Tomohiro SAKAI
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Semantics, Pragmatics,
- Philosophy of Language,
- Contextualism,
- Mental Space Theory,
- French Linguistics
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- April 2014- Present
- Waseda University, Tokyo, JapanAssociate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- April 2011 - March 2014
- Atomi University, Tokyo, JapanAssistant Professor, Faculty of Letters
- April 2009 - March 2011
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanResearcher, Department of Language and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- April 2006 - March 2009
- Keio University, Tokyo, JapanResearch Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Letters
- October 2003 - March 2006
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences
OTHER EXPERIENCES
- September 2011 - March 2012
- Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan Part-time Lecturer of Japanese Linguistics
- April 2011 - September 2011
- Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan Part-time Lecturer of French Linguistics
- September 2010 - present
- Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of Linguistics
- April 2010 - March 2011
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of English
- April 2009 - - March 2011
- Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Part-time Lecturer of French
- April2009 - - March 2011
- Chiba University of Commerce, Ichikawa, JapanPart-time Lecturer of English and French
- April 2006 -March 2014
- Keio University, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of French
- October 2005 - March 2007, April 2009 - present
- Keio Foreign Language School, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of French
- April 2009 - September 2009
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of Linguistics
- August 2005 - March 2007
- Meisei University, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of Linguistics
- April 2005 - March 2007
- Mejiro University, Tokyo, JapanPart-time Lecturer of Linguistics
- April 1999 - September 2001
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanTeaching Assistant of English
EDUCATION
- November 2002 - January 2004
- University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, FrancePh.D. in LinguisticsPh.D. thesis: “Connexions trans-spatiales et énoncés tautologiques en japonais”Advisor: Pierre CadiotOther Committee members: Jean-Claude Anscombre, Brenda Laca, François Nemo, and Irène Tamba
- April 1999 - October 2003
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanPh.D. in Arts and Sciences, April 1999 - October 2003Ph.D. thesis: “Les constructions avec NP (XP) en français”Advisor: Shigeru SakaharaOther Committee members: Christine Lamarre, Hiroshi Mito, Christopher Tancredi, and Hiroto Ueda
- September 2001 - October 2002
- University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, FranceD.E.A. in Linguistics
- April 1997 - March 1999
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanM.A. in Arts and Sciences
- March 1997
- Keio University, Tokyo, JapanB.A. in Letters
SCHOLARSHIP
- September 2001 – September 2002
- The French Government Scholarship
