KANETANI Masaru

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
ORCID
0000-0003-0241-0487
Birth date
1979-02
URL
Research fields
English linguistics
Research keywords
construction grammar
pragmatics
cognitive linguistics
clausal linkage and modification
Research projects
英語重複語の多覚性と表出性に関するMultimodal Construction Grammar分析2023-04 -- 2026-03KANETANI MasaruJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)3,640,000Yen
Ideophoneと言語進化に関する日英語を中心にした語用論・類型論的研究2019-04 -- 2024-03KANETANI MasaruJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)2,340,000Yen
Ideophoneと言語進化に関する予備研究2018-08 -- 2019-03KANETANI MasaruUniversity of Tsukuba/研究基盤支援プログラム（Ａタイプ）743,000Yen
Default Preferences and the Functions of Constructions in Japanese and English2018-04 -- 2022-03HIROSE YukioJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)4,290,000Yen
Thing-Construals of Events and Coercion in Construction Grammar2013-04 -- 2017-03KANETANI MasaruJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)2,600,000Yen
A Contrastive Study of Japanese and English on the Relation between Grammar and Pragmatics2012-04 -- 2016-03HIROSE YukioJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)9,800,000Yen
Licensing of Constructions by Analogy and Its Mechanisms2010-04 -- 2013-03KANETANI MasaruJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)1,040,000Yen
Career history
2011-04 -- 2011-09千葉県立保健医療大学非常勤講師
2008-04 -- 2009-03筑波大学外国語センター非常勤講師
2009-04 -- 2012-03Kanda University of International Studies外国語学部Assistant Professor
2012-04 -- (current)University of TsukubaFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesAssistant Professor
2014-04 -- 2015-03関東学院大学文学部非常勤講師
2015-04 -- 2018-03関東学院大学国際文化学部非常勤講師
Academic background
1997-04 -- 2002-03Tottori University Faculty of Education
2002-04 -- 2008-03University of Tsukuba Doctoral Program in Humanities and Social Sciences
Degree
2002-03Bachelor of Arts (Education)Tottori University
2004-03Master of Arts (linguistics)University of Tsukuba
2008-03Ph.D. in linguisticsUniversity of Tsukuba
Academic societies
2022-06 -- (current)Linguistic Society of America
2002 -- (current)Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
2002 -- (current)The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2004 -- (current)THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE
2018 -- (current)Societas Linguistica Europaea
Honors & Awards
2019-11ELSJ PrizeCausation and Reasoning Constructions (John Benajims, 2019)
Articles
  • Twin Forms in English: A Multimodal Construction Grammar Analysis
    Kanetani Masaru
    Tsukuba English Studies/42/pp.53-72, 2024-02
  • On the Relation between Richness of Ideophones and Private-Self-Centeredness: A Comparison of Japanese and English
    Kanetani Masaru
    Tsukuba English Studies/40/pp.267-287, 2022-02
  • A grammatico-pragmatic analysis of the because X construction: Private expression within public expression [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
    Kanetani Masaru
    F1000Research 2022, 10:965, 2022-02
  • Mental representations of multimodal constructions: The case of Japanese psychomimes
    Kanetani Masaru
    Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34: The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research/pp.174-185, 2021-05
  • Review of Johnson, Mark (2017) Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
    Kanetani Masaru
    English Linguistics/37(1)/pp.80-89, 2020-09
  • General Properties of Language as Seen from Anomalous Constructions and Peripheral Phenomena
    金谷 優; 三野貴志; 辻早代加; 住𠮷誠
    JELS（日本英語学会研究発表論文集）/37/pp.156-159, 2020-03
  • The Because X Consturction: Not Constructionalized Yet?
    Kanetani Masaru
    JELS 35/pp.245-251, 2018-02
  • A Note on the Because X Construction: With Special Reference to the X-Element
    Kanetani Masaru
    STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE(Language)/70/pp.67-79, 2016-10
  • On the New Usage of Because
    Kanetani Masaru
    STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE(Language)/68/pp.63-80, 2015-09
  • Review: Panther, Klaus-Uwe and Günter Radden (eds.) (2011) Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon
    Kanetani Masaru
    English Linguistics, 2014-12
  • The "Marginal Acceptability" of Noun Phrase Modification by an Adverb Clause
    Kanetani Masaru
    STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE(Language)/66/pp.21-34, 2014-10
  • Noun Phrase Modifications by Adverb Clauses
    Kanetani Masaru
    Studies in Language and Literature [Language]/64/pp.41-58, 2013-10
  • Another Look at the Metalnguistic Because-Clause Construction
    金谷 優
    Tsukuba English Studies/31/pp.1-18, 2012-09
  • 副詞節による名詞句の修飾
    金谷 優
    英語語法文法研究/19/pp.114-128, 2012-12
  • Review: Construction Morphology by Geert Booij (2010).
    金谷 優
    Studies in English Literature [English Number]/54/pp.139-146, 2013-03
  • A Note on Because-Clauses
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/23/pp.91-98, 2004-09
  • Because/Sinceの焦点化について
    金谷優
    JELS/22/pp.21-30, 2005-03
  • Relations among Constructions with Because: With Special Reference to Metalinguistic Uses of Because
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/24/pp.31-50, 2005-09
  • メタ言語的に理由を表わす構文とその継承関係
    金谷優
    JELS/23/pp.60-69, 2006-03
  • Constructions of Causation and Reasoning
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/25/pp.19-40, 2006-09
  • Because Constructions in English and Kara Constructions in Japanese: From a Contrastive Construction Grammar Perspective
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/26/pp.35-52, 2007-09
  • Focalizations of Because and Since: Since-Clauses Can be Focalized by Certain Focusing Adverbs, Especially Since There is no Reason to Ban It
    Masaru Kanetani
    English Linguistics/24(2)/pp.341-362, 2007-12
  • 対照構文文法に向けて―英語のbecause構文と日本語のカラ構文―
    金谷優
    JELS/25/pp.111-120, 2008-03
  • Metalinguistic Reason Constructions Revisited
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/27/pp.27-44, 2009-03
  • Analogy in Construction Grammar: The Case of Just Because of X Doesn't Mean Y
    Masaru Kanetani
    Tsukuba English Studies/29/pp.77-94, 2011-02
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Books
  • 比較・対照言語研究の新たな展開―三層モデルによる広がりと深まり
    金谷 優
    第3章　何を言い、何を言わないか―日英語の言いさし文と三層モデル―/開拓社/pp.83-115, 2022-11
  • Causation and Reasoning Constructions
    Kanetani Masaru
    John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019-03
  • 言語使用の三層モデルから見たbecause X構文
    Kanetani Masaru
    第5章：三層モデルでみえてくる言語の機能としくみ/開拓社/pp.90-111, 2017-11
  • Causation and Reasoning: A Construction Grammar Approach to Conjunctions of Reason
    金谷 優
    2008-03
Conference, etc.
  • Two Strategies for Compressing and Familiarizing Information: It-Sounds-Familiar-Because-Compressed Constructions
    KANETANI Masaru; CAPPELLE Bert
    The 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association/2024-09-04--2024-09-06
  • Constructions and Interpersonal Relationships in Japanese: How They Are Inseparable
    KANETANI Masaru
    Thee 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea/2024-08-21--2024-08-24
  • たし算、ひき算、掛け算の論理：日英対照モダリティ論と構文論
    金谷 優
    『認知意味論の原理』の4つの文法とその検証・発展/2024-03-16--2024-03-16
  • Ideophone, deideophonizationとmultimodal construct(ion)sの通言語的研究
    金谷 優
    第11回筑波英語学若手研究会/2023-09-05--2023-09-06
  • Speakers Move Unconsciously But Meaningfully: A Multimodal Constructional Analysis of Twin Forms in English
    Kanetani Masaru
    The 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference/2023-08-07--2023-08-11
  • Wow! It Wows Me: Deideophonization as Schematization and Constructionalization
    Kanetani Masaru
    The 12th International Conference on Construction Grammar/2023-05-19--2023-05-21
  • 英語の重複語の表出性について
    金谷 優
    第10回筑波若手研究会/2022-09-13--2022-09-13
  • Pragmatics Meets Multimodal Construction Grammar in Language Evolution: How Gestural Communication Decayed
    Kanetani Masaru
    “The Place of Pragmatics in the Evolution of Language” Workshop at Joint Conference on the Evolution of Language/2022-09-05--2022-09-08
  • How Are Multimodal Constructions Multimodal?: The Case of Japanese Psychomimes
    金谷 優
    11th International Conference on Construction Grammar/2021-08-18--2021-08-20
  • イデオフォンの日英類型論と構文分析
    金谷 優
    第8回筑波英語学若手研究会/2021-02-13--2021-02-13
  • Constructional Netowork as Linguistic Knowledge: The Case of Because Constructions
    金谷 優
    "General Properties of Langauge as Seen from Anomalous Consgtructions and Peripheral Phenomena" Symposium G in the 37th the English Linguistic Society of Japan/2019-11-10--2019-11-10
  • Toward a multimodal CxG analysis of Japanese mimetic expressions
    Kanetani Masaru
    the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea/2019-08-21--2019-08-25
  • So many ideophones in Japanese but less so in English: A three-tier model account
    Kanetani Masaru
    15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC15)/2019-08-06--2019-08-11
  • ideophoneの研究：進化言語学への応用へ向けて
    金谷 優
    第6回筑波英語学若手研究会
  • ideophoneの研究：進化言語学への応用へ向けて
    金谷 優
    第6回筑波英語学若手研究会/2018-09-03--2018-09-03
  • Innovation Because Deviation: Cases of Because Constructions
    Kanetani Masaru
    The Fifth International Society for the Lingusitics of English Conferenrence/2018-07-17--2018-07-20
  • The Because X Construction: Not Constructionalized Yet?
    Kanetani Masaru
    ELSJ 10th International Spring Forum/2017-04-22--2017-04-23
  • 言語使用の三層モデルからみたbecause構文
    金谷 優
    三層モデルでみえてくる言語の機能としくみ/2016-09-30--2016-09-30
  • Because X as an Intersubjective Construction
    Kanetani Masaru
    7th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English/2016-09-12--2016-09-12
  • Because X構文の主観性
    金谷 優
    第3回筑波英語学若手研究会/2015-09-10--2015-09-11
  • Private Expression within Public Expression: The Case of Because X
    Kanetani Masaru
    The 6h Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English/2015-08-19--2015-08-23
  • Becasueの新用法について
    金谷 優
    第2回筑波英語学若手研究会/2014-09-11--2014-09-12
  • Beacuse X: Its Metonymic and Schematic Characteristics
    Kanetani Masaru
    The 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar/2014-09-03--2014-09-06
  • On the Because X Construction
    Kanetani Masaru
    Colloquium on the Relation between Grammar and Pragmatics II/2014-07-10--2014-07-10
  • なぜ副詞節による名詞句の修飾が認可されるのか？
    金谷 優
    第１回筑波英語学若手研究会/2013-09-06--2013-09-07
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Teaching
2024-04 -- 2024-07English Semantics AUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Project Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12English Semantics BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Graduation Thesis (English Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Research Laboratory Practice (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Research Laboratory Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (2B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (2B)University of Tsukuba.
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Professional activities
2024-01 -- 2024-02The 13th International Conference on Construction GrammarReviewer
2024-01 -- 2024-0910th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics AssociationScientific Committee/ member
2020-04 -- 2021-03The English Linguistic Society of Japan事務局補佐
2018-12 -- 2019-08Scientific Committee, 15th Intenrational Cognitive Linguistics Conference
2019-04 -- 2020-03The United Associations of Language StudiesSecretary-General
2019-04 -- 2020-03The English Linguistic Society of Japan言語系学会連合事務局担当書記
University Management
2020-04 -- (current)人文学学位プログラムDAC担当教員
2021-04 -- (current)人文・文化学群教育課程委員会委員
2019-04 -- (current)人文学類教育課程委員会委員
Other activities
2022-07 -- 2022-07福島県立磐城桜が丘高等学校「半日総合大学」における出前授業「認知言語学入門：英語の好む表現と日本語の好む表現」（対象：高校2～3年生）
2019-10 -- 2019-10高大連携事業として、茨城県立水戸第一高等学校で「認知の仕方とネイティブらしい英語表現」という演題で出前講義を行った（対象：高校１～３年生）。
2018-10 -- 2018-10筑波大学附属坂戸高校1年生を対象にした模擬講義「英語学入門：認知言語学から見た日英語の違い」（於：筑波大学）
2017-07 -- 2017-07教員免許更新講習講師「英語学、英米文学、異文化理解の視点からの英語教育への提言」

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