Elin McCready explained

Elin McCready
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral Advisor:Nicholas Asher
Discipline:Linguistics
Sub Discipline:Semantics, Pragmatics
Website:Personal website

Elin McCready is an American linguist and professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. She researches semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on such phenomena as evidentials, honorifics, and slurs. She is also co-director of Aoyama Gakuin University's Singularity Research Institute.[1] [2]

Academic career

McCready earned a PhD at the University of Texas-Austin in 2005, with a dissertation entitled, "The dynamics of particles."[3]

McCready has written widely cited articles published in prestigious journals including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics and Philosophy, Semantics and Pragmatics, and Journal of Cognitive Science.[4] She has written two books, Reliability in Pragmatics, and The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning, and has (co-)edited numerous volumes, including Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond.

In 2021, she received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, which supports researchers who "are expected to produce cutting-edge activities."[5]

Gender recognition in Japan

McCready is a trans woman. After transitioning in the US, McCready filed to update her permanent residence card in Japan, where she lives with her wife and three children. The Japanese government refused to recognize her transition, as doing so would require them to effectively recognize same-sex marriage (which Japan currently does not) or to unilaterally annul the couple's marriage.[6] [7] As a result, McCready and her wife have filed suit against the Japanese government.[8] [9] A documentary, It's Just Our Family, has been produced about the couple's struggles with this treatment.[10]

In 2019 McCready organised a trans inclusive club night, called WAIFU, after being refused entry to an existing women's club night.[11]

Selected publications

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning: About the Author . Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics . Oxford University Press . 22 October 2019. 978-0-19-882137-3 .
  2. Web site: 研究所概要 Aoyama Gakuin University Singularity Institute . agusi.iro.aoyama.ac.jp . 11 March 2022.
  3. The dynamics of particles . 2005 . Thesis . E. . McCready.
  4. Web site: Elin McCready . scholar.google.com.
  5. Web site: Professor Elin McCready (College of Literature, Department of English) received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, Germany). Aoyama Gakuin University . 2022-03-13 . ja.
  6. Web site: After gender change, a bureaucratic brick wall in Japan . France 24 . 11 March 2022 . en . 19 February 2019.
  7. Web site: Why Won't Japan Allow This Trans Woman's Marriage? Metropolis Japan . Metropolis Japan . 11 March 2022 . 18 June 2021.
  8. Web site: Osumi . Magdalena . Couple sues Japanese government for not recognizing gender transition . The Japan Times . 11 March 2022 . 21 June 2021.
  9. News: Transgender American and her wife sue over gender registry The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis . 2022-03-13 . The Asahi Shimbun . en.
  10. Web site: Event Report: Evolving Love . WomEnpowered International . 11 March 2022 . en . 18 March 2021.
  11. Web site: Trans woman refused entry to Tokyo's biggest women-only night. May 31, 2019.

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