Elin McCready | |
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Born | 1973or1974(age 50–51) [1] |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Doctoral advisor | Nicholas Asher |
Academic work | |
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. [2] [3]
McCready earned a PhD at the University of Texas-Austin in 2005,with a dissertation entitled,"The dynamics of particles." [4]
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. [5] 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." [6]
McCready is a trans woman. [7] 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. [7] [8] As a result,McCready and her wife have filed suit against the Japanese government. [1] [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]
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