K. Miyoshi's Brief CV

Japanese Version  Soka University

 

Brief CV of Kusujiro Miyoshi

Professor in English at
Soka Women's College, Tokyo, Japan
Website of the College (Japanese)

PhD (History of English Lexicography),
School of English, The University of Exeter, Devonshire, U.K.
Website of the University (The Russell Group ) (The Times Higher Education) *Reference1 Reference 2

 

 Career Summary

 
Continuous work in the field of English lexicography (historical studies) and the history of English since 1980, teaching English and its history at colleges and universities in Japan since 1983, having studied the history of English and English philology under Honorary Professor Haruo Kozu, and the history of English lexicography under Honorary Professor Reinhard R. K. Hartmann, graduating from the PhD program at School of English, the University of Exeter in May, 2005, obtaining the degree (PhD) with the thesis "Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples with Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries".


(Reference 1: Google Scholar) (Reference 2: Oxford Journals > The Year's Work in English Studies)

 

 Appointments

2005 (April) -
Professor in English at Soka Women's College in Tokyo, Japan.

1990 (April) - 2005 (March)
Associate Professor in English at Soka Women's College in Tokyo, Japan.

1986 (April) - 1990 (March)
Senior Lecturer in English at Okayama Women's Junior College in Okayama, Japan.

1983 (April) - 1986 (March)
Lecturer in English at Kinki University in Osaka, Japan.

 

 Professional Societies

(1)  EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography)  Reference
(2)  ISHLL (International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology) Reference 1/ Reference 2
(3)  DSNA (Dictionary Society of North America)  Reference

 

 List of Selected Works 1: Presentations

(21) 2023 (September): Italy
'Cawdrey's lexicographical practice: Its historical continuance and development'.
Presentation at the 13th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-13) (27-29, September, 2023) held at University of Salerno at Fisciano, organised by International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Home: Built for the Conference

(20) 2023 (June): Jamaica
'The sources of the "First Part" of Cockeram's Dictionarie (1623): Reconsidering his use of Thomas's, Cawdrey's and Bullokar's dictionaries'.
Presentation at the conference "The 7th International Symposium on the History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX7) (7-8, June, 2023) held at the University of West Indies hosted by the Jamaican Language Unit and the Richard and Jeannette Allsopp Centre for Caribbean Lexicography, which are research units of The University of the West Indies). Home, Programme.

(19) 2022 (June): France
'The Treatment of English High-frequency Verbs in the Promptorium Parvulorum (1440) '.
Presentation at the 12th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-12) (22-24, June, 2022) organised by the research groups TEMOS (UMR 9016) from the Université de Bretagne (Lorient) and Litt & Arts (5316) Université Grenoble Alpes, in collaboration with the International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Home: Built for the Conference > Insite Search

(18) 2021 (September): Greece
'John Pickering's Vocabulary (1816) reconsidered: America's earliest philological exploration of lexicography'.
Presentation at the congress "Lexicography for Inclusion" (The XIX EURALEX International Congress) (7-9, September, 2021) organized by SynMorPhoSe Lab of the Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace. Home: Built for the Congress > Insite Search / Home: EURALEX > Insite Search

(17) 2019 (June): Italy
'Mathews vs Craigie and Hulbert: Idiomatic verb phrases in historical dictionaries of Americanisms'.
Presentation at the 6th International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX6) (26-29, June, 2019) held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano del Garda, Brescia, Lombardia, hosted by Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Milan in association with the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography. Home > Program

(16) 2018 (June): Italy
'Pickering's influence on Craigie and Hulbert's Dictionary of American English (1936-1944)'.
Presentation at the 9th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-9) (20-22, June, 2018) held at Villa Durazzo, Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria, Genova, hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Genova. Home > Program

(15) 2017 (February): Switzerland
'John Pickering's reference materials for his Vocabulary (1816): Crossing the bounds of dictionaries'.
Presentation at the conference "The Fifth International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX5) (16-18, February, 2017) held at University of Zurich, Zurich. Home > Insite Search

(14) 2016 (September): Georgia
'Reconsidering the initial development of the dictionaries of Americanisms: Pickering's legacy in Bartlett's Dictionary (1849)'.
Presentation at the congress "Lexicology and Lexicography: Historiographical Approaches" (The XVII EURALEX International Congress) (6-10, September, 2016) organized by the Lexicographic Centre at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi. Home:Built for the Conference > Insite Search / Home: EURALEX > Insite Search

(13) 2015 (September): Italy
'Samuel Johnson's etymologies reconsidered: The final stage of etymological research before comparative philology'.
Presentation at the congress "Lexicology and Lexicography: Historiographical Approaches" (Colloquium 2015 Gargnano del Garda of the the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas) (17-19, September, 2015) held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano del Garda, organized by Professor Giovanni Iamartino at Universita degli Studi di Milano. Home > Insite Search

(12) 2015 (March): UK
'John Pickering's reference to dictionaries in his Vocabulary (1816): America's first philological exploration of lexicography'.
Presentation at The fourth international Symposium on Approaches to English Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (OX-LEX4) (25-27, March, 2015) held at Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxfordshire. Home > Insite Search

(11) 2014 (July): Spain
'Elisha Coles and the group of entries: His use of linking phrases and search for derivatives and their root forms'.
Presentation at the 7th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-7) (9-11, July, 2014) held at Instituto Univerisitario de Analisis y Aplicaciones Textuales, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas. Home > Insite Search

(10) 2013 (July): South Africa
'The conclusive dictionary in the first century of English lexicography: Elisha Coles's English Dictionary (1676)'.
Presentation at the 18th Annual International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX-18) (2-5, July, 2013) held at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), Port Elizabeth. Home > Insite Search

(9) 2012 (July): Germany
'The significance of the "Second Part" of Cockeram's Dictionary: Its arrangement of entries, treatment of synonyms and information on word-formation'.
Presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-6) (25-28, July, 2012) held at Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena. Home > Insite Search

(8) 2012 (March): Finland
'Bullokar's and Cockeram's interest in word formation: Treatment of derivatives in the earliest English dictionaries'.
Presentation at the Third international New Approaches in English Historical Lexis Symposium (Hel-Lex3) (7-10, March, 2012) held at Tvarminne Zoological Station. Organizer: the VARIENG research unit and the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Helsinki. Home > Insite Search

(7) 2011 (September): Russia
'The first systematic treatment of English vocabulary: Phillips's New World of English Words (1658)'.
Presentation at the Ninth International School of Lexicography (Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst century) (8-10, September, 2011) held at Ivanovo State University. Organizer: Ivanovo State University, organized by Professor Olga M. Karpova, Vice-Rector for Public Relations of Ivanovo State University, Chair of the English Language Department. Home > Insite Search

(6) 2010 (June): UK
'The "Second part" of Cockeram’s Dictionarie (1623): reconsidering its source materials'.
Presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-5) (16-18, June, 2010) held at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire. Home > Insite Search Reference

(5) 2009 (May): USA
'Historical significance of Cockeram's treatment of high frequency verbs'.
Presentation at the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) XVII Biennial Meeting (27-30, May, 2009) held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Home> the Conference

(4) 2008 (June): Canada
'Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall (1604) reconsidered: its driving force for early English lexicography'.
Presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-4) (19-21, June, 2008) held in Edmonton, organized by Professor John Considine at University of Alberta.

(3) 2007 (September): Russia
'Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689), a turning point in the history of the general English dictionary'.
Presentation at the Seventh International School of Lexicography (Modern Lexicography: Global Problems and National Solutions) (12-14, September, 2007) held at Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo. Organizer: Ivanovo State University, organized by Professor Olga M. Karpova, Vice-Rector for Public Relations of Ivanovo State University, Chair of the English Language Department.

(2) 2006 (May): Italy
'Thornton's American Glossary reconsidered'.
Presentation at the congress Lessicologia e Lessicografia delle Lingue Europee (Lexicology and Lexicography of European Languages) (25-27, May, 2006) held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano del Garda. Organizer: Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere Comparate, Universita degli Studi di Milano, represented by Professor Giovanni Iamartino. Reference

(1) 1992 (August): Finland
'J.K.'s dictionary (1702) reconsidered'.
Presentation at the Fifth EURALEX Congress (4-9, August, 1992) held at University of Tampere, Finland. Organizer: Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere, represented by Professors Professors Hannu Tommola and Krista Varantola. Home > Insite Search

 

 List of Selected Works 2: Publications

(19) 2021 (December): Germany (paper)
'Pickering's influence on Craigie and Hulbert's Dictionary of American English (1936-1944)' in Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography, vol. 37, issue 1 (Tubingen: Walter de Gruyter), 249-259. The Journal > My Paper (Google Books)

(18) 2020 (November): Greece (paper)
'John Pickering's Vocabulary (1816) reconsidered: America's earliest philological exploration of lexicography' in Lexicography for Inclusion (The Proceedings of the congress EURALEX XIX), Vol. 1, pp. 315-320. EURALEX XIX Official Website > Proceedings of EURALEX XIX > My Paper (Google Books).

(17) 2017 (September): Germany (paper)
'Elisha Coles and the group of entries: His use of linking phrases and search for derivatives and their root forms' in Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography, vol. 32, issue 1 (Tubingen: Walter de Gruyter), 3-16. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(16) 2017 (April): UK (book)
The First Century of English Monolingual Lexicography. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(15) 2016 (September): Georgia (paper)
'Reconsidering the initial development of the dictionaries of Americanisms: Pickering's legacy in Bartlett's Dictionary (1849)' in Margalitadze, Tinatin and Meladze, George (eds), Proceedings of the XVII EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity (2016), 597-607. Home: Built for the Conference > Insite Search / Home: EURALEX > Insite Search (Google Books)

(14) 2014 (June): Germany (paper)
'The significance of the "Second Part" of Cockeram's Dictionarie (1623): Its arrangement of entries, treatment of synonyms and information on word-formation' in Bock, Bettina and Kozianka, Maria (eds), Weiland Worter-Welten: Atken der 6. Internationalen Konferenz zur Historischen Lexikographie und Lexikologie (Jena, 25. - 27. Juli 2012) / Whilom Worlds of Words: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (Jena, 25-27 July 2012) (Shriftenreihe, Philologia: Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse, Band 192), Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 95-104. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(13) 2013 (May): USA (paper)
'Bullokar's and Cockeram's interest in word formation: Treatment of derivatives in the earliest English dictionaries' in McConchie, R. W., et. al. (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on New Approach in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 3). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 120-127. Home > Insite Search: Proceedings Insite Search: the Publication (Google Books)

(12) 2013 (February): UK (paper)
'The first systematic treatment of English vocabulary: Phillips's New World of English Words' in Karpova, Olga M. and Kartashkova, Faina I. (eds.), Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 53-66. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(11) 2012 (December): Germany (paper)
'The making of Elisha Coles's “linked entries”: His utilization of English dictionaries from 1604 to 1658' in Lexicographica: International Annual for Lexicography, vol. 28, issue 1 (Tubingen: Walter de Gruyter), 385-398. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(10) 2012 (July): UK and USA (paper)
'The Historical Significance of Cockeram's Treatment of Verbs of High Frequency' in Considine, John (ed.), Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers Volume 4: The Seventeenth Century. Ashgate Publishing Company: Surrey (England) and Burlington (USA), 205-215. Home > Insite Search Ashgate has joined Routledge. (Google Books)

(9) 2012 (July): Israel (book review)
'Olga Karpova. English Author Dictionaries (the XVIth -- the XXIst cc.) ' in Kernerman Dictionary News, No. 20, 29-34. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(8) 2011 (September): Russia (abstract of presentation)
'The first systematic treatment of English vocabulary: Phillips's New World of English Words (1658)' (digest) in Карпова, О.М. (Olga M. Karpova) (ed.), Лексикографические ракурсы: традиции и вызовы XXI века (Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst century). Ivanovo: Ивановский государственный университет (Ivanovo State University) (ISBN 978-5-7807-0912-1), 31-34. (Google Books)

(7) 2010 (December): UK (paper)
'The "Second Part" of Cockeram's Dictionarie (1623): reconsidering its source materials' in "Oxford University Research Archive" (ORA). Home: bodleian.ox.ac.uk / Home: ora.ox.ac.uk > Insite Search: Cover Page Insite Search: the Publication (Google Books)

(6) 2010 (December): Italy (paper)
'Thornton's American Glossary (1604) reconsidered', in Pinnavaia, Laura and Brownlees, Nicholas (eds.). Insights into English and Germanic Lexicology and Lexicography: Past and Present Perspectives, Monza-Italy: Polimetrica, 303-318. (Google Books)

(5) 2010 (December): UK (paper)
'Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall (1604) reconsidered: its driving force for early English lexicography' in Considine, John (ed.), Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 14-22. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(4) 2008 (June): Israel (paper)
'Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689), a turning point in the history of the general English dictionary'(full text) in Kernerman Dictionary News, Number 16, 4-8. Home Currently (as of January, 2017), click "News" and choose the "Number 16, July 2008". (Google Books)

(3) 2007 (September) (Мийоши, Кусуджиро): Russia (abstract of presentation)
'Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689), a turning point in the history of the general English dictionary' (digest) in Карпова, О.М. (Olga M. Karpova) and Е.А. Шапошникова (Katerina A. Shaposhnikova) (eds), Современная лексикография: глобальные проблемы и национальные решения (Modern Lexicography: Global Problems and National Solutions), Ivanovo: Ивановский государственный университет (Ivanovo State University) (ISBN 5-7807-0652-2). Ivanovo: Ivanovo State University, 223-225. (Google Books)

(2) 2007 (March): Germany (book: PhD thesis)
Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples with Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries(Lexicographica. Series Maior 132). Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag/Walter de Gruyter.  Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

(1) 1992 (August): Finland (paper)
'J. K.'s Dictionary (1702) reconsidered', in Tommola, Hannu et. al. (eds) EURALEX '92 Proceedings I-II: Papers Submitted to the 5th EURALEX International Congress on Lexicography in Tampere, Finland, Part II (Studia Translatologica, Publications of the Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, ser. A, vol. 2) , Tampere: Tampereen Yliopisto, 601-606. Home > Insite Search (Google Books)

 

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