Keiko Tsuchiya (Ph.D.) is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in Liberal Arts and International Studies, Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies, Yokohama City University, Japan. She received an MA in English Language Teaching from Nottingham Trent University and a PhD in English Studies from Nottingham University.
Her expertise includes applied linguistics (especially in healthcare communication), pragmatics, discourse studies and multimodal analysis (e.g., gestures and gaze behaviours in interactions) .
She is also interested in multilingual and multicultural practices in Japan, e.g., Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in institutional and academic settings.
MA and PhD Supervision
I welcome applicants for both MA and PhD studies in sociolinguistics, discourse and pragmatic studies in healthcare and multilingual/multicultural interactions, using multimodal semiotic resources. Please see the admission information here.
I am away for a sabbatical from August 2024 to September 2025 (Nottingham Business School, and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour).
Contact: ktsuchiy@yokohama-cu.ac.jp