Sotaro Kita
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Sotaro Kita | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) |
| Occupation | Psychologist |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Education | B.Eng., Mathematical engineering and M.Eng. Information engineering, University of Tokyo; Ph.D in psychology and linguistics, University of Chicago, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago, USA |
| Period | 1993 |
| Genre | Psychology |
| Subject | Scientific research into psycholinguistics; language, thought and gesture |
Sotaro Kita (喜多 壮太郎, Kita Sōtarō, born 1963) is a Japanese psycholinguist. He is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Warwick.[1] His work focuses on the psycholinguistic properties of gestures accompanying speech, relations between spatial language and cognition, language development, and sound symbolism.
Kita received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1993, working in the lab of David McNeill.[2] His dissertation focused on spontaneous gestures and Japanese mimetics.[3] From 1993 to 2003, Kita led the Gesture Project at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, one of the research foci of the MPI.[4]
From 2017 to 2023, Kita has served as the editor of GESTURE (published by John Benjamins).[5] Kita was president of the International Society for Gesture Studies from 2012 to 2014, and vice-president from 2010 to 2012.[6]
Kita's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation,[7] the Leverhulme Trust,[8] and other agencies.
Appointments
- 1993-2003 Led the Gesture Project at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 1994-2003 Senior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- 2003-2006 Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology in the University of Bristol
- 2006-2013 Reader at the School of Psychology in the University of Birmingham
- 2013–present Professor of Psychology of Language at University of Warwick
Books
- Kita, S. (2002). Jesuchaa: kangaeru karada [Gesture: the body that thinks]. Kaneko Shobo.
- Kita, S. (Ed.) (2003). Pointing: Where language, culture, and cognition meet. Psychology Press
