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ITO Hisayasu

Department / Course College of Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Sociology

Academic background
1.	1986/06 Degree Acquisition	Master Course │ Columbia Graduate School of Bible and Missions, USA │ Completed │ M.Div.
2.	2000/09 Degree Acquisition	Doctorial Course │ University of the Free State, RSA │ Completed │ Ph.D in Biblical and Religious Studies

Committee and society
1.	2011/01 ～	Novum Testamentum Japonicum Editorial Board Editorial Board Member

Research activities
1.	2020 ～	Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS)
2.	1998 ～	New Testament Society of South Africa (NTSSA)
3.	2000 ～	Japan Society of New Testament Studies
4.	2020/09 ～	∟ Board Member
5.	2008 ～	West-Japan Society of New Testament Studies
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Subject of research
1.	Biblical Studies
2.	Studies using Pragmatics

Research summary
New Testament Studies, English Language Education and Pragmatics Johannine Studies, Speech Act Analysis, English Language Education and Pragmatics Literary and linguistic studies on John's Gospel, Studies on English Language Education from a pragmatic perspective, *Studies on English Language Education by ICT

Present specialized field
Religious studies, Literature in English, Literature in general, Linguistics, English linguistics, Foreign Language Education (Keyword：Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Speech Act Theory, English Language Education, ICT, New Testament Studies, The Gospel of John, Johannine Literature, Literary Criticism, Narrative Criticism, Reader Response Criticism, Irony)

Books
1.	2015/12	The story of Jesus and the blind man: A speech act reading of John 9（Acta Theologica Supplementum 21） │ ,pp.1-538 (Sole-authored)
2.	2016/02	Handbook on New Testament Interpretation (Chapter 6: Narrative Criticism) (Chapter 7: Speech act analysis) │ ,pp.173-206, 207-244 (Co-authored)
3.	2021/03/25	Here’s what’s changed : New Testament in Japan Bible Society Interconfessional Version │ (Co-authored)
4.	2023/01/20	This will change your English proficiency! ～Creating your own English environment～ │ ,pp.1-269 (Sole-authored)
5.	2016/06	Perspectives on English Language Education in Japan (Chapter 1:　Reflections on English language education in Japan: An insider's view - Book version) │ ,pp.15-38 (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	2001/08	Macrospeech Act for John 9 │ Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute │ 25/26,pp.49-90 (Sole-authored)
2.	2003/12	Narrative Temporality and Johannine Symbolism │ Acta Theologica │ 23 (2),pp.117-135 (Sole-authored)
3.	2003/03	Johannine irony demonstrated in John 9: Part I │ Neotestamentica │ 34 (2),pp.361-371 (Sole-authored)
4.	2003/03	Johannine irony demonstrated in John 9: Part 2 │ Neotestamentica │ 34 (2),pp.373-387 (Sole-authored)
5.	2001/06	The significance of Jesus’ utterance in relation to the Johannine Son of Man: A speech act analysis of John 9:35 │ Acta Theologica │ 21 (1),pp.57-82 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	1999/04	Command or petition?: A speech act analysis of the parents' utterances in John 9:21cd (Annual Congress of the New Testament Society of South Africa)
2.	2007/12	Pragmatic analysis on Biblical texts:A case of Chapter 9 of John's Gospel (The 10th Annual Conference, The Pragmatics Society of Japan)
3.	2020/09	Anachronistic or Plausible?: On the Application of Modern Literary Methods to Interpretation of the Gospel of John (The 60th Annual Conference, Japan Society of New Testament Studies)
4.	2016/03	Narrative Criticism and Speech Act Analysis (Symposium on How to Read the New Testament)
5.	2015/08	Narrative criticism (NTJ Study group meeting)
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Message
1.	Monology See my message in Japanese.

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