KnygosProf. Yoshihiko Ikegami (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University, Professor of Showa Women University), a famous researcher of cognitive linguistics and semiotics, will deliver lectures at VMU in September for University students.

Professor, invited by the Centre for Asian Studies and supported by Japan Foundation, will deliver the lectures for the MA students of East Asia Studies and Integrated Communication (Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy), and at the Centre for Foreign Languages. He also will make presentation at the International conference on September 10-11.The lectures will be taught in English. Everybody is invited to participate.

Schedule (renewed)

Prof. Y. Ikegami is the honorary member of Japan Cognitive Linguistics Association and a member of many international organizations. His books are translated to German, Korean, Chinese and other languages. Some of them are “Theory of Meaning“ (1975), “Poetry of Speech“ (1986), „Poetry and Cultural Semiotics“ (1983), „Sense of English. Sense of Japanese“ (2006), etc.