Linguistics Faculty

As the Director of ESL and the Waseda and Pathway Programs I work with multilingual students who wish to develop any English skill.  I teach University courses focused on the English language as well as courses in Education and Linguistics.

Interests: Philosophies of mind, language, and cognitive science; figurative language; theory of mind; linguistic pragmatics

Her interests entail research on phonology, speech sciences, bilingualism, minority languages and early language acquisition.

I'm a cognitive scientist who studies how people construct meaning in interaction, with a focus on how we use our hands to express thoughts and guide the thinking of others.