MATSUMOTO Kazuko

マツモトカズコ | MATSUMOTO Kazuko

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (2)： http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kmatsu/jp/index.html , http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kmatsu/index.html

Research field (3)： English linguistics , Japanese linguistics , Linguistics

Research keywords (36)： Multicultural Tokyo Japanese , Multicultural Japanese , Colonial Japanese , Sakhalin Japanese , Diaspora Japanese , Diaspora , Diaspora Korean , language variation , Heritage language , Nikkei , migrant language , Latin America , adolescent speech , Sakhalin , language change , Linguistics , Postcolonial English , World Englishes , Brazilian Portuguese , Korean Sakhaliner , Japanese Korean , language obsolescence , Micronesian English , Palauan English , Palauan Japanese , loanword , koine , language contact , dialect contact , Nikkei Brazilian , Palau , Variationist Sociolinguistics , Sociolinguistics , English linguistics , Japanese linguistics , language variation and change

Research theme for competitive and other funds (23)：

2023 - 2027 The Sociolinguistics of Nikkei-Latinos on the move between Japan and Latin America.
2024 - 2026 Heritage language and identity in the age of boundaries and mobility.
2022 - 2026 Universality and locality in Micronesian Englishes: Comparative analyses across British and American (ex-)colonies
2022 - 2026 The General principles of linguistic changes in Anglophone communities in Japan
2020 - 2024 The sociolinguistics of language and dialect contact in Japanese Korean and Sakhalin Korean.

2021 - 2023 A sociolinguistic study of heritage languages and ethnic identities of migrants

2017 - 2021 Universality and locality in Micronesian Englishes: Comparative analyses across Micronesian Englishes and real-time studies of Palauan English over 20 years

2016 - 2019 Real-time studies of multilingual Palau: Language change over 20 years

2015 - 2018 English in paradise? Emergent varieties in Micronesia.

2018 - Narratives of Motherhood: Why not take your kids to your fieldwork?

2017 - Social embedding of language change in adolescent Palauan English

2013 - 2016 Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in contact varieties of languages: A cross-linguistic perspective

2013 - 2016 A comparative sociolinguistic perspective on contact languages in the Pacific.

2010 - 2014 The sociolinguistics of the rise and fall of postcolonial languages: The case of Micronesia

2009 - 2010 Japanese dialects in contact and new dialect formation in Palau

2009 - 2010 Support for presentation of paper at 8th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

2006 - 2009 Apparent-time and real-time analyses of language attrition: Palauan Japanese as an endangered variety

2006 - Support for presentation of paper at 16th International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa.

2005 - 2006 Language obsolescence in Micronesia: The case of Japanese in Palau.

2003 - 2005 A variationist approach to dialect contact and language obsolescence: The case of Palauan Japanese in a former Japanese territory of Micronesia.

2002 - 2003 Japanese language and dialect contact outside Japan

2002 - The legacies of former colonial languages in the postcolonial multilingual island of Palau.

2000 - 2001 Palauan Japanese: Language death in the Western Pacific.

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Papers (62)：

Kazuko Matsumoto, Mieko Takada, Sachi Yoshida, Akiko Okumura. Contact-induced language variation in Sakhalin Japanese: Phonetic transfer from Korean and Russian to a Japanese colonial koiné. Studies in Dialect. 2024. 10
Kazuko Matsumoto, Akiko Okumura. Japanese phonetic variation and change among Brazilian immigrants: An exploratory study of a “Multicultural Japanese” in the Greater Tokyo Area. Proceedings of the 48th Meeting of Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. 2024. 75-78
Kazuko Matsumoto, Akiko Okumura, Kenjiro Matsuda. Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan: Mobility, contact, and koiné formation among Latin American immigrants. Asia-Pacific Language Variation. 2024. 10. 1
Kazuko Matsumoto, Mieko Takada, Akiko Okumura, Sachi Yoshida. The genesis and evolution of a Japanese colonial koiné: Apparent-time evidence from Sakhalin in the Far East of Russia. Studies in Dialect. 2023. 9. 53-82
Kazuko Matsumoto. Nativization of Micronesian Englishes: A trend study of discourse markers in Palauan English. Proceedings of the 27th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. 2023. 28-29

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MISC (7)：

Kazuko Matsumoto. 人との出会いが世界を拓いてくれる-「第二の故郷」パラオでのフォールドワークー. 私を変えたあの時、あの場所. 2023. 43
Kazuko Matsumoto. Festschrift for Prof. Junko Hibiya in the occasion of her retirement from ICU. ICU Working Papers in Linguistics. 2020. 10. xiii
Matsumoto, Kazuko. Encountering Micronesia through sociolinguistic fieldwork. People and Culture in Oceania. 2018. 34. 89-100
Kazuko Matsumoto. Watch over my alma mater from afar. Bulletin Shiraume. 2005. 22
Kazuko Matsumoto. Encounters in sociolinguistics. The Newsletter of the College of Arts and Sciences. 2004. 474. 3

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Books (18)：

New Cambridge History of the English Language (2nd edition). Vol. 6.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes
Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 2024 ISBN:1119518318
Studies inn Dialects.
Tokyo: Hituzi. 2024
Micronesian Englishes (Dialects of English)
Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. 2024 ISBN:1501516035
Studies in Dialect 9.
Tokyo: Hituzi 2023 ISBN:4823411986

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Lectures and oral presentations (110)：

What real time studies can tell us about obsolescence: The death of a Japanese colonial koiné.
(ICLaVE 12, Panel on "Investigating Obsolescence: Where are we now?", University of Wienna, Wienna, Austria. 2024)
Heritage language, local dialect, and metropolitan effects: An exploratory study of a “Multicultural Japanese” in the Greater Tokyo Area.
(Methods in Dialectology XVIII. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. 2024)
Internal and external motivations for koiné formation: Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan
(Methods in Dialectology XVIII. La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. 2024)
唐辛子увожу всё туда с собой, и짐치作ります: Multilingual use and its variability among Sakhalin Japanese and Koreans in response to radically changing language policies.
(The 26th Meeting of Japan Association for Language Policy. University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. 2024)
Japanese phonetic variation and change among Brazilian immigrants: An exploratory study of a “Multicultural Japanese” in the Greater Tokyo Area.
(The 48th Meeting of Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. Fukuoka Women's University, Fukuoka, Japan. 2024)

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Professional career (1)：

Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Essex, U.K.)

Work history (7)：

2021 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Professor
2021 - 現在 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Joint Researcher
2019 - 2022 University of Bern Center for the Study of Language and Society Associated Researcher
2007 - 2020 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Associate Professor
2006 - 2007 Queen Mary, University of London Department of Linguistics Visiting Senior Lecturer

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Awards (2)：

2011 - Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies Award for the Best Publication by Young Scholars of the Year (Awarded article: Kazuko Matsumoto (2010) The role of social networks in the postcolonial multilingual island of Palau: Mechanisms of language maintenance and shift. Multilingua: 29(2): 133-165).
2006 - Tokyo Foundation Fellowship

Association Membership(s) (8)：

The University of Tokyo Language Variation and Change @ Komaba (UTLVC@Komaba) , Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) , International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) , The Society for Japanese Linguistics , Dialectological Circle of Japan , Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies , Geolinguistic Society of Japan , The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences

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