Kohei Haneda

Kohei Haneda is a Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the CRC1412 fellowship. His research focuses on the processing and representation of Japanese honorific register, with prior academic training in Cognitive Linguistics at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) and San Francisco State University (SFSU). He holds an MA in General Linguistics from Leipzig University, where he deepened expertise in theoretical frameworks, psycholinguistic experimentation, and linguistic typology.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Cognitive Linguistics (KUFS & SFSU)
• MA in General Linguistics (Leipzig University)

Research interests span conceptual metaphor theory, blending theory, and the cognitive mechanisms behind language register comprehension. His current project investigates real-time register comprehension in adolescent heritage speakers' languages, part of the CRC1412 project C03. Awards include the prestigious CRC1412 fellowship supporting his research endeavors.