User:MalignantMouse/Elin McCready
Elin McCready | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Asher |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Semantics, Pragmatics |
| Website | Personal website |
Elin McCready is a linguist and professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. She studies semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, focusing in particular on phenomena like evidentials, honorifics, and slurs. She is also co-director of Aoyama Gakuin University's Singularity Research Institute.[1][2]
Gender Recognition in Japan
After transitioning in the U.S., 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.[3][4] A documentary, It's Just Our Family, has been produced about the couple's struggles with this treatment.[5]
Selected Publications
- McCready, Elin; Ogata, Norry (April 2007). "Evidentiality, modality and probability". Linguistics and Philosophy. 30 (2): 147–206. doi:10.1007/s10988-007-9017-7.
- McCready, Elin (29 July 2010). "Varieties of conventional implicature". Semantics and Pragmatics. 3 (8). doi:10.3765/sp.3.8.
References
- ^ "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning: About the Author". Oxford University Press. 22 October 2019.
- ^ "研究所概要 | Aoyama Gakuin University Singularity Institute". agusi.iro.aoyama.ac.jp. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "After gender change, a bureaucratic brick wall in Japan". France 24. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Why Won't Japan Allow This Trans Woman's Marriage? Metropolis Japan". Metropolis Japan. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ "Event Report: Evolving Love". WomEnpowered International. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2022.