Occupation

2014-present
School of Law, Waseda University
Professor

2008-2014
School of Law, Waseda University
Associate Professor

2005-2008
School of Law, Waseda University
Assistant Professor

2000-2005
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Tokyo
Visiting Researcher

1999-2005
Faculty of Comparative Cultures
Sophia University
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Education
　
1998 Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA (Ph.D. in Linguitics (with distinction))
1989 University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA (M.A. in English Language Studies (=ESL))
1987 University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA (B.A. in English (literature))
1983 Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (B.A. in Sociology)

Areas of Research
　
pragmatics
discourse analysis
sociolinguistics
law and language

Academic Societies

International Pragmatics Association
International Association of Forensic Linguists
The Linguistic Society of Japan
The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
The Pragmatics Society of Japan
The Japan Association for Language and Law