Researcher Database

（Last updated : 2024-02-15 04:09:31）

KOSAKA KYOKO

Department / Course College of Business Administration Department of Business Administration

Title / Position Professor

Business career
1.	2001/04/01	Professor │ │ Ritsumeikan University

Research activities
1.		THE SOCIETY OF EXPRESSION-FORMATION STUDIES
2.		The Japan Association of College English Teachers
3.		The Japan Association of Comparative Culture
4.		International Pragmatics Association
5.		The Pragmatics Society of Japan

Subject of research
1.	A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Anaphora and the Information Structure of the Sentence
2.	A Contrastive Study of Japanese and English Demonstratives
3.	A Semantic and Pragmatic Study of English Articles

Research summary
Research on the mechanism of information transmission and acknowledgement in languages Empirical analysis is conducted on various phenomena that cannot be captured by conventional formalism framework of grammar (for example, anaphora), by introducing new viewpoints from pragmatics, discourse grammar, cognitive linguistics, and others.

Present specialized field
Linguistics and Phonetics, English Language and Literature (Keyword：English Linguistics, Linguistics)

Books
1.	2015/11	Perspectives on English Linguistics │ ,pp.39-93 (Co-authored)
2.	2015/01	TOEICⓇテストに役立つビジネス英単語 │ (Co-authored)
3.	1996/03	Language, Man and Society │ (Co-authored)
4.	1996/02	An Encyclopedia of British and American Culture │ (Co-authored)
5.	1994/04	『ことばの樹海』 ("Definite Reference and the Notion of Domain"を担当） │ (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2023/01	The History of English Education in the College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University (1992-2022): Focusing on Curriculum Changes and Achievements │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2021/01/10	Pub Culture as a Manifestation of British Society: Life Style and Work Represented in Pub Signs │ The Ritsumeikan Business Review │ 59 (5),pp.51-69 (Sole-authored)
3.	2020/03	Issues in foreign language education in Japan: International comparisons from the perspectives of language, culture and education policy │ (No.22) (Co-authored)
4.	2015/03	Towards English Education for Fostering Global Human Resources: the New English Curriculum and its Outcomes at the College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University │ Ritsumeikan Higher Educational Studies │ (第15号) (Sole-authored)
5.	2001/08	Acquisition Processes of Space Recognition from the Perspective of Comparative Cultures │ (第11号) (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/12/03	Suggestions from Foreign Language Education Overseas: Triangular Research on the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom
2.	2019/06/27	Second-language learners' acquisition of English articles: a quantitative study with pedagogical implications (The 17th Asia TEFL International Conference and The 6th FLLT International Conference)
3.	2018/07/02	A semantic and pragmatic analysis of English articles from the perspective of second language acquisition (20th International Congress of Linguists (ICL20))
4.	2017/07/20	Remarks on the use of English articles from pragmatic perspectives: differences between native speakers of English and Japanese EFL learners (15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2017))
5.	2016/05/21	Multiculturalism and language education in Canada: with special reference to Brisith Columbia
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Teaching achievements

●Practical Example of Education Technique

1.	2016/06 ～ 2017/12	Colombia Workshop：クラスにコロンビアからの留学生を招き、プレゼンテーションやディスカッションなどを通して異文化理解を深める。