Kimi Akita, Ph.D.

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• Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 464-8601, Japan (Room 614, Integrated Research Bldg for Humanities and Social Sciences)

What's new

• Talk at the Pragmatic Society of Japan (December 2026)

• Workshop on Ideophones in Use (December 2026)

• Nagoya Colloquium on Iconicity (October 2026)

• SKASE interview by Bonnie McLean (June 2026)

• The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language (February 2026)

Contents

• Research interests (07/06/26)

• CV (06/27/25)

• Collaborations (09/16/26)

• Teaching (08/21/26)

• Publications (09/03/26)

• Presentations (10/03/26)

• Interviews (07/16/26)

• Bibliographies on sound-symbolic phenomena (10/16/19: slightly updated)

• Nagoya Circle of Language and Cognition (09/18/26)

• Encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics (09/15/13: updated)

• Links (04/02/25)

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