Updated on 2025/06/18

 
SAKAGUCHI Kei
 
Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts Department of Foreign Languages
Job
Lecturer

Research Interests

  • Cognitive linguistics

  • Semantics

  • Adjectives

  • Frame semantics

  • Construction grammar

  • Linguistics

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics  / Cognitive linguistics, Semantics, Adjectives, Frame semantics, Construction grammar

Post Graduate Education

  • 2023.06   The University of Tokyo   Graduate School, Division of General Culture   Doctoral Program   Completed

  • 2014.03   The University of Tokyo   Graduate School, Division of General Culture   Master's Course   Completed

Degree

  • 東京大学  -  博士(学術)   2023.06

Biography in Kyutech

  • 2025.04
     

    Kyushu Institute of Technology   Institute of Liberal Arts   Department of Foreign Languages   Lecturer  

Biography before Kyutech

  • 2024.09   Sendai Seiyo Gakuin Junior College   Lecturer

  • 2020.04 - 2025.03   Tohoku Gakuin University   Specially Appointed Assistant Professor   Japan

  • 2016.04 - 2020.03   Tokyo Healthcare University

  • 2016.04 - 2020.03   Musashino University

  • 2016.04 - 2017.03   Meisei University

Academic Society Memberships

  •   日本認知言語学会   Japan

  •   日本言語学会   Japan

Papers

  • 英語教育センターにおける遠隔授業への対応

    渡部 友子, ドンネレ アリーセ, 薄井 洋子, 矢島 真澄美, 阪口 慧

    東北学院大学教育研究所報告集 = Reports from the Institute for Research in Education, Tohoku Gakuin University ( 仙台 : 東北学院大学教育研究所 )   21   51 - 61   2021.03

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)

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    Other Link: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/031373405

  • Figurative meanings of sensory and emotional adjectives in Japanese: Semantic patterns of [-i adjective+noun] constructions Reviewed

    20   2020.04

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  • A Frame Semantic Approach to the Polysemy of itai (be in pain) Reviewed

    41   2019.09

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  • On the Meaning of Adjectival Repetitive Construction in Japanese Reviewed

    40   2018.09

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  • On the constructional meanings of Japanese compound adjectives Reviewed

    17   2017.04

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  • Frame Semantics based constrastive studies of Japanese and English adjectives Reviewed

    15   2015.05

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  • The polysemy of Japanese adjectives "oishi", "umai" and "mazui" revisited : Frame Semantics approach to the description of polysemy Reviewed

    14   2014.05

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  • 日本語形容詞「やばい」の意味拡張と強調詞化に関する一考察 : 認知言語学から観る意味の向上のメカニズム Reviewed

    阪口 慧

    言語情報科学   11   2013.05

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Publications (Books)

  • The Language of Food in Japanese Reviewed

    Kiyoko Toratani(Contributor ,  A frame-semantic approach to Japanese taste terms)

    John Benjamins Pub Co  2022.02 

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    Total pages:347   Responsible for pages:232-260   Language:Japanese

  • 認知言語学論考 14

    山梨正明(Sole author ,  [形容詞語幹+形容詞]型複合形容詞の意味―フレーム意味論・構文彙に基づいた複合形容詞の意味記述)

    ひつじ書房  2018.08 

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    Total pages:384   Responsible for pages:41-81   Language:Japanese

  • Our Fascinating World -Discovering the World's Culture and Diversity-

    Aliise Donnere, Masumi Yajima Kei Sakaguchi, Adrian Leis(Joint author)

    2025.01 

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  • Authentic Reader - A Gateway to Academic English

    九州大学大学院言語文化研究院 学術英語テキスト編集委員会(Contributor ,  Lesson 6(Metaphors we live by)の解説)

    研究社  2016.07 

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    Total pages:150   Responsible for pages:解説書   Language:Japanese

Conference Prsentations (Oral, Poster)

  • 評価性が相反する形容詞が共起する文の評価-合成性の原理・印象形成に対する実験認知言語学的アプローチ-

    阪口 慧

    日本認知言語学会第26回大会  2025.08 

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    Event date: 2025.08.30 - 2025.08.31   Language:Japanese  

  • Operational Definitions in the Semantic Classification of Adjectives

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2025.06.28 - 2025.06.29   Language:Japanese  

  • "Itandeiru" : a unique form of Japnese verb "itamu" in sports commentary -On constraints and motivation of wording-

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2024.11   Language:Japanese  

  • Japanese predicative use of adjectives without particles and two-value orientation

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2023.06   Language:Japanese  

  • Figurative meanings of sensory and emotional adjectives in Japanese:Semantic patterns of [-i adjective+noun] con-structions

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2019.08   Language:English  

  • On the constructional meanings of Japanese compound adjectives

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2016.09   Language:Japanese  

  • Frame Semantics based contrastive studies of Japanese and English adjectives

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2014.09   Language:Japanese  

  • The polysemy of Japanese adjectives "oishi", "umai" and "mazui" revisited : Frame Semantics approach to the description of polysemy

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2013.09   Language:Japanese  

  • On scalar related semantic and functional extension of Japanese adjectives

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

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    Event date: 2013.06   Language:Japanese  

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Charge of off-campus class subject

  • 2024.09   Institution:仙台青葉学院短期大学

  • English Conversation Ⅰ・Ⅱ

    2016.04 - 2020.03   Institution:Tokyo Healthcare University

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    Level:undergraduate_liberal_arts 

  • 2016.04 - 2020.03   Institution:武蔵野大学

  • English Reading and Writing

    2016.04 - 2020.03   Institution:Tokyo Healthcare University

  • 2016.04 - 2017.03  

Award for Educational Activities

  • 教育業績等優秀教員

    東北学院大学   2023.07