransitive Subjects: Some Implications for the Preferred Argument Structure Theory." Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) Volume 38, Number 5, pp. 670-694. 2006.
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| Academic associations |
- The English Linguistic Society of Japan
- The Phonetic Society of Japan
- The Phonological Society of Japan
- The Pragmatics Society of Japan
- The International Pragmatics Association
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| Mail Address |
kumagai[at]for.aichi-pu.ac.jp
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