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

• Project/Area Number: 26370494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: The 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: ¥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.

Research Products

• [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
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A new-dialect formation in an L2 setting: A rudimentary levelling among native speakers of English in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Hirano, Keiko
  • Journal Title: Online Publication of the 19th International Congress of Linguists, 2013 Volume: -
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Contact-induced levelling: The beginning stages of koineization of English in Japan (2014)
  • 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
  • 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
• [Presentation] Convergence or divergence?: Social network and grammatical variation in a community of expatriate English speakers (2016)
  • 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
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Convergence or divergence?: Social network and grammatical variation in a community of expatriate English speakers (2016)
  • Author(s): Hirano, Keiko
  • Organizer: The 21th Sociolinguistics Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-16
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The effect of social networks on the dialect grammar used by speakers of English: Variation and change in possessive verbs (2016)
  • 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
• [Presentation] The effect of social networks on the dialect grammar used by speakers of English: Variation and change in possessive verbs (2016)
  • 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
• [Presentation] Grammatical variation in a dialect contact situation: Accommodation of verbs of obligation (2015)
  • 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
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The influence of social networks on grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation produced by native speakers of English in Japan (2015)
  • 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
• [Presentation] Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan (2014)
  • 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
• [Presentation] Code-switching in the Anglophone community in Japan (2014)
  • 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
• [Book] New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building Bridges (2016)
  • 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
• [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
• [Book] New approaches in English Linguistics: Building Bridges, the Studies in Language Companion Series (2016)
  • Author(s): HIrano, Keiko, and Britain, David (Edited by Elizabeth Traugott and Bernd Kortmann)
  • Publisher: John Benjamins