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Laurence Mann is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese & Korean and Director of BrookesEDGE at Oxford Brookes University's School of Education, Humanities and Languages. He also holds an ongoing affiliation with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, where he has taught since 2017 and previously served in lecturing roles.
His research focuses on the relationships between form and meaning in texts, especially in poetic and oral genres of Japanese and Korean. Key areas include historical linguistics, multimodality, poetic rhetoric, and cognitive underpinnings of poetic appreciation.
The recent articles reflect a strong engagement with Old Japanese phonology, viral language in digital media, and orality in Shinto liturgies. Collectively, they demonstrate interdisciplinary work bridging linguistics, cognitive science, media studies, and East Asian textual traditions.
Scientific Awards and Grants:
- John Fell OUP Research Fund (2019)
- Creative Multilingualism Funded Research Project (2018)
- British Association of Japanese Studies John Crump Studentship (2016)
- Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities (2012-2015)
- Young Bin Min-KF Fund Grant (2014)
- University of Oxford Gibbs Prize (2008)
Laurence has supervised and assessed postgraduate projects in translation, East Asian pragmatics, and historical linguistics. He leads the research project Poetry, song, heritage: the Poetic Mind and collaborates on cognitive neuroscience investigations of poetic appreciation. He is a founding member of the ERP Studies for East Asian Languages and part of the Popular Music Research Unit at Oxford Brookes.
He is affiliated with the Europe Japan Research Centre and serves as an external examiner at the University of East Anglia. His professional memberships include Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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