Division of English

Associate Professor: Hiroshi OHASHI (MA)
Assistant Professor: Christopher P. CARMAN (MA)

 

Focus of research

H. OHASHI:

Cognitive Semantic Analysis of English Constructions

Keywords: cognitive semantics, conditionals, grammaticalization, discourse, construction grammar

 

C. CARMAN:

Sociolinguistics, vocabulary acquisition, EFL methods and materials for medical students

Keywords: vocabulary acquisition, linguistic borrowing, EFL, medical English

 

 

Latest publications of our research

H. OHASHI

  1. Semantic Change in English Intensifiers that Have Developed from a Prepositional Phrase and a Noun Phrase, in The Journal of University of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol.29, no.4, (2007) 391-406.
  2. The Development of an English Intensifier Phrase: a Corpus-Based Study. (2006) English Linguistics Vol.23 (2) 403-432
  3. Conditionals in Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis (in Japanese), in Papers in Memory of the Late Professor Akinori Hirai, ed. by Takahiro Ohtsu, Kenji Matsuse and Nobuaki Nishioka, Kyushu University Press, (2005).
  4. The Semantics of Lose (in Japanese), in How Words Work: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Professor Seisaku Kawakami, Eihosha, (2004) 403-414.
  5. Beyond the Clause: Information Structure that Spins Thought (in Japanese), in Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics vol.6, Cognitive Communication, ed. by Toshio Ohori,, Chapter 4, Cowritten with Mariko Higuchi, Taishukan, (2004) 101-136.
  6. The Current Situation and Issues of Medical English Education and Suggestions toward Improvement (in Japanese), in The Journal of University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, vol.24, no.4, (2002) 429-437.
  7. Lose and the English Double Object Construction (in Japanese) in The Journal of University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, vol.24, no.2, (2002) 177-187.
  8. On the Usage of I’m There (in Japanese) in The Journal of university of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, vol.23, no.4, (2001) 381-387.

 

C. CARMAN

  1. Differences in Male and Female Speech in American English, in The Journal of University of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 12, no. 2, (1990), 231-238.
  2. Japanese Loan words in English, The Journal of University of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 13, no. 2, (1991), 217-226.

 

Presentations

H. OHASHI

  1. Pragmatic Factors in Grammaticalization: The Case of Intensifiers, read in the “New Aspects of the Relation between Grammar and Pragmatics”workshop at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, held at Seikei University on September 23, 2007
  2. Epistemic conditionals in English and Japanese, read at the 2nd UK-Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held at Cardiff University, England, on August 30, 2007.
  3. Category Shift and Subjectification: The Case of an English Intensifier Phrase, read at the 9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held at Yonsei University of Seoul, Korea, on July 18, 2005.
  4. Discourse and Conditionals, read for the symposium titled Discourse and Sentence Grammar, at the 56th Meeting of the Kyushu Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan, held at Kagoshima University on October 25, 2003.
  5. Extended Usage and Context: A Case of the English “All You Want”Phrase, read at the 10th Meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistic Society, held at Seinan Gakuin University on August 30, 2003.
  6. On the You V All You Like Construction, read at the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held at the University of Rioja, Spain on July 24,2003.
  7. Constructional Meaning and Lexical Meaning: A Case of the English Double Object Construction, read for the symposium titled the Expansion of Cognitive Linguistics, at the 54th Meeting of the Kyusyu Branch of the Japan Association of English Literature, held at Saga University on October 28, 2001.

 

C. CARMAN                                                                                                                           

  1. “Students Speak Out: Class Presentations”Japan Association for Language Teaching, Kitakyusyu Chapter, April 4,2004.
  2. “Homework: assignments that work” Japan Association for Language Teaching, Kitakyusyu Chapter, June 8, 2002.
  3. “‘Psychology Today’for Discussion Classes” Japan Association for Language Teaching, Kitakyusyu Chapter, December 9, 2000.
  4. “Teaching and Learning with Videos” Japan Association for Language Teaching, Kagoshima Chapter, October 14,2000.

 

 

Profile of staff

H. OHASHI
Associate Professor

  1. Name and degree: Hiroshi OHASHI, MA
  2. Keywords: cognitive semantics, conditionals, discourse, grammaticalization, construction grammar
  3. Publications and Presentations: Above mentioned
  4. Memberships in academic societies and social activities:
         ・The English Linguistics Society of Japan
         ・The English Literary Society of Japan
         ・The Linguistic Society of Japan
         ・International Cognitive Linguistics Association
         ・The Japanese Cognitive Science Association
         ・The Society of English Grammar and Usage
         ・The Kyusyu Branch of the English Literary Society of Japan
         ・The Linguistic Society of America

 

Christopher P. Carman
Assistant Professor

  1. Name and degree: Christopher P. Carman, MA
  2. Keywords: vocabulary acquisition, linguistic borrowing, EFL, medical English
  3. Publications and Presentations: Above mentioned.
  4. Memberships in academic societies and social activities:
         ・The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)
         ・Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
         ・The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Kitakyusyu Chapter; Public Relations Chair, 1997-2000.
         ・The Japan Society for Medical English Education.

 

 

Educational activities

　　English Ⅰ English Ⅱ are open for the first- and the second-year students. Each year is divided into four classes, each of which consists of about 25 students.

The objective of this course is to develop the students’ ability of English that is required in medical education and medical practice in the future. More specifically, the students acquire proficiencies in medical paper reading comprehension, plain and critical (paragraph) writing, and elementary to intermediate listening and speaking.

The students read medical topics in magazines and newspapers as well as English textbooks for medical students. They also summarize what they read, and write their views on them for paragraph writing practice.

In addition to conversation-oriented lessons by English-speaking teachers, we offer courses conducted in the language laboratory and computer rooms by means of audio-visual resources to improve their listening and speaking skills. We also give TOEFL and TOEIC practice tests to encourage advanced students in English. 

 

 

 

UPDATE    29/ 11 / 2007