Keiko Tsuchiya (Ph.D.) is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, in School of International Liberal Arts, 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, UK.
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.
Contact: ktsuchiy@yokohama-cu.ac.jp
2026
PhD Candidate
Abdurrahman Sattouf
Comparing voice qualities and facial expressions in uncertainty negotiation in medical simulations in Syria, the UK and Japan: a multimodal analysis
MA Student
Wang Xinyi
A comparative study of discourse-pragmatic strategies on disagreement in dyad interactions in Chinese and Japanese: a multimodal approach