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KUYA Aimi

Department / Course College of Letters International Studies and English Communication Program

Title / Position Professor

Academic background
1.	2017/05 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Oxford, Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Philology and General Linguistics
2.	2011/07 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Oxford, Master of Philosophy in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology
3.	2004/04～2008/09	Sociology │ School of Letters │ Kyushu University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2021/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of Letters, International studies and English Communication │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019/04 ～ 2021/03	Full-time lecturer │ Faculty of International Career Development, Department of English as a Global Language │ Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University
3.	2017/04 ～ 2019/03	Full-time lecturer │ Faculty of Humanities, Department of English │ Matsuyama University

Research activities
1.	2015/09 ～	The Linguistic Society of Japan
2.	2015/08 ～	Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
3.	2013/05 ～	The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences

Present specialized field
Linguistics (Keyword：Language Variation and Change)

Books
1.	2019/02	The Diffusion of Western Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese: A Variationist Approach (Hituzi Linguistics in English No.30)

Papers
1.	2025/01	Sociolinguistic Study of Language Variation │ NINJAL Papers │ 28,pp.51-77
2.	2023/03	Capitalization of INTERNET: Is it the Internet (Capitalized) or the internet (Lowercased)? │ 683,pp.115-128
3.	2021/12	Towards the Effective Adoption of English Loanwords for Japanese Public Communication: A Welfare Linguistic Analysis of Data from National Surveys │ Mathematical Linguistics │ 33 (3),pp.130-145
4.	2021/03	A Corpus-based Variationist Approach to the Use of It is I and It is Me: A Real-time Observation of a Syntactic Change Nearing Completion in COHA │ Gengo Kenkyu │ 159,pp.7-35
5.	2020/09	Is the Use of Sentence-Initial But Language Change in Progress? │ The Journal of Language in Society │ 23 (1),pp.210-225
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/09	Predicting the Probability of Adopting Homophonic Translation: English Words in Public Media in Japan

Winning science prize
1.	2021/11	THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN The Outstanding Paper Award of LSJ (2021) (A Corpus-based Variationist Approach to the Use of It is I and It is Me: A Real-time Observation of a Syntactic Change Nearing Completion in COHA)

Subject
1.	English?in Society
2.	Introduction to Language Studies