MASAYA SATO
Last Updated :2025/12/02
- Affiliations, Positions
- Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Assistant Professor
- E-mail
- massato
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Basic Information
Major Professional Backgrounds
- 2025/04/01, Hiroshima University, Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Assistant Professor
- 2024/04, 2025/03, Kyoto University, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lecturer (Part-Time)
- 2023/09, 2025/03, Doshisha University, Faculty of Global Communications, Lecturer (Part-Time)
- 2024/04, 2024/09, Ritsumeikan University, College of Letters, Lecturer (Part-Time)
- 2023/05, 2023/09, Universität Wien, Institut für Philosophie, Visiting PhD Candidate
Educational Backgrounds
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Japan, 2018/04, 2024/03
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Japan, 2016/04, 2018/03
- Doshisha University, Faculity of Global Comminications, Japan, 2012/04, 2016/03
- The University of Montana, U.S., 2013/03, 2013/12
Academic Degrees
- Master (Human and Environmental Studies), Kyoto University
Research Fields
- Humanities;Philosophy;Philosophy / Ethics
Research Keywords
- Intentionality
- Linguistic Acts
Affiliated Academic Societies
- The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
- The European Society for Analytic Philosophy
- The Pragmatics Society of Japan
- The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication Seminar I
- 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication Seminar II
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- Explicit performatives and force recognition, International Philosophical Quarterly, 63(3), 315-336, 202309
- Are performative utterances really declarations?, Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 25-32, 202106
- Common ground and illocutionary forces of indirect speech acts, Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 57-64, 202006
- Cognitive mechanism of impairment of abstract attitude in aphasia, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 20, 245-255, 202004
- Abductive resolution for presuppositions of ‘again’: Reinterpretation of context with temporal information, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing, 669-672, 202003
- Switching the strategy for processing presupposition triggers: Split of focus and the reinterpretation of triggers’ scope, Papers in Linguistic Science, 25(1), 69-89, 201912
- Resolution patterns of again’s presuppositions, Papers in Linguistic Science, 24(1), 79-97, 201812
- Focus structure and potential for argument ellipsis in Japanese, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 18, 459-465, 201804
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- From evidential marker to focus particle: On the developmental path of "gena" in the Fukuoka dialect of Japanese, Masaya Sato; Wataru Kono, The 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories, 2025/11, Without Invitation, English
- Causal distortion in the statement account on explicit performatives, Masaya Sato, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference, 2025/09, Without Invitation, English
- Describing the Rhetorical Effects of Metaphor: Developing the Japanese Rhetoric Corpus, Tetsuta Komatsubara; Yuki Hirakawa; Rei Kikuchi; Hikaru Matsuura; Masaya Sato; Ayumi Tamaru, 2024/03, Japanese
- The meaning and formal properties of nouns: focusing on facets and microsenses, Kazuho Kambara; Masaya Sato, 2023/09, Japanese
- Fictionalization: Individual utterances or the whole work?, Masaya Sato; Yudai Inoue, The 5th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, 2022/11, Without Invitation, English
- Authors inside fictional worlds, Masaya Sato; Yudai Inoue, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2021, 2021/07, Without Invitation, English
- Are performative utterances really declarations?, Masaya Sato, 2020/11, Japanese
- Common ground and illocutionary forces of indirect speech acts, Masaya Sato, 2019/11, Japanese
- Cognitive mechanism of impairment of abstract attitude in aphasia, Ayumi Sato; Masaya Sato, 2019/08, Japanese
- Focus structure and potential for argument ellipsis in Japanese, Yudai Inoue; Masaya Sato, 2017/09, Japanese
External Funds
Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds
- Construction of a model for evaluation of philosophical theories about the acts of stating and its application, 2023/06, 2023/09