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Nakayasu Minako

ナカヤス ミナコ | Nakayasu Minako
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (3): Linguistics ,  English linguistics ,  Foreign language education
Research keywords  (8): Spatio-temporal systems in history ,  Tense, aspect and modality ,  Historical pragmatics ,  English language education at medical universities ,  Pragmatics ,  Semantics ,  Cognitive linguistics ,  English-Japanese contrastive linguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7):
  • 2023 - 2026 How did the systems of space and time evolve in discourse? New explorations of spatio-temporal systems in the history of English
  • 2018 - 2022 Four-dimensional Analysis of the Spatio-temporal Systems: Space, Time, History and Discourse
  • 2015 - 2018 How Did Speakers Regulate Space and Time? Pragmatic Development of the Spatio-temporal Systems
  • 2012 - 2015 Spatio-temporal systems in Middle English
  • 2009 - 2012 Pragmatics of Tense: The Development from Middle English to Early Modern English
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Papers (41):
  • Minako Nakayasu, Michi Shiina. Where Authority, Speech Acts and Modality Meet: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Trial Record of King Charles I. Linguistic Beyond and Within. 2024. 10. 149-161
  • Michi Shiina, Minako Nakayasu. Strategies of Power and Distance in the Trial Record of King Charles I: Combinations of Personal Pronouns and Modality in Speech Acts. Variational Studies on Pronominal Forms in the History of English (Studies in the History of the English Language). 2022. 9. 63-89
  • Minako Nakayasu. Spatio-temporal Systems in Shakespeare's Dialogues: A Case from Julius Caesar. Studia Angelica Posnaniensia. 2021. 56. s1. 425-450
  • Minako Nakayasu. Spatio-temporal Systems in Chaucer's Language: A Discourse-pragmatic Analysis. Linguistics Beyond and Within. 2019. 5. 120-134
  • Minako Nakayasu. Space and Time in Middle English Letters: Dialogues between Paston Men and Women. Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny. 2018. 65. 120-135
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MISC (4):
  • Minako Nakayasu. Review of: Lilo Moesnner, The History of the Present English Subjunctive: A Corpus-based Study of Mood and Modality. Studies in Modern English. 2023. 39. 101-107
  • Minako Nakayasu. Review of: Grammar in Use across Time and Space. Deconstructing the Japanese 'Dative Subject' Construction. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 2010. 11. 2. 315-318
  • Minako Nakayasu. Review of: Norman Francis Blake, A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 2002. 37. 401-403
  • Minako Nakayasu. Review of: Satoko Hamamoto, Gender Communication. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia. 2001. 36. 328-330
Books (10):
  • Methods in Historical Pragmatics
    Hituzi Shobo 2018
  • Horizons of Historical Pragmatics: Grammaticalization, Politeness and Speech Acts
    Hituzi Shobo 2014
  • Introduction to Historical Pragmatics: Reconstructing Communication in the Past
    Taishukan Shoten 2011
  • (Meaning and Use of Language: The Dynamism of English and Japanese)
    (Otori Shobo) 2010
  • New Wine in Old Bottles: My Way to English Linguistics and Medieval English Philology
    Georg Olms Verlag 2010
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Lectures and oral presentations  (81):
  • How Did the Systems of Space and Time Progress in Discourse? Spatio-temporal Pursuit of the Pastons
    (The 53rd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2025) (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) 2025)
  • How Did the Systems of Space and Time Progress in Discourse? Spatio-temporal Systems on the Road to Canterbury
    (The 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC 19) (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 2025)
  • Bridging the Gap between EGP and ENP: Using CLIL Materials with First-year English Classes
    (The 7th JANET Conference on Nursing English (Hamamatsu Social Welfare & Exchange Center, Hamamatsu, Japan) 2025)
  • How Did the Systems of Space and Time Progress in Chaucer? A Discourse and Register Perspective
    (The Historical English Analysis and Research Tradition Conference (HEART) (The University of Warszawa, Warszawa, Poland) 2025)
  • Space and time in historical perspective: Piers Plowman and the spatio-temporal pursuit in dream visions
    (The 11th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within - International Linguistics Conference in Lublin (LingBaW 2024) (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland) 2024)
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Education (4):
  • 2002 - 2005 Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland) School of English (currently Faculty of English)
  • 2000 - 2002 Yasuda Women's University Graduate School of Letters English Linguistics and Literature
  • 1987 - 1989 Shizuoka University Graduate School of Education English education, English Linguistics
  • 1983 - 1987 Shizuoka University Teacher's College English
Professional career (2):
  • Master of Education (Shizuoka University)
  • Doctor (School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland))
Work history (9):
  • 2013 - 現在 Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Department of Integrated Human Sciences (English) Professor
  • 2007/08 - 2013/03 Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Department Integrated Human Sciences (English) Associate Professor
  • 2008/04 - 2011/03 Gakushin University Research Institute for Humanities Visiting Researcher
  • 2003/04 - 2007/07 Shigakukan University Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture Associate Professor
  • 2001/04 - 2003/03 Shigakukan University Faculty of Literature Associate Professor
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Committee career (1):
  • 2023/04 - 2027/03 Modern English Association Executive Director
Association Membership(s) (10):
Japan Association for Nursing English Teaching ,  Japan Society for Medical English Education (JASMEE) ,  Modern Englsih Association (MEA) ,  Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) ,  English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) ,  Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ) ,  International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) ,  International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ,  International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) ,  Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
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