Takeshi Nakamoto
Professor
Introduction
I started my career as a French linguist. I wrote papers on French phonology and French syntax. While I was in Belgium, I learned a lot about translation studies although the area was not so popular then. Since I came to Sendai, I have seen a lot of foreign students especially from East Asia pursue their studies of Japanese comparing the language with their mother tongues (Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and so on).
With this background, I am now interested in various topics: Romance linguistics, humor and jokes, (im)politeness and facework, subtitling and dubbing, and syntactic constraints on code-switching. What I am proud of is that I have published papers with some of my ex-students in international journals. I hope my future students help me further broaden my views.
Research Interests
Romance Languages, East Asian Languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese), Contrastive Linguistics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Phonology, Politeness, Translation Studies, Code-Switching.
Academic Background
1992 - MA (French Linguistics), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
1991 - MA (translation), Université de Mons-Hainaut (Belgium)
Major Publications
- Meng, Hairong, Takeshi Nakamoto, and Zeng Zeng. 2023. “A contrastive study of Japanese ‘no’ and Chinese ‘de’: A perspective from code-switching”. International East Asian Language Research 4: 65-76 (In Japanese).
- Chen, Wei, Takeshi Nakamoto, and Juan Zhang. 2021. “The translation of extralinguistic cultural references in subtitling”. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. (online)
- Meng, Hairong, and Takeshi Nakamoto. 2018. “Discourse particles in Chinese-Japanese code switching: Constrained by the Matrix Language Frame?”. International Journal of Bilingualism 22(1) 100-122.
- Nakamoto, Takeshi. 2010. “Inalienable possession constructions in French”. Lingua 120(1): 74-102.
- Nakamoto, Takeshi. 2004. “Derivation with constraint rankings: Extrasyllabic consonants in French”. Phonological Studies 7: 33-40.
Contact
takeshi.nakamoto.e3 (add [at] + "tohoku.ac.jp")