Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces

Leo Loveday is Professor of English Linguistics at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of the three volumes: The Sociolinguistics of Learning and Using a Non-Native Language, Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics and Language Contact in Japan. In 2015, he was co-editor (with Emilia Parpală) of Contextual Identities: A Comparative and Communicational Approach. His current research focusses on socio-onomastics in Japan, the anthropology of Japanese identity and the study of im/politeness as a psychostylistic device in fantasy fiction. Emilia Parpală is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Craiova, Romania. She has published various works such as Poetics of Tudor Arghezi: Semiotic Models and Text Types, Semiotic Poetry: The Generation of the Eighties and Romanian Poetic Postmodernism: A Semio-pragmatic Perspective (all in Romanian), as well as four theoretical syntheses and numerous articles in scholarly international journals. Since 2008, she has been the principal organiser of an annual international conference in Craiova and has edited ten volumes of its proceedings. Her academic interests include stylistics, poetics, semiotics, imagology and discourse analysis.