IJS Lecture: Michi Shiina
This is a pre-recorded IJS lecture given virtually on 3/02/2022, entitled "'Law of Gradual Decrease in Respect in Honorifics' and Inflation of Politeness: Shift from Honorifics to Benefactives in Japanese." The original event page can be found at https://easc.osu.edu/events/ijs-lectu....
Michi Shiina is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English at Hosei University and Director of the Institute of International Japanese Studies at Graduate School of Hosei University. She received her first Ph.D. in linguistics from Lancaster University and her second Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics from the Open University of Japan. Her research interests include historical pragmatics, linguistic (in)politeness, and stylistics in English and Japanese. Her main academic concern is in historical socio-pragmatics with a corpus-based approach. Her recent book Pragmatics of “sase-te-itadaku” has attracted attention from Japanese linguists as well as people outside academia. She is also interested in innovative features observed in young people’s language use.