FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

As a research organization, the Faculty has the following four departments, and is comprised of a total of 70 staff members, of which 60 are Japanese and 10 are non-Japanese.

1. The Department of Applied Linguistics: Research is conducted in such fields as applied phonetics, contrastive linguistics, and other areas of applied linguistics using the latest equipment.
2. The Department of Area Studies: Research is conducted on languages and cultures of the world, particularly in relation to their natural environments and histories.
3. The Department of Comparative Studies: Comparative research into languages and other important aspects of culture is conducted, aided by achievements made in the fields of comparative literature, cultural anthropology, and comparative linguistics.
4. The Department of International Linguistic Communication: This department focuses on research into the role of pragmatics, rhetoric, media, and literary culture as elements in modern international communication, as well as on research in Japanese language and culture.

Every year the Faculty offers some 1,000 foreign languages courses in English, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish. These courses are offered under the rubric of 'Language and Culture Subjects" as required by the university's new four year comprehensive program.

Other language courses (in the languages mentioned above as well as in Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Latin, Greek, Esperanto and Ainu) are offered to senior students as well as to members of other schools. The number of students in these classes is limited to 25 in order to provide students with plenty of opportunity to participate in classroom activities. Thirty such courses are offered annually.

The Faculty is also responsible for post-graduate education. "Japanese Language and Culture" is an independent program offered only at graduate level. This is administered by the Faculty of language and Culture in conjunction with Education Center for International Students and is designed to provide training for those who wish to become specialists in Japanese language and culture (for further details, see p.19).

The Faculty also has links with the Department of International Communication Studies (one of the three divisions of the Graduate School of International Development established in 1993) in order to encourage research and train personnel for international and cross-cultural communication.

Furthermore, the Faculty offers courses in the Department of Informatics for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Graduate School of Human Informatics, conducting research in linguistic theories and the communicative functions of language as a part of the overall research in information systems. (see p.165)

Small language laboratories with booths for individual use and a range of other facilities including a multi-media production studio are also available.

The Faculty is not only an institution of research and education, but is also a center of international cultural and educational exchange. Students come from major institutions around the world, with which Nagoya University has exchange programs. Among the more notable ones are Harvard University, Jilin University, and Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.

For further information about the Faculty of Language and Culture, please contact the Information Branch:

Or visit our web site at http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/.

Department of Applied Linguistics

Prof. Katsutoshi HIRAI

1. Phonetics

2. Chinese Linguistics

3. Japanese-Chinese Contrastive Study

1. Contrastive Study of Japanese, Korean and English

2. Korean Linguistics

3. Teaching of Korean

1. Cognitive Linguistics

2. Language Acquisition

3. English Linguistics

1. Contrastive Linguistics

2. Language Pedagogy

3. Japanese Grammar

1. English Linguistics

2. Generative Grammar

3. Dynamic Theory of Grammar

1. German Linguistics

2. Semiotic Studies of Language and Culture

1. Theoretical Linguistics

2. Phonology & Morphology

3. Accentual Typology

1. On Some Aspects of Chinese Grammar

2. A Comparative Study of the Parts of Speech of Chinese and Japanese

1. Contrastive Study of Japanese and German Pronunciation

1. Communication and Linguistic Structure

2. Contrastive Study of Syntax and Semantics in Japanese and French

3. Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Universals

1. Reading in English as a Foreign Language

2. English Language Education

1. English Literature

2. Children's Literature

Prof. Mikio (Koshi) YAMADA

1. Early English Drama

2. Classical Rhetoric

3. Modern Hermeneutics

1. German Literature in the Age of the Enlightenment

2. Reception of the Classical Literature in Germany

1. English Romanticism

2. European Hermeticism

3. Translation Pragmatics

1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Literature and Culture in the 1910s

1. American Literature

2. Japanese and American Nature Writing

3. Environmental Thought

1. German Realism in the Literature of the 19th Century

2. Jewish Persecutions in the European World

3. German Linguistics and its Didactics

1. Seventeenth Century English Poetry

1. Syntax of the Middle High German

2. Tense

3. Linguistic Change

1. Trend of Thought in Modern Chinese Literature

2. Lu Xun's Literature

3. Chuangzao she and Wenxue yanjiu hui

1. The Viennese Popular Theater

2. Study and Performance of Kyogen

1. American Literature

2. Post-modern Literature

1. German Romanticism

2. Mesmerism in European Literature

3. Franz Kafka

1. Philosophy

2. Classical Philology

3. Romance Languages (Spanish and Portuguese)

1. Aspect of the Russian Language

2. Balto-Slavic Accentuation

3. Language Typology

1. American Literature

2. Feminism

3. Post-structuralism

1. French Linguistics

2. French and Japanese Modal Expressions Asst.

1. Modern Chinese Literature

2. Western-Educated Chinese Writers in the 1920s

Prof. Tomokazu OGURI

1. Middle High German Literature

2. German Folklore

1. Voltaire's Religion

2. Flaubert's Literature

3. Comparative Studies on the Conception of Life and Death

1. German Lyric Poems of the 19th Century

2. Historical Studies of German Essayistik

3. Comparative Studies of Representational Arts

1. Women's Studies

2. Helene Cixous

3. Feminism

1. Comparative Studies of European Epistolary Novels

2. Classical Tradition in Modern European Literature

3. Iconological Studies of Modern European Literature

1. The Viennese Popular Theater

2. J. Nestroy

3. F. Raimund

1. Studies of Cultural Pluralism through Representations of Female Sexuality

2. Comparative Studies of Female Sexuality in the Field of Art and Performance

3. Translation of Contemporary German Literature

1. American Literature

2. Modern and Postmodern Poetry

3. Literary Criticism

1. 19th Century English Literature

2. Cultural and Social History of the Victorian Age

3. Digitization of Literary Resources

1. Andrea Alciato's Emblemata

2. Renaissance Legal History

3. Studies on Relationship of Emblem with the Visual Arts

1. Literature and Culture in Fin-de-siècle Vienna

2. Contemporary Music and Art

1. Sensationalism in the 18th Century in France

2. Influence of the Leibnizianism in the 18th Century

3. French Literature of the 18th Century

1. American Studies

2. History of Christian and Native Americans

3. Multiculturalism in the U.S.

1. Chinese Literature in Yuan and Ming Periods

2. Popular Culture and Society in Late Imperial China

1. Theoretical Linguistics

2. Syntax Based upon Chomsky's Generative Grammar

3. Comparative Study of the English and Japanese Languages

Prof. Kenji KONDO

1. Language Typology

2. Historical Linguistics

3. Contrastive Linguistics

1. William Shakespeare

2. Cultural Studies of the Body

3. English Renaissance Studies

1. Modem Literature in Japan and Germany: Especially, Kafka, Trakl, Nietzsche, Hoelderlin, Ogai, Soseki, Chomin and Kafu

2. Comparative Culture Study

3. Theory of International Linguistic Culture

1. Intellectual History of Japanese Film

2. Social and Intellectual History of Pre-war and Wartime Japan

3. Twentieth Century American Literature

1. Drug Trafficking in Latin America

2. Party Systems in Latin American Countries

3. Studies on Cultural Conflicts

1. French Reflections on Human Diversity

2. Comparative Study of the Work of Arimasa Mori

3. Metaphysics of Marcel Proust

1. Modem German Literature

2. Comparative Literature (the Noh Plays and Bertolt Brecht)

3. Cross-cultural Communication

1. Japanese Poetry since Meiji

2. Comparative Literature

3. Modem Poetry

1. English Literature

2. Thomas Hardy and Sensationalism

1. German Literature

2. Modernism in Poetry

3. Dance Image and Poetic Language Asst.

1. US-East Asian Relations

2. American Diplomatic History

3. Asian American Studies Asst.

1. Modem Chinese Grammar

Res. Assoc. Shigeki MATSUBARA

1. Artificial Intelligence

2. Natural Language Processing

3. Machine Translation

Adelbert G. SMITH

1. The Role of Motivation in the Acquisition of English and Other Foreign Languages

2. Anxiety as a Variable in Foreign Language Learning

3. Self-access Learning

1. American Cinema and Ideology (the Films of Martin Scorsese)

2. Japanese Cinema (the Use of Okinawa in Japanese Film)

1. American Literature

1. Japanese Politics

2. Japanese Sociology

Folkmar KOLLER

1. Dramaturgy

2. Psycholinguistics

3. Interlinguistics

1. Reform of German Orthography

2. Didactic Use of German TV News and Analysis of Present-day German

3. East German Literary Publications before and after German Unification

Marc KOBER

1. Franco-phone Literature in Egypt, especially Georges Hennin

Kangmei LI

1. Comparative Linguistics of Japanese and Chinese

2. Japanese Linguistics

Prof. Mieko OHSO

1. Syntax and Semantics of Current Japanese

2. Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

1. Comparative Literature and Culture

2. History of Medicine

3. Social History of Victorian England and Meiji Japan

1. History of Linguistic Thought

2. Japanese Grammar and Usage

3. English Grammar and Usage

1. Contrastive Research of Both Japanese and Korean Languages

2. Meaning Structure of the Sentence

3. Meaning Analysis of the Word That Shows Judgment

1. Listening in Language Learning

2. Text Structure

3. The Japanese Teaching Method