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MAHER, John C.

Tokunin Kyoju (Professor by Special Appointment)

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	1986/07/01 Degree Acquisition	University of Edinburgh, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2.	1982/07/01 Degree Acquisition	University of Michigan, Master of Arts (M.A.)
3.	1976/07/01 Degree Acquisition	University of London, Heythrop College, Master of Theology (M.Th.)
4.	1974/06/01 Degree Acquisition	University of London, Batchelor of Arts (BA Hons.)

■ #Professional Background

1.		Master's Course, Public Policy and Social Research Program, Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences
2.		Doctoral Course, Ph. D. Program, Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences
3.	1993～1995	British Council Visiting Professor, Department of Language and Lingustics, De La Salle University, Manila
4.	1992/04～1993/03	Lecturer (PT) in Linguistics, Department of Psychology, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo
5.	1989/04～	Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Division of International Studies, International Christian University
6.	1989/04～1990/03	Lecturer (PT) in English, Department of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo
7.	1988/04～1989/03	Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Division of International Studies, International Christian University
8.	1986/09～1987/07	Lecturer (Linguistics), Department of East Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
9.	1984/09～1986/07	Instructor (PT) in English Language & Teacher Training, Institute for Applied Language Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
10.	1981/04～1982/09	Teaching Assistant (PT), English Language Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11.	1978/04～1981/03	Lecturer in English, Faculty of Medicine, University of Shimane, Matsue/Izumo
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■ #Present Specialized Fields

Linguistics, Area studies (Key Word：SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Pidgins, Language Death & Revival,MULTILINGUALISM: Ideology, Multiculturalism, Languages of Japan,PHILOSOPHY of LANGUAGE: Freud, Semiotics, Mother Tongue,NAMES: Toponymics, Patronymics, Politics of Names)

■ Profile

Director, Institute for Educational Research and Service
1999/01-2004/03, 2010/04/01-2013/03/31, 2014/04/01-2016/03/31

Chair, Faculty Meeting
1997-1999, 2004-2006

Chair, Graduate School of Education
2000/04-2002/03/31, 2003/09/1-03/31

Chair, Division of International Studies,
2004/03-2008/03

Director, GS Program, Public Policy and Social Research
2011/04/01-2012/03/31

Councillor, ICU Board of Councillors
2000/05/1-2003/04/30 & 2012/05/1 -2015/04/30

Chair, Faculty Council
2014-

■ #Main Course Titles

Language and Society, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Literacy and Society,

■ #Books and Articles

1.	Book	Literacy in Multilingual Societies (Collaboration) 2012
2.	Article	Nicknames: Identity and Social Management Educational Studies 53(3),pp.117-123 (Single) 2011
3.	Article	The Media, Multilingualism and Identities Media, English and Communication 50(1),pp.19-26 (Single) 2011
4.	Article	Multilingual Awareness in Japan: a survey of young persons' awareness of language diversity Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Japan 24(3),pp.pp.5-18 2010
5.	Article	Language Difficulty and Difficult Languages Contemporary Issues in Language Education pp.155-170 (Single) 2008
6.	Article	Language Difficulty and Difficult Languages Current Issues in Language Studies pp.34-42. (Single) 2008
7.	Article	Language Education Policy in Japa "Language Policy and Political Issues in Education. 2008. United States: Springer," pp.393-404. (Single) 2008
8.	Article	Language of the Sanka: Japanese Gypsies "Japan Studies: The Frontier," pp.69-79. (Single) 2008
9.	Article	Multilingual Japan and the Borrowers of the Chuo Line Intercultural Communication Studies XVII(4),pp.115-124 (Single) 2008
10.	Article	Multilingual Japan and the Borrowers of the Chuo Line "Intercultural Communication Studies, XVII: 4" pp.115-127 (Single) 2008
11.	Article	Death of German as a Language of Medicine "International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol.178," pp.42-58. (Single) 2007
12.	Article	"Metrolinguistics, Language and the Principle of Cool" "International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol, 175-176," pp.83-103. (Single) 2005
13.	Other	Reversing Language Shift and Revitalization: Ainu and the Celtic Languages Language and Society (in press) 2014
14.	Other	Ainu Place-Names in the Kanto Area Educational Studies 54,pp.27-38 (Collaboration) 2012
15.	Other	Linguistics and Language Learning (Revised edition 2012) (Single) 2012
16.	Other	Literacy in Multilingual Societies In Maher, John and Dobovsek-Sethna (Eds). Literacy for Dialogue in Multilingual Societies pp.92-101 (Single) 2012
17.	Other	I’m Deaf. This is Sign. Get Used to it: Sign Language in Japan: The Vision and the Struggle. In Henrik, A. & Masaoka, J. (Eds). Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan pp.139--152 (Single) 2010
18.	Other	Metroethnicities and Metrolanguages In N. Copland (Ed.) The Handbook of Language and Globalizaton pp.157-591 (Single) 2010
19.	Other	'The Nine Languages of Japa In Dobovsek-Sethna (Ed). Language and Human Rights. pp.53-63 (Single) 2010
20.	Other	The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Native Speaker In C. Elder, A. Brown, et al (Eds). Experimenting with Uncertainty, Essays in Honour of Alan Davies. pp.292-3-3 (Single) 2009
21.	Other	Language and Society in Children's Nursery Rhymes Educational Studies (44),pp.189-202 2007
22.	Other	Foreign families and schools in Japan: A new framework for participation and citizenship. The Japan mission journal, 56(1),pp.19-25 2004
23.	Other	From the discussant. Ogasawara research 29,pp.173-179 (Single) 2004
24.	Other	Language in the City In Eds. Araki, T. and Uozumi, M. Proceedings of the Conference ‘Urban Space and Language Space in Modernity pp.77-82 (Single) 2004
25.	Other	Language education in Japan: The multicultural challenge. In Jill Bourne & Euan Reid (Eds), Language education. World Yearbook of Education, London, Kogan Page. pp.127-139 2003
26.	Other	Language education in Japan: The multicultural challenge. 2003
27.	Other	Language policy for multicultural Japan: Establishing the new paradigm. In Steven J. Baker (Ed), Language policy: Lessons from global models pp.164-180 (Single) 2003
28.	Other	Language policy for multicultural Japan: Establishing the new paradigm. 2002
29.	Other	Introducing Chomsky (Single) 2001
30.	Other	Review of Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2000).  Linguistic genocide in education – or worldwide diversity and human rights? Mahwah, New Jersey & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 818 pp. Current Issues in Language Planning pp.286-291 (Single) 2001
31.	Other	The unbearable lightness of being a native speaker. In Eds. C. Elder, A. Brown, E. Grove, K. Hill, N. Iwashita, T. Lumley, T. McNamara, and K. O’Loughlin, Studies in Language Testing pp.292-303 2001
32.	Other	Married Names: a note on the floating signifier Educational Studies 42,pp.292-240 (Single) 2000
33.	Other	Fufu Bessei: Marriage and Change-Name Policy in Japa The Japanese Journal of Language in Society 2(1),pp.25-36 1999
34.	Other	Intergenerational Communication across the Pacific Rim: The Impact of filial piety In Eds. J.-C. Lasry, J. Adair, and K. Dion. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.Latest Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology pp.192-211 (Collaboration) 1999
35.	Other	Review of ‘‘The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics,’’ by A. Davies. TESOL Quarterly 31(3),pp.650-651 (Single) 1997
36.	Other	The Ainu Language: A Bibliography Educational Studies 36,pp.121-140 (Collaboration) 1997
37.	Other	Language and Diversity in Japa (Collaboration) 1996
38.	Other	North Kyushu Creole: an Hypothesis concerning the multilingual origins of Japanese In Denoon, D., Hudson, M., McCormack, G and T. Morris-Suzuki (Eds.) Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern pp.20-39 (Single) 1996
39.	Other	Maintaining Culture and Language: Koreans in Osaka In John Maher and Gaynor Macdonald (Eds.)Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. pp.160-177 (Collaboration) 1995
40.	Other	Multilingual Japa (Collaboration) 1995
41.	Other	On Being There: Koreans in Japa Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development pp.95-118 (Collaboration) 1995
42.	Other	The Kakyo: Chinese in Japa Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development pp.125-138 (Single) 1995
43.	Other	The Right Stuff: towards an Environmental Linguistics. Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language In John Maher and Gaynor Macdonald (Eds.) 'Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language'. London: Kegan Paul International, pp.3-24 (Single) 1995
44.	Other	Woman as Outsider: Sexuality, Society and the Family In Eds. John Maher and Gaynor Macdonald. Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. pp.202-226 (Collaboration) 1995
45.	Other	On Language, the Unconscious and the Museum.” Profiles of ‘Japonesia’: Language, Ethnicity and Power Editors Working Papers in Japan Studies. Tokyo: International Christian University Japan Studies Program pp.1-9 1994
46.	Other	2001 Definitions of Culture Educational Studies 36,pp.275-341 (Collaboration) 1993
47.	Other	'Asyndetic Speech'. Vol.1, pp. 247 'Auditory Hallucination'. Vol.1, pp.261 'Automatic Writing'. Vol.1, pp. 283 'Basil Chamberlain'. Vol.2, pp. 50 'Bikol'. Vol.1, pp. 352 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 1-6 (Single) 1993
48.	Other	Bilingualism and Group Boundaries: a case study Educational Studies 19,pp.22-37 (Collaboration) 1993
49.	Other	'Cebuano'. Vol.2, pp. 492 'Chiri Mashiho'. [with Suzuko Tamura]. Vol. 2, pp. 534-535 'Circumstantiality'. Vol.2, pp. 556 'Clang Association'. Vol.2, pp. 556 'Confabulation'. Vol.2, pp. 689 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
50.	Other	'Coprolalia'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher]. Vol.2, pp. 768 'Desultory Thinking'. Vol.9, pp. 4606 'Desymbolization. Vol.2, pp. 877 'Drivelling Thinking'. Vol.9, pp. 4606 'Echo de Pensees'. Vol.3, pp. 1084 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
51.	Other	'Echolalia'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher] Vol.3, pp. 1085 'Echologia'. Vol.3, pp. 1085-1086 'Free Association'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher]. Vol.3, pp. 1298 'Freud'. Vol.3, pp. 1306-1307 'Flight of Ideas'. Vol.3, pp. 1267 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
52.	Other	'Echologia'. Vol.3, pp. 1085-1086 'Free Association'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher]. Vol.3, pp. 1298 'Freud'. Vol.3, pp. 1306-1307 'Flight of Ideas'. Vol.3, pp. 1267 'Ganser's Syndrome'. Vol.3, pp. 1344 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
53.	Other	'Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher]. Vol.9, pp. 4641 'Hypochondriac Speech'. Vol.3, pp. 1624 'Illongo'. Vol.3, pp. 1646 'Ilocano'. Vol.3, pp. 1646 'John Batchelor'. Vol.1, pp. 314-315 'Kapampangan'. Vol.4, pp. 1835 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
54.	Other	'Grapho-Analysis'. Vol.3, pp. 1491 'Graphomania'. Vol.3, pp. 1491 'Graphopathology'. Vol.3, pp. 1491 'Graphophobia'. Vol.3, pp. 1491 'Graphorrhoea'. Vol.3, pp. 1491 'Gregory Bateson'. Vol.1, pp. 315 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
55.	Other	Korean Language Maintenance: An Osaka Study Pan-Asiatic Linguistics 3,pp.1440-1450 (Single) 1993
56.	Other	'Lacan'. Vol.4, pp. 1891 'Logoclonia'. Vol.4, pp. 2302 'Metonymic Speech'. Vol.5, pp. 2477 'Michel Foucault'. Vol.3, pp. 1293-1294 'Microcosm of Words'. Vol.5, pp. 2487 'Mirror Writing'. Vol.5, pp. 2506 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
57.	Other	Moria'. Vol.5, pp. 2542 'Noncorrespondence'. Vol.5, pp. 2822 'Overinclusion'. Vol.5, pp. 2894 'Pangasinan'. Vol.6, pp. 2916 'Paralogia'. Vol.6, pp. 2941 'Regressive Metonomy'. Vol.7, pp. 3511-3512 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
58.	Other	'Ryukyuan'. Vol.7, pp. 3636 'Samar-Leyte'. Vol.7, pp. 3641 'Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication'. Vol.9, pp. 4615 'Shichiro Murayama'. Vol.5, pp. 2633 'Speech Plateau'. Vol.8, pp. 4203 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
59.	Other	'Stereotypy'. Vol.8, pp. 4350 'Syndetic Speech'. Missing volume and page numbers 'Tagalog'. [with P.B.Naylor]. Vol.9, pp. 4515-4516 ‘The Language of Medicine’. [With J. Maclean]. Vol.6, pp. 402-404 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
60.	Other	'The Language Situation of Japan'. Vol.4, pp. 1804 'The Language Situation of the Philippines'. Vol.6, pp. 3009-3011 'Transitory Thinking'. Vol.9, pp. 4606 'Verbigeration'. Vol.9, pp. 4922 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
61.	Other	'Word Salad'. [with A. Nishizono-Maher]. Vol.9, pp. 5014 'Word Wit'. Vol.9, pp. 5018 'Writer's Cramp'. Vol.9, pp. 5032 The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Single) 1993
62.	Other	Multilingualism in the Philippines Asian Cultural Studies 20,pp.51-59 (Single) 1992
63.	Other	Phillipine Creole: Notes on Food Talk in Chabacano Creole Bulletin of Asian Cultural Studies 18,pp.45-57 (Single) 1992
64.	Other	Review of ‘‘Symbolic Values of Foreign Language Use: from the Japanese Case to a General Sociolinguistic Perspective,’’ by H. Harmann. Language Sciences 13(3/4),pp.447-452 (Single) 1992
65.	Other	The preposition 'Sa' in Tagalog Educational Studies. 34,pp.101-112 (Single) 1992
66.	Other	Bilingualism in Britain: Looking Back and Looking Forward Minority Groups Today pp.38-50 (Single) 1991
67.	Other	Review of ‘‘European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture,’’ edited by Josef Kreiner. Monumenta Nipponica Monumenta Nipponica 49,pp.385-387 (Single) 1991
68.	Other	Rev. of ‘‘Eloquence and Power: Language Standards and Language Standardization,’’ by Earl Joseph. Language Sciences 24(1),pp.37-40 (Single) 1991
69.	Other	Talking to Adolescents Language Sciences 12,pp.9-94 (Single) 1991
70.	Other	International Medical Communication in English 1990
71.	Other	So How Was Your Day Then? Story-Telling in the Family.’’ Studies in Applied Linguistics pp.7-24 1990
72.	Other	Doctors Who Write: Language Preference in Medical Communication in Japa 1988
73.	Other	Language and the Professions 1988
74.	Other	Mastery Learning and Humanism Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 49,pp.201-230 (Collaboration) 1988
75.	Other	Medical education in a multilingual and multicultural world Medical Education 27,pp.3-5 (Single) 1987
76.	Other	Concepts and scientific usage in English Bulletin of Shimani Medical University 119(10),pp.102-114 (Single) 1986
77.	Other	English as an International Language of Medicine Applied Linguistics 5(2),pp.25-38 1986
78.	Other	English for Medical Purposes Language Teaching 19(2),pp.112-145 (Single) 1986
79.	Other	Review of ‘‘English as an Intranational/International Languages: Pergamon,’’ by P. Strevens. Applied Linguistics 5(2),pp.49-50 (Single) 1986
80.	Other	English Language Education in Japan: Historical and Macro Issues in the Teaching of English in Schools Language Learning and Communication 3(1),pp.41-53 (Single) 1984
81.	Other	The scientific manuscript: Overview and guidelines for the ESP teacher. Cross Currents 8(2),pp.65--75 (Single) 1981
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2014/09/28	"A Postmodern Theory of the Mother Tongue" (International Symposium on Native Speakerism, Saga University, Japan)
2.	2014/09/07	"Multilingual Japan" (Symposium on Multicultural Kyosei. ICU, Tokyo,)
3.	2014/02/19	"The Everyday Life of Japanese Place-names" (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford)
4.	2014/02/03	“New Paradigms of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Japan" (Birkbeck College, University of London)
5.	2014/01/22	"Sociolinguistics and Toponomy" (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
6.	2009/03/11	Language Death and Language Revival: the case of Ainu ("Oxford East Asian Linguistics Circle, Oxford University, ")
7.	2009/01/22	The Case for Multilingual Japan ("Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, Oxford University")
8.	2008/11/14	Multilingual Japan: from 1968-2008 (Leeds University, White Rose Centre)
9.	2007/03/11	Language and Civic Engagement in Japan ("Minpaku (National Ethnographic Museum) Symposium, Tokyo,")
10.	2007/03/11	Languages of Japan: the current situation and a national survey of language attitudes (Akita International University)
11.	2005/07/10	"Death of German, Language Orphans" (Symposium on Language Regimes)
12.	2004/09/04	Metroethnicity and the Principle of Cool (Duisburg University, Duisberg-Essen, Germany)
13.	2004	Language situation of Ainu (Conference on Language and Diversity in the World. United Nations University.)
14.	2003	English as an International Language of Medicine (Wakayama Medical College Invited Lecture)
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■ #Lectures

2004/11/05

Multilingual Japan

■ #Academic Society Memberships

1.	2000/09～	UNESCO Linguapax
2.	1998/01～	The Japanese Association of the Sociolinguistic Sciences
3.	1990/04～	Linguistics Society of Japan

■ Professional Achievements

● Other note that should be mentioned specially on duty
1.		Research focuses on language and society (sociolinguistics), concepts of the mother tongue, globalization, multicultural society, identity, multilingualism, place and personal names, medical languages, literacy and development. Publication in progress includes: A Dictionary of Place-Names in Japan, Very Short Introduction to Multilingualism (Oxford University Press), Humanism and British Football (Chuo Koron).

■ #Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Place names, Political apologies, Pidgins and creoles, Language Death and RevivalMULTILINGUALISM: Ideology, Multiculturalism, Languages of JapanGLOBALISATION AND IDENTITYCool, Metroethnicity, HybridityPHILOSOPHY and LANGUAGE:Freud, Semiotics, The Mother TongueNAMES:Toponomy, Personal Names, (Key Word : )

■ #Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

50216256