Multiple Perspectives on English Philology and History of Linguistics

Contents: Shoichi Watanabe: Curriculum Vitae - Hiroyuki Eto: Introduction - Tetsuji Oda: Shoichi Watanabe: The Philologue and Bibliophile - Kenichi Tamoto: Palaeographical Facts and Conjectures about the Rushworth Gospels (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 19) - Tetsuji Oda: The Sound Symbolism of sc- in Old English Heroic Poetry - Seiji Shinkawa: Unhistorical Gender Assignment in La amon's Brut: Innovative Attributive Morphology as a Case Marker - Naotoshi Furuta: The Devaluation of Germanic Heroic Tradition in the Old English Poem Andreas - Kazutomo Karasawa: The Negative Conceptions of OE dream and their Origin - Yuki Shimonaga: The Structure and the Thematic Unity of The Dream of the Rood - Kazunori Kumada: Seventeenth-Century Classification of Consonants - Makoto Ikeda: A Contrastive Evaluation of the Pronunciation Components in New English File and New Headway - Kohei Nagase: The Absolute Value of Words in Etymology - Masataka Miyawaki: Ronald Langacker and James Harris: A Case Study of the History of Cognitive Linguistics - Kazuyuki Shimotani: 'Taste is Taste': Shifts in the Entailments of the Metaphorical Concept of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics - Hiroyuki Eto: Amerikanischer Strukturalismus und deutsche inhaltbezogene Sprachwissenschaft.

Tetsuji Oda is associate professor at Tokyo University of Science where he teaches English as a foreign language and the history of English, and was associate researcher at Westfälische Wilhems-Universität Münster (2009-2010). His principal area of research is sound symbolism used in Old English alliterative poetry. After studying at the University of London (Mphil) he received his PhD from Sophia University in 2000.
Hiroyuki Eto is associate professor of English and linguistics at Tohoku University. His principal research interests lie in the areas of the intellectual history of linguistics, philosophy of language, and English-language teaching as liberal arts education. He received his PhD in Germanic philology from Georgetown University in 2000 and his DLitt in English philology from Sophia University in 2002.