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Nigel Duffield
December 2011
About Me
- Nigel Duffield
- I'm a professor of language and linguistics, living and working in Kobe, Japan: from 2004-present, I held a permanent position at the University of Sheffield (UK); in April this year, I shall take up a new position in the Department of English Literature and Language at Konan University (Okamoto, Japan).
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