The World of Coronaspeak

John C. Maher is a British-Irish linguist based in Tokyo. He is an emeritus professor of linguistics teaching at Temple University Japan (TUJ), the International Christian University, Japan and the University of Tokyo. He was formerly a lecturer of East Asian studies at the University of Edinburgh, and a senior academic member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He holds degrees in philosophy and linguistics from the Universities of London, Michigan and Edinburgh and has published over 100 articles in journals such as the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Translation, Applied Linguistics, and Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He is the author of several books on linguistics, including Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction; Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect; and Language Communities in Japan. He was an interpreter for the Ainu delegation at the United Nations’ Working Committee on Indigenous Peoples, and is a founding member of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistics.