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Hirano Keiko

ヒラノ ケイコ | Hirano Keiko
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (2): English linguistics ,  Linguistics
Research keywords  (4): Language change ,  Language variation ,  Dialect contact ,  Sociolinguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (4):
  • 2018 - 2022 創始者原理の視点から見たアメリカ英語の影響力と言語変化
  • 2014 - 2017 Language change in a multinational Anglophone community and building a model for social network analysis
  • 2013 - 2016 New developments in Variation Theory and Multifaceted Analysis of the Japanese Language
  • 2004 - 2007 Sociolinguistic research on native speakers of English in Japan: Language variation and change caused by language and dialect contact
Papers (25):
  • Keiko Hirano. Dialect contact and linguistic change: Verbs of possession in a multinational Anglophone community in Japan. Bulletin, Faculty of Foreign Studies, the University of Kitakyushu. 2021. 152. 23-42
  • Keiko Hirano. Language change in a multinational Anglophone community: Linguistic factors of verbs of possession produced by speakers from England. Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. 2020. 254-257
  • Keiko Hirano. Language change and the importance of analysing social networks. Proceedings of the 42th Meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. 2018. 17-20
  • Keiko Hirano. Change in the use of Japanese among native speakers of English in Japan: Importance of investigating their social network and language life. Quest: Studies in English Linguistics and Literature. 2018. 23. 139-157
  • Keiko Hirano. Social networks and verbs of possession produced by native speakers of English in Japan. Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. 2017. 102-105
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Books (6):
  • Proceedings of Methods XVI : Papers from the sixteenth international conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2017
    Peter Lang 2020 ISBN:9783631801154
  • The future of dialects : Selected papers from methods in dialectology XV
    Language Science Press 2016 ISBN:9783946234197
  • New approaches to English linguistics : Building bridges
    J. Benjamins Pub. 2016 ISBN:9789027259424
  • Language contacts at the crossroads of disciplines
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014 ISBN:9781443866248
  • Dialect contact and social networks : Language change in an anglophone community in Japan
    Peter Lang 2013 ISBN:9783631627761
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Lectures and oral presentations  (41):
  • Grammatical variation of American Expatriates in a multinational Anglophone community in Japan
    (The 6th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. 2021)
  • Linguistic change in a dialect contact situation: Verbs of possession produced by speakers from England
    (The 6th Meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation - Asia Pacific. National University of Singapore, Singapore. 2021)
  • Language change in a multinational Anglophone community: Linguistic factors of verbs of possession produced by speakers from England
    (The 44th Meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences. Doishisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 2020)
  • Linguistic change in an English dialect contact situation in Japan
    (The 25th Conference of the University of Tokyo Language Variation and Change @ Komaba. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 2020)
  • Social network and language change
    (The 23rd Conference of the University of Tokyo Language Variation and Change @ Komaba. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 2019)
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Education (2):
  • University of Essex Department of Language and Linguistics (MA)
  • University of Essex Department of Language and Linguistics (Ph.D)
Professional career (1):
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Essex, UK)
Work history (4):
  • 2019/07 - 現在 University of Bern, Switzerland Center for the Study of Language and Society Associated Researcher
  • 2012 - 現在 The University of Kitakyushu, Japan Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Studies Professor
  • 2012 - 2013 Seinan Gakuin University, Japan Visiting Researcher
  • 2003 - 2012 The University of Kitakyushu, Japan Faculty of Foreign Studies Associate Professor
Association Membership(s) (7):
International Association for World Englishes ,  International Society for the Linguistics of English ,  Methods in Dialectology ,  The English Linguistic Society of Japan ,  The English Literary Society of Japan ,  Dialectological Circle of Japan ,  The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
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