Profile

Yuichi Asai

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Division of Language and Culture Studies

Areas of Expertise

Cultural Anthropology, Oceanic Studies

Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Ethnopoetics

Nature & Culture, Environmental Discourse

Recent Updates

2020. 7    Paper @ UK-CLC 2020 "TIME IS MOTION metaphors in Fijian"

2019. 8　 Paper @ ICLC 2019 "Onomatopoeia as Signs of Naturalness: Semiotics on the Language and Environment Nexus" 

2019. 6    Paper @IPrA 2019 "The Fijian Chiefly Discourse as a Constellation of Signs of/in History"

2019. 3    Discourse on the Last Descendant: The Chief as a Constellation of Signs in Contemporary Fiji. People and Culture in Oceania 34

2019. 1    Paper @CALA 2019 "Multilingualism and Ritual Communication in the Contemporary Fiji"

2018. 7    News Letter No.121 (Japanese Society of Oceanic Studies)

2018. 6    Paper @Sociolinguistics Symposium 22 "Mana, or the ethnopoetics of magical formula in contemporary Melanesia"

2018. 6    Paper @Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology 2018

2017. 11  Paper @American Anthropological Association 2017

2017. 3    Publishing a book: Semiotics of Ritual: Linguistic Anthropological Study on Myths / Poetic Texts in Melanesia, Fiji