Chair: Tsutomu Yada

• A sociolinguistic situation of the regional language of Alsace: An investigation of linguistic landscape and interview in Strasbourg (Rei Sugiura)
• Regarding the on'yomi of "働": Focusing on ‘労動/労働’ (Woongseon Jang)
• The characteristics of Han-Vietnamese including sound repetitions in modern Vietnamese (Shota Sato)

Closing remarks: Masayuki Yoshikawa

Chair: Shota Kikuchi

Jun Terasawa
Fixed form and creativity of old English poetry

Chair: Yo Usami

• Dialect contact in the German School in Japan: Speech accommodation on phonological variable (s) (Eko Kaneda)
• Traveling between East Asian countries, how did returnees form their identity? Commonality and variety (Yue Teng)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Session 1, Chair: Kenjiro Matsuda (Kobe Shoin Women’s University)

• Kevin Heffernan (Kwansei Gakuin University), Keiko Nishino (Kwansei Gakuin University)
  Rethinking the stereotype that men explain: Evidence from Japanese public speaking and conversations
• Naomi Tokumasu (The University of Tokyo)
  Identity construction in the transnational Peruvian Nikkei community: Focusing on the children of dekasegi

Session 2, Chair: Kevin Heffernan (Kwansei Gakuin University)

• Aya Inoue (Aichi University of the Arts)
  Variability in obligative and desiderative expressions in current Hawai'i Creole
• Eko Kaneda (The University of Tokyo), Kazuko Matsumoto (The University of Tokyo)
  Dialect contact in the German school in Japan: Speech accommodation on word-final <-ig>

Session 3, Chair: Keiko Hirano (The University of Kitakyushu)

• PLEANARY ADDRESS: Kazuko Matsumoto (The University of Tokyo), Akiko Okumura (The University of Tokyo)
  Dialect contact and new-dialect formation: Brazilian Portuguese as an immigrant koine

Session 4, Chair: Aya Inoue (Aichi University of the Arts)

• Keiko Hirano (The University of Kitakyushu)
  Linguistic change in an English dialect contact situation in Japan
• Kenjiro Matsuda (Kobe Shoin Women’s University)
  Buried deep in the responses: Tarinai/taranai variation in the Okazaki Survey on Honorifics

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Satoshi Nambu (Monash University, Australia)

1. Change in the use of zero copula (da-deletion) in Japanese
2. Linguistic Landscape and Immigrants: A case study of Japanese-Brazilian communities in Japan

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Keiko Hirano (The University of Kitakyushu)
Linguistic change in an English dialect contact situation in Japan

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Language contact in an age of protests: Latest developments in Kongish (Hong Kong English)

Session 1, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• German dialect contact in the German school in Yokohama, Japan: Speech accommodation and second dialect acquisition (Eko Kaneda)
• Korean dialect contact in Japan: A case study of second generation speakers from North Gyeongsang Province (Jeonghee Kim, Sachi Yoshida, Kazuko Matsumoto)

Session 2, Chair: Junichi Iwatsuki

• The methods of forming characters in the Old Zhuang writing system (Liuzhu Su)
• How was "ikkun-ichiji (one kanji by one meaning)" established?: With the transition of écriture (yu "say") and the notion of kokuji (national characters) (Woongseon Jang)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Rika Yamashita (Kanto Gakuin University)
Pakistani bilingual pupils: Variation and change in language choice

Opening remarks: Masayuki Yoshikawa

Chair: Tsutomu Yada

• Japanese and Korean loanwords in the Russian language: The case of Sakhalin (Valeriya Evseenko, Kazuko Matsumoto)
• Processes in the change of mental states of interactants in request conversations: Focusing on the variation of evaluation and adjustment of evaluation (Yue Teng)
• Comparing CHJ with ONCOJ: Two Corpora Concerning Old Japanese (Tomoaki Kono)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Sachi Yoshida (Jissen Women’s University)
Bilingualism among Korean residents in Japan: Community background and characteristics of language use

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Mayumi Adachi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Language use of Vietnamese immigrants in Japan and Australia

Opening remarks: Tsutomu Yada

Chair: Junichi Iwatsuki

• Politeness strategies, conversational structure and attitude of speakers in request and invitation: A case study on 3 pairs of Japanese native speakers (Yue Teng)
• Transition from “Chinese character” to “kanji” in Meiji period, Japan: With a focus on issues about using Chinese characters and writing in colloquial (Woongseon Jang)
• Language maintenance and shift in the Japanese-Peruvian community: A case study from the Amazonian region of Pucallpa, Peru (Naomi Tokumasu)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Opening remarks: Masayuki Yoshikawa

Session 1, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• Concession with même in French from 16th to 17th century: Même si, même quand and même lorsque (Ryo Nakagawa)
• The indigenous characteristics in Sino-Vietnamese words: Focusing on the relationship between the semantic changes and the syntactic changes (Shota Sato)

Session 2, Chair: Tsutomu Yada

• Transfer from Mexico-Spanish to Japanese: Based on spontaneous speech of Japanese-Mexican speakers in Mexico (Akiko Okumura)
• Horizons from evaluation, language attitudes and interaction: Face and politeness on the variation of "request, refusal" and other interpersonal conflicts (Yue Teng)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Translanguaging and language contact

Chair: Toshio Ohori

Reijiro Shibasaki (Meiji University)
On the matter of chemistry between wh-clefts and the progressive

Opening remarks: Jun Terasawa

Session 1, Chair: Tsutomu Yada

• International schools as a sociolinguistic field of study (Masahiro Nagato)
• Language maintenance and shift in the Nikkei Peruvian community: Report on pilot study (Naomi Tokumasu)

Session 2, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• The indigenous characteristics in Sino-Vietnamese words (Shota Sato)
• The change from mu-form to darou-form (Gaku Kurita & Liu Yang Ling)

Closing remarks: Takashi Nomura

Opening remarks: Kazuko Matsumoto

Session 1, Chair: Yo Usami

• Language variation and shift in the overseas Chinese community with a focus on Yokohama Chinatown: Language choice, shift and mixing (Yusuke Kobayashi)
• Sentence-final particles derived from demonstratives in Vietnamese conversation (Mayumi Adachi)

Session 2, Chair: Tsutomu Yada

• On adversative clauses with the koso kakari-musubi construction in Old Japanese (Tomoaki Kono)

Closing remarks: Kazuko Matsumoto

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore)
Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Language variation in colloquial Singapore English: The sentence-final particle sia as a dynamic repertoire

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Mieko Takada (Aichi Gakuin University)
Research on the word-initial stops of Japanese: Synchronic variation and diachronic change in VOT

Opening remarks: Kazuko Matsumoto

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

• Language variation and shift in the overseas Chinese community with a focus on Yokohama Chinatown (Yusuke Kobayashi)
• Heritage language acquisition among Mexico-born Japanese descendants (Naomi Tokumasu)
• Phonological features of the Shanghai dialect in the early period of the 20th century observed from romanized materials (Yue Zhang)

Closing remarks: Kazuko Matsumoto

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Patrick Heinrich (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy)
Language life in Tokyo: Language variation and style

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Rika Ito (St. Olaf College)
Sounding like local without loosing ethnic identity: A case of Hmong Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

Robert S. Bauer (The University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong vernacular is ultimately doomed unless . . .

Opening remarks: Kazuko Matsumoto

Session 1, Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

• A sociolinguistic investigation of the Brazilian community in Ibaraki, Japan: A linguistic survey of Brazilian immigrants from the first and second generation (Flávia Feijó)
• Language crossing in diachrony: Pakistani pupils in complementary school (Rika Yamashita)

Session 2, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• Temporal change of text-messaging language in Japanese and Korean: From the viewpoint of "writingmatics" (Yasuhiro Arai)
• Diachrony and synchrony: The relationship between them (Takashi Nomura)

Closing remarks: Jun Terasawa

Chair: Kazuko Matsumoto

Masumi Kai (University of Guam)
Variation in acquisition and maintenance of the Japanese language by the elderly Taiwanese

Koko Takeda (Ferris University)
Change in the status of dialects during the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras: Evidence from research reports

Opening remarks: Jun Terasawa

Session 1, Chair: Jun Terasawa

• Variation of and speaker opinions towards the consonant /ɡ/: A case study in a new town in Sendai (Akiko Okumura)
• Transition and diversity of language attitudes toward Francoprovençal (Aya Sano)

Session 2, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• The effectiveness of attaching historical period information to a dictionary for morphological analysis: In constructing and using "Corpus of Historical Japanese" (Tomoaki Kono)
• Grammatical variation of pronouns in nineteenth-century English novels (Masami Nakayama)

Closing remarks: Takashi Nomura

Opening remarks: Jun Terasawa

Session 1, Chair: Jun Terasawa

• A sociolinguistic investigation of the Japanese Brazilian community in Japan: Points clarified and issues to be addressed in the future (Flávia Feijó)
• The influence of Mainland Standard Mandarin on the synchronic variation of the /ᴇ/ vowel in the Shanghai dialect (Yue Zhang)
• Variation in relativizers in Early Modern English: Its implications for authorship attribution (Shota Kikuchi)

Session 2, Chair: Masayuki Yoshikawa

• Japanese variation and change within the Japanese community in Mexico (Akiko Okumura)
• L2 literacy retention and development in Japanese returnee children (Joy Taniguchi)

Closing remarks: Takashi Nomura