Aiko Otsuka
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Key information
- Qualifications
- BA (Meiji Gakuin) MA (SOAS)
- Email address
- 600014@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Pragmatic strategies in face-to-face interactions and emails by Japanese speakers and Japanese Sign Language users: Focus on Japanese Sign Language users' use of Japanese and their perceptions
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Anne Pauwels, Dr Noriko Iwasaki & Dr Barbara Pizziconi
Biography
Aiko is a former qualified professional sign language interpreter with 10 years of experience working in Japan. Currently, she teaches Japanese in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at SOAS.
Research interests
- Pragmatics
- Sign languages
- Second language users' linguistic identities
- Language learning and teaching