MY RESEARCH PROFILE

My research of the past 30 years has been on discourse analysis of English and Japanese from sociolinguistic perspectives. My PhD graduate work was on the anaphoric phenomena beyond the sentence level of English and Japanese. Common in my work are terms such as linguistic and nonlinguistic antecedents, anaphoric scope, thematization, disambiguation, and salience. Having started my research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), all works were meat to apply to TEFL.

In recent years, I have focused more on English as an International Language (EIL). Linguists and Applied Linguists, who inspired me into the EIL studies include Henry G. Widdowson, Braj B. Kachru, Barbara Seidlhofer, and Jennifer Jenkins. My recent publications deal with changes in native speakers of English, nativization of speakers of English as a second language, creation of new English among speakers of English as a foreign language, development of wider regional standard Englishes such as Euro-English and Asian English. I characterize these regional standard Englishes as a loose league of local varieties such as Italian English, Singaporean English, which have clarity and international intelligibility but retain locality rather than conformity to Anglo-American English. They are Englishes used and understood by the educated speakers, native and nonnative.