October 14, 2016
On the left is Noriaki Nagao, President of the Korean Studies Association.
Second from the left is Full-time Lecturer Takeya Takagi.
At the 67th Annual Conference of the Korean Studies Association held on Saturday, October 1, Takeya Takagi, a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Policy Management, was awarded the Research Encouragement Award from the Korean Studies Association.
The Korean Studies Association, founded in 1950, is an academic society established with the aim of researching and elucidating Korean culture, contributing to the exchange and development of culture, and pioneering new fields to contribute to the global academic community.
The Research Encouragement Award from the Korean Studies Association was established for the first time this year. Full-time Lecturer Takeya Takagi received the award in recognition of his outstanding and promising paper, "Utterance Chains in Japanese and Korean Discourse: Focusing on 'Question' and 'Response' Chains."
Comment from Takeya Takagi, Full-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Policy Management
I am filled with surprise and joy to have unexpectedly received such an award. The paper that won the award analyzed the generation mechanism of utterances in Japanese and Korean discourse. By analyzing discourse data to see what kind of utterance Y could be generated following a given utterance X, it became clear that Japanese and Korean have different characteristics. I believe this provides a new perspective for describing the essence of Japanese and Korean, languages whose similarities are often overemphasized. I intend to continue maintaining this "new perspective," observing language and society, and dedicating myself to my research activities. Thank you very much.