Yoshiko IKEDA

Research specialties and disciplines

Intercultural communication,　rhetoric, and semiotics

Courses and Seminars

Research interests

In the field of intercultural communication, my research interests are focused on representations of the Other and their relationship to national identities. I have studied images of the Other in American and Japanese films from WW２to the present and compared and contrasted these images. I have also explored the cultural mechanisms that have created these images at critical historical junctures. In my analysis, historical, social, economic and biological factors dynamically affect one another. Thus, my academic interests are interdisciplinary; they include anthropology, interpretive and semiotic approaches, historical analysis, cognitive linguistics, psychology and psychoanalysis, film studies, as well as rhetoric and communication studies.

Message to students

I was 30years old when I enrolled in Graduate School in the United States. I went to study abroad with my husband and my one-year-old daughter. In the Master’s program, I had to spend much of my time on housework and child care and had a tough time finding the time for my own studies. I often regretted that I hadn’t studied when I was younger. NOW is when you can spend time for yourself and really concentrate on your studies. Enjoy your studies to the full and don't be afraid to sacrifice at the same time. That broadens your research base and brings you great fortune

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