Yaeko Hori
International Studies Associate Professor

Biography
Yaeko Hori holds an M.A. in Comparative Cultures, an M.A. in TESOL, and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Human Communication. She is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business and a lecturer at Waseda University in Japan. Her interdisciplinary research interests encompass applied linguistics, psychology, immigrant studies, and the philosophy and methodology of phenomenology. Her work focuses on language use and learning, the philosophy of language and communication, and human identity formation in the contemporary world, particularly from a post-humanist perspective.
Research Interests
Comparative Cultures, Applied Linguistics, Human Communication
Final Education
Ph.D., Keio University
Academic Papers
- Yaeko Hori (2025) Liquid Crystals: A Phenomenological Approach to Complexity of University Students' Identity Formation Through Translanguaging Perspective. Applied Linguistics 46 (1)
- Yaeko Hori (2024) COVID-19 discourse in linguistic landscape: Linguistic and semiotic analysis of directive signs. Australian Journal of Linguistics 43 (4)
- Yaeko Hori (2022) A Short Commentary on English as part of Multiplicity of Resources: Focus on Translanguaging. JACET ELF SIG Journal 6 (6)
Book & Case Publishing
- Yaeko Hori In Carles Monereo, Crista Weise, & Hubert Hermans (eds.) (2021) Exploring young peoples’ experience of living with AI robots under the pandemic situation in Japan by a phenomenological approach through translanguaging perspectives(A posthumanist applied linguistic project). the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- William Glasser (2021) The Quality School・Teacher; A Companion Volume to The Quality School. ACHIEVEMENT PUBLISHER