The Department of Linguistic Science has a diverse staff with expertise in various fields of linguistics, ranging from theoretical research such as semantics and syntax to language education, language history research, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics.
We conduct comparative research from the viewpoints of cognitive linguistics and generative linguistics on various languages of the world, not only Japanese and English, to clarify the similarities and differences among them, and to elucidate the characteristics of natural languages and the human cognitive abilities and linguistic functions that underlie their acquisition, learning, comprehension, and use. We are also working to elucidate the characteristics of natural language and the human cognitive abilities and language functions that underlie its acquisition, learning, understanding, and use.
Through close collaboration with the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Integrated Course in General Linguistic Sciences (IGPLS), and the Research Center for Integrated Science of Language, Brain and Cognition, we provide educational programs from multiple perspectives, applying results from theoretical research to research on language acquisition and language education, to foster human resources with a broad perspective. In particular, we offer interdisciplinary research and educational programs in English as well as Japanese, while conducting research to empirically verify the results of linguistics research using psychological and cranial neuroscience methods.
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