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  • Dr TERUYA Kazuhiro (PhD, MA, BA)

    • Daily Used Post Title

      Assistant Professor

    • Areas of Scholarship

      Systemic functional linguistic theory and description, comparative linguistics, language typology, discourse analysis, profiling of registers, advanced second/foreign language learning

    • Education

      1999 PhD in Linguistics
      Macquarie University
      1996 MA in Applied Linguistics
      Sydney University
      1986 BA in Japanese linguistics and literature, Diploma of Education in Japanese
      University of the Ryukyus

    • Work Experience

      March 2009 –
      to date      		 Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      1991 – 2009 Senior Lecturer (first Associate Lecturer then Lecturer), School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
      2001 – 2005 Visiting Researcher, The RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
      1999 Consultant and translator for the Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF) TESOL project, Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney
      1995 Visiting Researcher, The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    • Teaching

      • Comparative linguistics studies of Japanese, Chinese and English (PolyU)
      • Phonetics, phonology and intonation (PolyU)
      • Discourse analysis (UNSW, Sydney)
      • Grammar as a meaning-making resource (UNSW, Sydney)
      • Language and Society (UNSW, Sydney)
      • Japanese as second/foreign language (UNSW, Sydney)
      • Systemic functional linguistics (PhD autumn course, Odense branch, Syddanske Universitet, Denmark)
      • Register analysis (Postgraduate workshop, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
      • Language description (Pre-Congress Institute of ISFC 2005, Sydney)

    • Administrative Duties

      To date Coordinator of BA in Japanese Language Studies, PolyU
      2000 – 2004 MA program coordinator, Department of Japanese, UNSW
      1996 – 1997 School representative, Higher Degree Committee in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, UNSW

    • Research Output (Selected)

      • Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M., Kazuhiro Teruya & Marvin Lam. In press. Key terms in systemic functional linguistics. London & New York: Continuum. [To appear in 2009]
      • Teruya, Kazuhiro. 2009. Grammar as a gateway into discourse. Linguistics and Education, 9, 67-79
      • Teruya, Kazuhiro, Ernest Akerejora, Thomas Andersen, Alice Caffarel, Julia Lavid, Christian Matthiessen, Uwe Helm Petersen, Pattama Patpong and Flemming Smedegaard. 2008. Typology of MOOD: a text-based and system-based functional view. In R. Hasan, C. Matthiessen & J. Webster (eds.), Continuing discourse on language, Volume 2 (pp. 859-920). London: Equinox.
      • Matthiessen, Christian, M.I.M., Kazuhiro Teruya & Canzhong Wu. 2008. “Multilingual studies as a multi-dimensional space of interconnected language studies”. In Webster, Jonathan (ed.), Meaning in context: implementing applications of language studies (pp. 146-221). London: Continuum.
      • Teruya, Kazuhiro. 2007. A Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese. 2 volumes. London: Continuum.
      • Teruya, Kazuhiro. 2006. Grammar as a resource for the construction of language logic for advanced language learning in Japanese. In Heidi Byrnes (ed.) Advanced language learning: the contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky (pp. 107-133). London: Continuum.
      • David G. Butt, M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Kazuhiro Teruya & Wu Canzhong. 2005. Review report on the research results for the Lab for Language-Based Intelligent Systems, BSI, RIKEN. Research report for Laboratory for language-based intelligent systems. (pp. 112-125).April 2000 – March 2005. Brain-Style Intelligence Research Group, Creating the Brain, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN.
      • Teruya, Kazuhiro. 2004. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Japanese. In A. Caffarel, J.R. Marin & C.M.I.M. Matthiessen (eds.), Language typology: a functional perspective (pp. 185-254). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
      • 照屋一博. 2004.「外国為替記事のドメインのモデル化：機能的分析」 日本機能言語学会誌, Vol. 3 (2004 秋), 225−249 (Teruya, Kazuhiro. 2004. The domain modelling of foreign exchange reports: a functional analysis. JASFL Occasional Papers, Volume 3 (2004 Autumn). 225-249.
      • 照屋一博（訳), 2000. M.A.K. ハリデー（著), 「意味のコンピューティング：これまでの経験とこれからの展望」及び、クリスチャン・マティスン著の「序文」『ファジィ・システム学会誌、Vol.12, No.5』, pp. 615-634.Teruya, Kazuhiro (translation), 2000. Computing meanings: some reflections on past experience and present prospects by M.A.K. Halliday and its introduction by Christian Matthiessen. Journal of Japan Society of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems, Vol.12, No.5, pp. 615-634.