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Universality and locality in Micronesian Englishes: Comparative analyses across Micronesian Englishes and real-time studies of Palauan English over 20 years(Fostering Joint International Research)

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16KK0025
Research Category

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Matsumoto Kazuko  東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (80350239)

Project Period (FY) 2017 – 2022
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥12,480,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,880,000)
KeywordsMicronesia English / ミクロネシア英語 / Palauan English / パラオ英語 / panel study / パネル調査 / cohort study / コホート調査 / ディアスポラ / トレンド調査 / 樺太日本語 / コロニアル日本語 / diaspora / colonial Japanese / Sakhalin Japanese / trend research / postcolonial English / Micronesian English
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project explores the formation of Palauan English and the obsolescence of Palauan Japanese over time by reinvestigating the same speech communities two decades after my initial research. In recent years, variationist sociolinguists have increasingly conducted real-time studies of language change in monolingual communities. Given the rarity of this approach in the study of both language obsolescence and the formation of new varieties, this research project was methodologically motivated to fill a gap by reassessing the dying colonial Japanese variety and a newly emerging English variety in Palau. Another aim of the project is to strengthen foundational research on Micronesian Englishes by describing the history of their emergence and their linguistic characteristics that reflect diverse substrate languages across the region.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究はこれまで実時間調査が行われてこなかった言語消滅や新変種形成の研究に実時間の手法を用いた斬新なもので、社会言語学の調査方法論および理論面の前進に寄与するものである。また世界英語やコロニアル英語の分野では、これまで空白地帯とされ、その存在すら知られてこなかったミクロネシア英語に着目し、萌芽期より調査・研究・公表し続けたことにより、国際的な百科事典に新たに「ミクロネシア英語」という項目が加えられるに至ったことは、当該島嶼国への大きな貢献になり得るだろう。大洋州は日本の隣国で歴史的にも深い関係にあるため、日本人研究者が当該地域に関する研究を推進することは国際的評価の向上に資するものだと考える。

Report

(2 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2023 2022

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ベルン大学(スイス)2022

    • Year and Date
      2022-11-12
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Belau National Museum(パラオ)2022

    • Year and Date
      2022-09-08
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Canterbury(ニュージーランド)2022

    • Year and Date
      2022-07-21
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 見かけ上の時間を用いた樺太日本語の研究―コロニアル・コイネーの形成と変容―2023

    • Author(s)
      松本和子・高田三枝子・奥村晶子・吉田さち
    • Journal Title

      方言の研究

      Volume: 9 Pages: 53-82

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Speaking “Palish”? Nativisation of a newly emerging postcolonial English variety in the Pacific.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto.
    • Organizer
      12th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics 12 (COOL 12). University of French Polynesia, Outumaoro, Punaauia, Tahiti.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Dream goal. If I have the brain ollei, I want to be a lawyer: Nativisation of Palauan English amongst adolescents.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto.
    • Organizer
      Invited lecture at Research Seminar, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] A panel study of language obsolescence: The fate of (g) in a Pacific Japanese colonial koine.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto.
    • Organizer
      Guest lecture, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] A moribund Japanese colonial koine in the Pacific: A panel study of language obsolescence.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.
    • Organizer
      Panel session on "Panel research: Methodological challenges, practices and ways forward", Methods in Dialectology XVII. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A real-time study of language obsolescence: An endangered postcolonial Japanese in the Pacific.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.
    • Organizer
      Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (SS 24). Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A panel study of the obsolescence of a Pacific Japanese colonial koine.2022

    • Author(s)
      Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.
    • Organizer
      Invited lecture at LinguisTisch Lecture Series, Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] The history of English in Micronesia. In K. Bolton & D. Davis (eds.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.2023

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Kazuko Matsumoto.
    • Total Pages
      3120
    • Publisher
      Wiley Blackwell.
    • ISBN
      1119518318
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] English in Micronesia. In K. Bolton & D. Davis (eds.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes.2023

    • Author(s)
      Britain, David and Kazuko Matsumoto.
    • Total Pages
      3120
    • Publisher
      Wiley Blackwell.
    • ISBN
      1119518318
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2017-03-15   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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