MASAYA SATO

Last Updated :2025/12/02

Affiliations, Positions
Institute for Foreign Language Research and Education, Assistant Professor
E-mail
massatohiroshima-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

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
  3. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
  4. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
  5. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
  6. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
  7. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
  8. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication IB
  9. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Communication IB
  10. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
  11. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
  12. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIA
  13. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
  14. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
  15. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
  16. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Communication IIB
  17. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
  18. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication IIB
  19. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Communication Seminar I
  20. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Communication Seminar II

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Explicit performatives and force recognition, International Philosophical Quarterly, 63(3), 315-336, 202309
  2. Are performative utterances really declarations?, Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 25-32, 202106
  3. Common ground and illocutionary forces of indirect speech acts, Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, 57-64, 202006
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Resolution patterns of again’s presuppositions, Papers in Linguistic Science, 24(1), 79-97, 201812
  8. 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

  1. 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
  2. Causal distortion in the statement account on explicit performatives, Masaya Sato, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference, 2025/09, Without Invitation, English
  3. 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
  4. The meaning and formal properties of nouns: focusing on facets and microsenses, Kazuho Kambara; Masaya Sato, 2023/09, Japanese
  5. 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
  6. Authors inside fictional worlds, Masaya Sato; Yudai Inoue, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2021, 2021/07, Without Invitation, English
  7. Are performative utterances really declarations?, Masaya Sato, 2020/11, Japanese
  8. Common ground and illocutionary forces of indirect speech acts, Masaya Sato, 2019/11, Japanese
  9. Cognitive mechanism of impairment of abstract attitude in aphasia, Ayumi Sato; Masaya Sato, 2019/08, Japanese
  10. Focus structure and potential for argument ellipsis in Japanese, Yudai Inoue; Masaya Sato, 2017/09, Japanese

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. Construction of a model for evaluation of philosophical theories about the acts of stating and its application, 2023/06, 2023/09