Researchers

MORITA Emma

Faculty	Major in Global Studies
Researchmap	https://researchmap.jp/emma_tamaianu-morita

Apr. 2016 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of International Studies Professor
Apr. 2025 - Sep. 2025 , Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Part-time professor
Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2016 , Akita Unversity Faculty of Education and Human Studies Professor
Feb. 2002 - Mar. 2009 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
Sep. 1999 - Feb. 2002 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Assistant Professor
Feb. 1994 - Sep. 1999 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Lecturer
Oct. 1990 - Feb. 1994 , Babes-Bolyai University Faculty of Letters Assistant

Eugenio Coseriu Integral Linguistics, text typology, cultural semiotics, contrastive linguistics, text linguistics, translation analysis

Of plum trees, lotuses and snakes: Cultural functions of naming and re-naming in Japanese toponymy
Emma Tamaianu-Morita
Felecan Oliviu and Alina Bughesiu (eds.), Name and Naming. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming: (In)correctness in Onomastics”, Baia Mare, Sept. 5-7 2023, Cluj-Napoca: MEGA Publishing House , 383-393, Dec. 2024 , Refereed
Over-specification in Japanese translations of “Song of Myself”
Emma Tamaianu-Morita
TIES (Journal of Literature Text, Image and Sound): Speaking in Tongues: Celebrating Walt Whitman in Translation (7) , 120-140, Dec. 2022 , Refereed
A Coserian Outlook on Textual Meaning – With Some Observations Regarding the Process of Translation
Emma Tamaianu-Morita
Ofelia Ichim et.al. (eds.), Provocări trecute și prezente în evoluția limbii, literaturii și culturii române, Timișoara: Editura Universității de Vest , 581-596, Dec. 2022 , Refereed

Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, Special Issue of “American, British and Canadian Studies”, Vol. 41 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Lucian Blaga University Press, Sibiu , Dec. 2023
Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (II), Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 16 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Suceava: Suceava University Press , Dec. 2021
Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I), Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 15 , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Suceava: Suceava University Press , Dec. 2021

“Prince of the Stars”: Authority, Self-assertion and Intertextual dialogue in Japanese Translations of A. de Saint-Exupéry’s “Le Petit Prince” , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , International conference “Putting Translators on the Map. Literary (Self-) Representation in Translations from and into French - Historical and Contemporary Strategies”, Ghent University, 3-5 Nov. 2025 , 5, Nov. 2025
Intuitive knowledge vs. contrastive analysis in studying foreign languages: Coserian and Humboldtian insights , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Ninth “Eugenio Coseriu” International School in Integral Linguistics “Topicality of Eugenio Coseriu’s Theoretical Outlook”, Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, Center of Integralist Studies, 28 August - 4 September 2025 , 29, Aug. 2025
How Natural is an Artificial Haiku? Some Considerations on the Issue of Creativity and Text Type , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Ninth International Conference Linguistica Coseriana IX: Linguistic and Poetic Creativity, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania , 21, Feb. 2025

Being // Non-being as Vectors of Thought and Expression , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Editor’s Note to Being // Non-Being: Interpretive Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Culture, Special Issue of “American, British and Canadian Studies” , 41 , 1 , 1 , 8 , Dec. 2023
Introductory Note , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Emma Tămâianu-Morita (ed.), Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I). Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, Suceava: Suceava University Press , 16 , 11 , 14 , Dec. 2021
Coseriu 100, 50, 20 – What numbers count (for) in a life in science , Emma Tamaianu-Morita , Opening statement to Emma Tămâianu-Morita (ed.), Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (I). Thematic issue of “Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies”, no. 15/2021, Suceava: Suceava University Press , 15 , 11 , 21 , Dec. 2021

Sep. 2013, Ministry of National Education (Romania), Diploma of excellence (for outstanding contributions to promoting national cultural values and educational cooperation between Romania and Japan)
Dec. 2003, Babes-Bolyai University, Diploma of didactic excellence (for introducing innovative teaching methods and quality assurance mechanisms)

Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation II, Program 4, Partnerships in Priority Domains, Interactive System for the Analysis of Written Romanian. Theoretical Model and Implementation Technology - SINTEGRO
Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, National Plan of Research, Development and Innovation I - CEEX (Excellence Research), Software System For The Phrase Analysis of Romanian Texts. Theoretical Foundations and Implementation - SIASTRO
Japan Foundation, Japanese language education fellowship, Development of a functional grammar textbook focused on intermediate constructions, addressed to Romanian university students specializing in Japanese