Person

Makino, Seiichi

1935

Emeritus Professor of Japanese and Linguistics since 1991. Currently researches Linguistic inquiry into human brain through analysis of non-creative metaphors and other cognitive linguistic analyses. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Waseda University, B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Makino was the President of Association of Teachers of Japanese, 2003-2005. He has been the Academic Director of a three-summer M.A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy at Columbia University since 1996.