Updated on 2026/04/02

 
SAKAGUCHI Kei
 
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Total Paper Count: 1 Total Citation Count: 0 h-index: 0

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Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts Department of Foreign Languages
Job
Lecturer
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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

  • 2025.08   福岡認知言語学会   Japan

  • 2025.08   スポーツ言語学会   Japan

  •   日本認知言語学会   Japan

  •   日本言語学会   Japan

Papers

  • Liberal Arts for Engineering: Thinking Frameworks Centered on Inclusive Design and Pattern Language

    Kei SAKAGUCHI, Shimpei OKUDA, Rio NITTA

    Bulletin of Kyushu Institute of Technology (Institute of Liberal Arts) ( Kyushu Institute of Technology )   10   1 - 24   2026.03

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

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18997/0002002348

  • Evaluating Japanese sentences with co-occurring adjectives of opposite valence: An experimental cognitive-linguistic approach to compositionality and impression formation Reviewed

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

    Papers from the 26th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association   26   254 - 264   2026.03

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  • On Semantic Melioration and Perspective : Polysemy of Egui and Extension of Theoretical Framework Explaining Semantic Melioration Reviewed

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

    Tokyo University Linguistic Papers (TULIP) ( Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo )   47   161 - 188   2025.12

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

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.15083/0002014491

  • 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 ( 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

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

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

    Tokyo University Linguistic Papers (TULIP)   41   2019.09

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

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.15083/00078589

  • On the Meaning of Adjectival Repetitive Construction in Japanese Reviewed

    Kei SAKAGUCHI

    Tokyo University Linguistic Papers (TULIP)   40   193 - 210   2018.09

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.15083/00076307

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

    20   2020.04

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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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    Authorship:Lead author   Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)

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Publications (Books)

  • A Running Start

    Adrian Leis, Kosuke Kishi, Yukiko Ohashi, Masanori Bannai, Kei Sakaguchi, Masumi Yajima, Yuko Nakano, Aliise Donnere, and Norihiro Nakamura.(Joint author)

    2025.12  ( ISBN:978-4-9913907-4-6

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    Total pages:152   Responsible for pages:30-41,49-55,105-107   Language:Japanese

  • 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

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.25.08sak

  • 認知言語学論考 14 Reviewed

    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

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  • 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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    Language:English

  • 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)

  • 「悪くない」=「良い」に対し、 「天才じゃない」≠「馬鹿」なのは何故か?―評価語否定文における二価志向 性の適用範囲と制約条件―

    阪口 慧

    日本言語学会第171回大会  2025.11  日本言語学会

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    Event date: 2025.11.22 - 2025.11.23   Language:Japanese   Country:Japan  

  • より厳密なフレーム意味論の在り方について

    阪口 慧

    福岡認知言語学会第51回大会  2025.09  福岡認知言語学会

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    Event date: 2025.09.20   Language:Japanese  

  • 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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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

  • 機能語を対象としたフレーム意味論の拡張と機能語語彙情報資源の構築

    Grant number:26K16001  2026.04 - 2028.03   若手研究

Other Research Activities

  • 日本言語学会 学会誌「言語研究」査読

    2026.01
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    2026.03

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    日本言語学会 学会誌「言語研究」の研究論文の査読を行った。

  • スポーツ言語学会 学会誌「スポーツ言語学研究」査読

    2026.01
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    2026.03

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

  • 2025年度 工学部1年生英語スピーチコンテスト準優勝・三位

    九州工業大学教養教育院   2026.02.26

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    2025年度前期開講科目、英語ⅡC(スピーキングを主体とした授業)において指導した学生が学内スピーチコンテストにて準優勝、三位を受賞した。