Spoken professional American English

Since 2001, we have been working on the Corpus Spoken Professional American English, which was compiled by Michael Barlow. As the following list of presentations and publications show, we have explored various linguistic and discoursal features in spoken interactions in professional meetings and conferences.

Current project members

Yoko Iyeiri, Kyoto University
Michiko Yaguchi, Kanazawa University
Yasumasa Baba, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Presentations

Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri & Yasumasa Baba. “Subjective and Objective Hedges in the Use of Modals of Obligation in American Professional Speech in Public Contexts”. 10th International Symposium on Politeness (12-14 July 2017), 13 July 2017. York St John University.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi and Yasumasa Baba. “Negation and Speech Style in Professional American English”. ISLE (The International Society for the Linguistics of English) 3, University of Zurich, 24 August 2014.
Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri, & Yasumasa Baba. “The Use of Prepositions by Professional American English Speakers in Public Contexts”. IGALA6. Tsuda College, Tokyo. 20 September 2010.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, & Yasumasa Baba. “Try to do and try and do in Spoken American English”. Awareness Matters: Language, Culture and Literacy. The 10th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness. University of Kassel. 27 July 2010.
Iyeiri,, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, & Yasumasa Baba. “Turn-initial Words in The Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. ICAME 28. Stratford-upon-Avon. 26 May 2007.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, & Hiroko Okabe, “To be different from　or to be different than in Present-day American English: A Study of Style and Gender Differences Using the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English”. DIATYPE: Symposium on Diachrony, Dialectology and Typological Linguistics. Helsinki, 17 October 2003.

Publications

Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi & Yasumasa Baba. 2015. “Negation and Speech Style in Professional American English”. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University 54: 181-204. (Downloadable PDF)
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, and Yasumasa Baba. 2013. “Try to do and try and do Again: Verb Complementation in Spoken American English”. Kyoto Working Papers in English and General Linguistics 2: Special Issue in Honour of Professor Keinsei Sugayama on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday,ed. Michiko Yaguchi, Hiroyuki Takagi, Kairi Igarashi, Tsutomu Watanabe, Takafumi Maekawa, and Taiki Yoshimura, pp. 265-79, Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi & Yasumasa Baba. 2011. “Principal Component Analysis of Turn-initial Words in Spoken Interactions”. Literary and Linguistic Computing 26: 139-152. 2011. (Also published online 21 April 2011.)
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, and Yasumasa Baba. 2010. “Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions in Spoken American English”, in Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, ed. John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, and Tomonori Matsushita, pp. 179-96. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri, and Yasumasa Baba. 2010. “Speech Style and Gender Distinctions in the Use of very and real/really: An Analysis of the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. Journal of Pragmatics 42: 585-97.
Iyeiri, Yoko & Michiko Yaguchi. 2009. “Relative and Interrogative who/whom in Contemporary Professional American English”, in Germanic Languages and Linguistic Universals, ed. John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, Tomonori Matsushita & Hiroshi Hasegawa, pp. 177-91. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri, & Yasumasa Baba. 2008. “The Use of the First and the Second Person Pronouns by American English Speakers in Formal Meetings: An Analysis of the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. Setsunan Journal of English Education 2: 33-51.
Yaguchi, Michiko & Yoko Iyeiri. 2007. “Use vs. Non-Use of the Complementizer That in Public Speech: An Analysis of the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. Setsunan Journal of English Education 1: 1-16.
Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri, & Hiroko Okabe. 2005. “Style and Gender Distinctions in Public Speech: An Analysis of Attributive/Predicative Adjectives in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. The Setsudai Review of Humanities and Social Science 13: 39-54.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, & Hiroko Okabe. 2005. “Gender and Style: The Discourse Particle like in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English”. English Corpus Studies 12: 37-51.
Iyeiri, Yoko, Michiko Yaguchi, and Hiroko Okabe. 2004. “To be different from or to be different than in Present-day American English: A Study of Style and Gender Differences Using the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English”. English Today 20(3): 29-33.
Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri, and Hiroko Okabe. 2004. “Style and Gender Differences in Formal Contexts: An analysis of sort of and kind of Appearing in the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English”. English Corpus Studies 11: 63-79.
Michiko Yaguchi, Yoko Iyeiri, and Hiroko Okabe. 2002. “Do Men Talk More than Women in Academic Situations?: An Analysis of the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English”. The Setsudai Review of Humanities and Social Science 10: 95-108.