Position
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Linguistics (OBU) I Director of Outreach & Lecturer (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Affiliation
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies & Kellogg College
Contact
Tel: 01865 603612
Email:
laurence.mann@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- The phonology of Japanese and Korean songs
- Poetry and liturgies
- Rhetoric and poetics
- Historical and Corpus Linguistics
- Japanese and Korean Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics
Courses:
- Classical Japanese (lecture series)
- Unseen Translation (4th years) (lecture series)
- Unseen Classical Translation (4th years)
- Modern East Asia Survey Course (participating lecturer)
Biography
Laurence studied Japanese, alongside Classical Chinese, at the Universities of Oxford and Kyoto. His research interests began in early Japanese liturgies and poetry from the Old Japanese (8th Century, Nara) Period. Since then, his interests have developed to span a broader range across both time and space, but retain a focus on meaning making and communication, particularly in poetry and song. His most recent publications and projects scope across a wide variety of topics in Japanese and Korean language, including language education, phonology and poetics, multimodality and popular song. He also collaborates with researchers in experimental linguistics to investigate the cognitive underpinnings of poetic appreciation in a variety of languages, including Japanese, Korean, Welsh, English and Mongolian.
He contributes lectures and tutorials on modern and premodern Japanese topics for the BA in Japanese programme and seminars and tutorials for graduate programmes such as the MPhil in Traditional East Asia. He has supervised and assessed student research projects, from BA through to DPhil, on a variety of topics, including premodern Japanese literature, Korean and Japanese linguistics and multimodality in East Asian popular music and culture. He welcomes new research students in all areas related to Japanese songs and poetry, multimodal meaning making, as well as comparative projects on Korean and Japanese. He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is currently the Director of Outreach for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and oversees our UNIQ, UNIQ+ and Opportunity Oxford programmes, as well as Faculty Open Days.
