• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to previous page

Language change in a multinational Anglophone community and building a model for social network analysis

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370494
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionThe University of Kitakyushu

Principal Investigator

Hirano Keiko  北九州市立大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60341286)

Research Collaborator BRITAIN David  University of Bern
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords多国籍アングロフォンコミュニティ / 言語変化 / 社会的ネットワーク
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This real-time study investigated social network related dialect contact and linguistic accommodation in the use of verbs expressing obligation and possession in a multinational Anglophone community in Japan. A statistical analysis revealed that these speakers demonstrated both convergence and divergence after a year in Japan depending on their national group and their social networks. The present study demonstrated the mechanisms of this linguistic change in the community and the importance of social network in accounting for the consequences of dialect contact and linguistic accommodation.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] アングロフォンコミュニティにおける「義務を表わす英語表現」のバリエーションと変化2016

    • Author(s)
      平野 圭子
    • Journal Title

      社会言語科学会『第38回大会発表論文集』

      Volume: - Pages: 106-109

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A new-dialect formation in an L2 setting: A rudimentary levelling among native speakers of English in Japan2015

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko
    • Journal Title

      Online Publication of the 19th International Congress of Linguists, 2013

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Contact-induced levelling: The beginning stages of koineization of English in Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko
    • Journal Title

      In Heli Paulasto, Lea Meriläinen, Helka Riionheimo and Maria Kok (eds.), Language contacts at the crossroads of disciplines. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

      Volume: - Pages: 215-250

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] アングロフォンコミュニティにおける「義務を表わす英語表現」のバリエーションと変化2016

    • Author(s)
      平野 圭子
    • Organizer
      第38回社会言語科学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都外国語大学(京都府京都市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-04
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Convergence or divergence?: Social network and grammatical variation in a community of expatriate English speakers2016

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, K.
    • Organizer
      The 21st Sociolinguistics Symposium
    • Place of Presentation
      スペイン・ムルシア
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-16
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Convergence or divergence?: Social network and grammatical variation in a community of expatriate English speakers2016

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko
    • Organizer
      The 21th Sociolinguistics Symposium
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-16
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The effect of social networks on the dialect grammar used by speakers of English: Variation and change in possessive verbs2016

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, K. and Britain, D.
    • Organizer
      Language Variation and Change 2016 Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      九州大学(福岡県福岡市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] The effect of social networks on the dialect grammar used by speakers of English: Variation and change in possessive verbs2016

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko and Britain, David
    • Organizer
      Language Variation and Change 2016 Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-28
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Grammatical variation in a dialect contact situation: Accommodation of verbs of obligation2015

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko
    • Organizer
      The 8th Conference of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-17
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The influence of social networks on grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation produced by native speakers of English in Japan2015

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko and Britain, David
    • Organizer
      Language Variation and Change 2015 Forum
    • Place of Presentation
      Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-30
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko, and Britain, David
    • Organizer
      The 3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English
    • Place of Presentation
      Zurich, Switzerland
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-24
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Code-switching in the Anglophone community in Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko
    • Organizer
      The 15th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology
    • Place of Presentation
      Groningen, the Netherlands
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges2016

    • Author(s)
      S. Chevalier, A. Gardner, A. Honkapohja, M. Hundt, G. Schneider, O. Timofeeva, K. Hirano, D. Britain, M. Krug, O. Schutzler, V. Werner, E. Green, E. Bruckmaier, A. Schneider, M. Laitinen, A. Warnsby, A. Kauppinen, A. Eriksson, M. Wiktorsson, E. Bick, L. Olsson, G. Gilquin, A. Schramm, M. Mensink, G. Schneider 他
    • Total Pages
      326
    • Publisher
      John Benjamins
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Future of Dialects: Selected Papers from Methods in Dialectology XV (Language Variation 1)2016

    • Author(s)
      Hirano, Keiko (Edited by Marie-Helene Cote, Remco Knooihuizen and John Nerbonne)
    • Total Pages
      411
    • Publisher
      Language Science Press
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Book] New approaches in English Linguistics: Building Bridges, the Studies in Language Companion Series2016

    • Author(s)
      HIrano, Keiko, and Britain, David (Edited by Elizabeth Traugott and Bernd Kortmann)
    • Publisher
      John Benjamins
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

URL: 

Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi