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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 (Single) 2011
3.	Article	The Media, Multilingualism and Identities (Single) 2011
4.	Article	Multilingual Awareness in Japan: a survey of young persons' awareness of language diversity 2010
5.	Article	Language Difficulty and Difficult Languages (Single) 2008
6.	Article	Language Difficulty and Difficult Languages (Single) 2008
7.	Article	Language Education Policy in Japa (Single) 2008
8.	Article	Language of the Sanka: Japanese Gypsies (Single) 2008
9.	Article	Multilingual Japan and the Borrowers of the Chuo Line (Single) 2008
10.	Article	Multilingual Japan and the Borrowers of the Chuo Line (Single) 2008
11.	Article	Death of German as a Language of Medicine (Single) 2007
12.	Article	"Metrolinguistics, Language and the Principle of Cool" (Single) 2005
13.	Other	Reversing Language Shift and Revitalization: Ainu and the Celtic Languages 2014
14.	Other	Ainu Place-Names in the Kanto Area (Collaboration) 2012
15.	Other	Linguistics and Language Learning (Revised edition 2012) (Single) 2012
16.	Other	Literacy in Multilingual Societies (Single) 2012
17.	Other	I’m Deaf. This is Sign. Get Used to it: Sign Language in Japan: The Vision and the Struggle. (Single) 2010
18.	Other	Metroethnicities and Metrolanguages (Single) 2010
19.	Other	'The Nine Languages of Japa (Single) 2010
20.	Other	The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Native Speaker (Single) 2009
21.	Other	Language and Society in Children's Nursery Rhymes 2007
22.	Other	Foreign families and schools in Japan: A new framework for participation and citizenship. 2004
23.	Other	From the discussant. (Single) 2004
24.	Other	Language in the City (Single) 2004
25.	Other	Language education in Japan: The multicultural challenge. 2003
26.	Other	Language education in Japan: The multicultural challenge. 2003
27.	Other	Language policy for multicultural Japan: Establishing the new paradigm. (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. (Single) 2001
31.	Other	The unbearable lightness of being a native speaker. 2001
32.	Other	Married Names: a note on the floating signifier (Single) 2000
33.	Other	Fufu Bessei: Marriage and Change-Name Policy in Japa 1999
34.	Other	Intergenerational Communication across the Pacific Rim: The Impact of filial piety (Collaboration) 1999
35.	Other	Review of ‘‘The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics,’’ by A. Davies. (Single) 1997
36.	Other	The Ainu Language: A Bibliography (Collaboration) 1997
37.	Other	Language and Diversity in Japa (Collaboration) 1996
38.	Other	North Kyushu Creole: an Hypothesis concerning the multilingual origins of Japanese (Single) 1996
39.	Other	Maintaining Culture and Language: Koreans in Osaka (Collaboration) 1995
40.	Other	Multilingual Japa (Collaboration) 1995
41.	Other	On Being There: Koreans in Japa (Collaboration) 1995
42.	Other	The Kakyo: Chinese in Japa (Single) 1995
43.	Other	The Right Stuff: towards an Environmental Linguistics. Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language (Single) 1995
44.	Other	Woman as Outsider: Sexuality, Society and the Family (Collaboration) 1995
45.	Other	On Language, the Unconscious and the Museum.” Profiles of ‘Japonesia’: Language, Ethnicity and Power 1994
46.	Other	2001 Definitions of Culture (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 (Single) 1993
48.	Other	Bilingualism and Group Boundaries: a case study (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (Single) 1993
55.	Other	Korean Language Maintenance: An Osaka Study (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (Single) 1993
62.	Other	Multilingualism in the Philippines (Single) 1992
63.	Other	Phillipine Creole: Notes on Food Talk in Chabacano Creole (Single) 1992
64.	Other	Review of ‘‘Symbolic Values of Foreign Language Use: from the Japanese Case to a General Sociolinguistic Perspective,’’ by H. Harmann. (Single) 1992
65.	Other	The preposition 'Sa' in Tagalog (Single) 1992
66.	Other	Bilingualism in Britain: Looking Back and Looking Forward (Single) 1991
67.	Other	Review of ‘‘European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture,’’ edited by Josef Kreiner. Monumenta Nipponica (Single) 1991
68.	Other	Rev. of ‘‘Eloquence and Power: Language Standards and Language Standardization,’’ by Earl Joseph. (Single) 1991
69.	Other	Talking to Adolescents (Single) 1991
70.	Other	International Medical Communication in English 1990
71.	Other	So How Was Your Day Then? Story-Telling in the Family.’’ 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 (Collaboration) 1988
75.	Other	Medical education in a multilingual and multicultural world (Single) 1987
76.	Other	Concepts and scientific usage in English (Single) 1986
77.	Other	English as an International Language of Medicine 1986
78.	Other	English for Medical Purposes (Single) 1986
79.	Other	Review of ‘‘English as an Intranational/International Languages: Pergamon,’’ by P. Strevens. (Single) 1986
80.	Other	English Language Education in Japan: Historical and Macro Issues in the Teaching of English in Schools (Single) 1984
81.	Other	The scientific manuscript: Overview and guidelines for the ESP teacher. (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

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 : )

■ #Social Activities

1.	2014～	Advisor. ICU Soccer League
2.	2010～2012	Advisor. ICU FC (ICU Football Club)
3.	2003～2005	Advisor. ICU Theatre Club.
4.	2003～2006	Mitaka RoundTable for Foreign Residents. Mitaka City Office.
5.	2002～2009	Board Member (Riji). MISHOP (MItaka Hospitality Association)
6.	2000～2004	Director and Writer. Bilingual Children's English Theatre.
7.	2000～2008	‘Mitaka Deaf-Sign Association’. Member. Volunteer Centre. Mitaka.
8.	1992～1996	'Navigator' and Consultant. FM Japan. J-WAVE
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■ #Exhibitions, Concerts and Athletic Meets

2001～2003

Bilingual Children’s English Theatre (ICU Seabury Chapel and Shin D-Kan)

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

50216256