Lecturer
School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Ryoko Sasamoto, BA, MPhil, PhD, is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS). She teaches on a number of Japanese and Japanese language modules. Since joining SALIS in 2011, she has expanded her research expertise in Pragmatics into the emerging interdisciplinary research area of Digital Asian Studies, working across different disciplines such as Pragmatics, Japanese language studies, media studies, psychology, and reception studies. She has secured internal and external funding from organisations such as Japan Foundation and is a winner of research award Career Enhancement Award (DCU, 2013). Her PhD supervision covers a range of research areas, including an eye-tracking study of Japanese pop-up captions, reception of onomatopoeia in translated manga, and use of multimodal artwork in language classroom.
Eye-tracking study of Japanese pop-up captions, Reception of onomatopoeia in translated manga, use of multimodal artwork in language classroom