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About Florian Coulmas & Harry Whitaker

Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. He has published numerous books, including ‘An Introduction to Multilingualism’ (OUP, 2017) and ‘Writing and Society: A Introduction’ (Cambridge University Press, 2013). In 2016, he was awarded the Meyer-Struckmann-Prize for Research in Arts and Social Sciences. For the past three decades he has served as Associate Editor of the ‘International Journal of the Sociology of Languages’, during which time he has observed the steadily increasing use of the concept of identity in both general and scholarly publications. His book, ‘Identity: A Very Short Introduction’, was published in February 2019. Harry Whitaker is a renowned psychologist and neurolinguist. He retired from the Department of Psychological Science, Northern Michigan University. Harry does research in Cognitive Science, Differential Psychology and Neuropsychology. Current projects: a book on individual differences and revisions to the book Approaches to a History of Western Psychology which is likely to be re-named 'history of psychology and neuroscience'.'

Articles with Florian Coulmas & Harry Whitaker

Hiroshima is fading

Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. His book, ‘Identity: A Very Short Introduction’, was published in February 2019.

Harry Whitaker is a renowned psychologist and neurolinguist, researching in Cognitive Science, Differential Psychology and Neuropsychology.

In this feature they discuss their experience of Hiroshima.