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  SHIBASAKI Reijirou
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences
   Position   Professor
■ Books and Papers
1. Article "A little more thought to the decline of iwis: Analogy, reanalysis and obsoletism" (Peter Lang) Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches to Speech, Thought and Writing in English  (Single) 
2. Book The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (Brill/De Gruyter) Studies in Pragmatics Series  (Collaboration) 
3. 2024/12 Article "From truth to truly: The case of shinni ‘truly’ in Japanese compared to Chinese, Korean and Thai counterparts" Russian Journal of Linguistics 28(4),pp.843-864 (Collaboration) 
4. 2024/12 Article "On the impact of the length of English sentences on utterance choices" (tentative) IPSJ SIG Technical Report  (Collaboration)  Link
5. 2024/11 Article "The rise and fall of iwis as a pragmatic marker" Brief article (12 pages, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, ELSJ)  (Single) 
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■ Conference Presentations
1. 2025/08 "On the (de)grammaticalization of comparative standard markers to comparative adverbs: The cases of Japanese and Korean" (The 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL27))
2. 2025/06 Panel: Discourse-Pragmatic Markers of Chinese Origin in Asian Languages (IPC19) (The 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC19))
3. 2025/05 Workshop: More thoughts on discourse-pragmatic markers in the history of English (The 97th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan「日本英文学会第97回全国大会」) Link
4. 2024/11 Iwis: The growth and decline of iwis as a pragmatic marker (Special lecture) (The Forty-Second Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan (@Nagoya University)) Link
5. 2023/11 "Discourse markers of Sino-Japanese compounds and their discourse structure: With special reference to jijitsujoo and jijitsu" (Invited talk) (Seminar on the use of Chinese characters outside China) Link
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■ Academic Qualifications
1. 〔Doctorial Course〕, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Completed, Ph.D. in Linguistics
2. 〔Doctorial Course (1st Semester)〕, Graduate School, Division of Letters, Rikkyo University, Completed, Master of Arts (summa cum laude)
3. Faculty of Literature, Rikkyo University, Graduated, Bachelor of Arts (vice valedictorian)
■ Career History
1. 2023/03~2024/03 University of British Columbia Dept of English Language and Literatures Visiting Professor,
2. 2018/04~ Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Full Professor
3. 2013/04~2018/03 Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Associate Professor
4. 2007/04~2013/03 Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
5. 2006/04~2007/03 Okinawa International University Department of British and American Language and Culture Associate Professor
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■ Teaching Activities
● Efforts to Improve Educational Contents and Method (Including Teaching Evaluation)
1. 2023/05 'A round-table talk: Literacy education at the library and its future role' Link
● Textbook and Other Teaching Materials of your own
1. 2019/07 A complete translation of Language Change (Joan Bybee, Cambridge UP, 2015), Kaitakusya, Japan Link
2. 2009/01 Language and Culture at the Crossroads: Case Studies from Okinawa Link
■ Major Subjects
English I A/I B, English II A/II B, English III A/III B (Presentation), English Test Preparation (TOEIC)
■ Academic Associations Membership
1. The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2. 2014/12~2017/11 ∟ Member of the conference organizing committee
3. 2015/12~2016/04 ∟ Vice-Chair of ELSJ Spring Forum 2017
4. 2016/05~2017/04 ∟ Chair of ELSJ Spring Forum 2017
5. 2024/02~ ∟ Editorial board
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■ Social Activities
1. 2024/11 Iwis: The growth and decline of iwis as a pragmatic marker (Special lecture) Link
2. 2023/11 "Discourse markers of Sino-Japanese compounds and their discourse structure: With special reference to <I>jijitsujoo</I> and <I>jijitsu</I>" (Invited talk) Link
3. 2023/10 "Discourse sequence and the rise of the evidential marker to in Japanese" (招待発表)
4. 2023/09 A supplemental lecture on Haiku and metaphor (UBC, Dept of English Language and Literatures)
5. 2023/09 Pragmatics Gran Prix 2 Link
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■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches
1. 2022/04~  'Toward a constructional view of the co-evolution of formulaic expressions and discourse structure: A case from the history of English' (PI: Reijirou Shibasaki, No. 22K00610)  (Key Word : )
2. 2019/04~2024/03  The discourse-basis of anacoluthonic constructions in the history of English: Constructionalization across time and space (19K00693)  (Key Word : )
3. 2017/04~2023/03  "Formulaicity in everyday interaction: On the model construction of linguistic structures based on spoken language" (provisional)  (Key Word : )
4. 2019/04~2021/03  Basic research on grammaticalization in Japanese and neighboring languages  (Key Word : )
5. 2016/04~2019/03  "Diachronic aspects of projector constructions in English: Empirical studies from the perspective of constructionalization "  (Key Word : )
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■ Committees and Associations
1. 2011 Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale Refereeing Service
2. 2014/04~2018/03 The Modern English Association Member of editorial board
3. 2014/12~2017/12 The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) The Conference Organizing Committee
4. 2015/10~2016/09 The Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association The Organizing Committee (Chair at Host University)
5. 2015/12~2016/04 The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) Vice-chair of the International spring Forum 2016
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■ Award History
1. 2015/11 The English Linguistic Society of Japan The English Linguistics Research Paper Award Link
2. 2015/03 The English Linguistic Society of Japan EL Article Award Link
3. 2010/05 The Modern English Association Research Paper Award Link
■ Current Specialized Field
Aesthetics and art studies (Key Word:Historical Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Typology, Grammaticalization, Historical Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, The History of English, Japanese Linguistics, Asian Languages) 
■ Courses and Lectures taught or delivered in the past
1. English IA/B (conducted in English, online/offline)(Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences)
2. English II A/B (conducted in English, online/offline)(Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences)
3. English III A/B (Presentation skills, conducted in English, online/offline)(Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences)
4. English Test Preparation (TOEIC), Online/Offline(Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences)
5. Linguistics (conducted in English)(Meiji University School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences)
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