Members
Chair of Centre
Centre Steering Committee
Barbara Pizziconi
Acting Chair
Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness - Tel: 020 7898 4225
- Email: bp3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 362
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Noriko Iwasaki
Centre Chair (On sabbatical 2012/13)
Second language acquisition (grammatical and pragmatic development, impact of study abroad), language pedagogy, psycholinguistics (language production, cognition and language), Japanese linguistics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4394
- Email: ni3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 401
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00- 13:00/Thursdays 15:00 - 17:00
- On Sabbatical:2012-13
Anne Pauwels
Steering Committee Member
Professor of Sociolinguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures - Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4474
- Email: ap62@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 360
Song Lianyi
Steering Committee Member
Modern Chinese language and language pedagogy - Tel: 020 7898 4226
- Email: ls2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 397
- Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00/Thursdays 11:00-12:00
Core Members
Cui Yan
Member
Chinese language teaching, styles of modern Chinese literary language, Chinese rhetoric - Tel: 020 7898 4237
- Email: yc2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 382
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:05-11.35 V323/Wed. 11:05-12:35 E36/382
Philip J Jaggar
Member
Hausa language and linguistics; comparative Chadic. - Tel: 020 7898 4387
- Email: pj@soas.ac.uk
Christopher Lucas
Member
Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, the syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, philosophy of language, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4318
- Email: cl39@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 447
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00-12:00/Wednesdays 11:30-12:30
Akin Oyètádé
Member
Yorùbá language and literature; Yorùbá culture and linguistics with special reference to phonology; Yorùbá in the diaspora. - Tel: 020 7898 4378
- Email: ao2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 407
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-13:00/Thursdays 13:00-14:00
Muaadh Salih
Member
- Tel: 020 7898 4354
- Email: ms1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 429
- Office Hours: Fridays 12:00-13:00 and 15:00-16:00
Naresh Sharma
Member
Urdu and Hindi language - Tel: 020 7898 4296
- Email: ns19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 454
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 / Thursdays 14:00-15:00
Jae Hoon Yeon
Member
Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature - Tel: 020 7898 4232
- Email: jy1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 384
- Office Hours: Fridays 14:00 - 15:00 and 16:00-17:00
