Dr Chisa Matsukawa
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Chisa Matsukawa has been at the University of Central Lancashire since September 2017. Chisa was awarded to PhD in Education (Applied Linguistics) at the University of Bristol in March 2017. She is a research-active member of the School, primarily focusing on Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Politeness in English and Japanese. She is an active member of Linguistic Politeness Research Group and International Pragmatics Association. With regard to language teaching, she has been focusing on enhancing students’ pragmatic competence.
Chisa’s current role is Lecturer in Japanese. Also, she is a Research Degree Tutor in the School and looking after Research Degree students. Chisa is a research-active member of the School, and Chisa and her colleague Dr Mareike Hamann are developing their current project funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, titled ‘Onomatopoetic expressions in formal interactions in Japanese: An analysis from a pragmatic-discursive approach’.
With respect to teaching, Chisa has been actively involved in the field of teaching language as a foreign language for about two decades. When she was an English language teacher in a Japanese junior high school, she contributed to the publication of the two books about how to communicative teaching happens in class, which was edited by Professor Kazuyoshi Sato (Sato, 2012), Nagoya University of Foreign Language. In respect of researching, Chisa’s research interests include Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Politeness in English and Japanese. She has been presenting her papers in International conferences such as 12th International Conference on (Im)Politeness at Anglia Ruskin University in 2019 and 50th British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Meeting 2017 at the University of Leeds.
- PhD in Education (Applied Linguistics), University of Bristol, 2017; MA in English Language Teaching, University of Reading, 2011.
- Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Politeness in English and Japanese
- A member of Linguistic Politeness Research Group, International Pragmatics Association and European Association for Japanese Studies
Chisa’s current research projects:
- ‘A contrastive pragmatics study of invitations in British English and Japanese’ (in preparation, for Journal of Pragmatics);
- ‘Onomatopoetic expressions in formal interactions in Japanese: An analysis from a pragmatic-discursive approach, funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (in preparation, for Journal of Japanese Studies).
- Early Career Researchers, Humanities, Language and Global Studies
- A contrastive pragmatics study of invitations in British English and Japanese
- Onomatopoetic expressions in formal interactions in Japanese: An analysis from a pragmatic-discursive approach, funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
- Type: Research Grant, Founder: The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation; Period: 17 June 2019-16 June 2020; Role: Co-investigator; Title: Onomatopoetic expressions in formal speech situations; Founder: The Great British Sasakawa Amount: £3200.
- 2019 – 12thInternational Conference on (Im)Politeness at Anglia Ruskin University – ‘A contrastive pragmatic study of invitations in British English and Japanese’.
- 2018 – Teaching and Learning L2 Pragmatics Conference at the University of Central Lancashire -‘Invitations as collaborative work?: A contrastive politeness research in British English and Japanese from a pragmatic-discursive approach’.
- 2017 – 50th British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Meeting 2017 at the University of Leeds – ‘Investigation of negotiation of invitations from a cross-cultural perspective’.
- 2017 - 10th International Symposium on Politeness at York St John – ‘Investigation of invitation sequences’ from a cross-cultural perspective.
Telephone:+44 (0)1772 894135
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