Carey Scott BENOM

Department of Foreign Language StudiesAssociate Professor

Research Keyword

  • Idiomatic Creativity
  • Language and Taboo
  • Language and Gender
  • Language and Humor
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Cognitive Sociolinguistics

Field of study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics

Career

  • Apr. 2024 - Present
    Seinan Gakuin University, Department of Literature Division of Foreign Languages
  • Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024
    Kyushu University, Dept of English
  • Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2023
    Nagasaki University, Language Education and Research Center, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018
    Kyushu University, English Language and Literature, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2017
    Kyushu University, English Language and Literature, Visiting Researcher
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016
    Kyushu University, English Language and Literature, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2014
    Kyushu University, Graduate School of Humanities, Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2010
    Kyushu University, English Language and Literature, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Jun. 2007 - Mar. 2008
    University of Oregon, Linguistics Department, Adjunct Professor

Educational Background

  • 2003 - 2007, University of Oregon, Linguistics, PhD
  • 1999 - 2003, University of Oregon, Linguistics, MA
  • 1988 - 1993, University of California, Berkeley, Religious Studies, BA

Papers

  • 'Keepwords', the Limits of Creativity, and the Notion of the "Core" of an Idiom
    Carey Benom; Young-Min Oh
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Lead, 30, 223-237, Sep. 2023, Reviewed
  • Investigating Japanese EFL University Students' Needs, Motivations and Perceptions of the New EAP Program
    Mikako Nishikawa; Carey Benom; David Cupchak; Pino Cutrone; William Collins; Brien Datzman; Akira Hiroe; May Kyaw Oo; Scott Lucas; Kazuhiko Moji; Toshiaki Nishihara; Sean Albert Sullivan; Akihide Tada; Shin-ichi Tanigawa; Tianqi Zhang
    多文化社会研究紀要, 9, 337-361, Mar. 2023, Reviewed
  • Contraction as Idiomatic Variation: A Corpus-Based Study of Korean, Japanese, and English
    Young-Min Oh; Carey Benom
    Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 28, Apr. 2022, Reviewed
  • Husbands and wives in English and Japanese: A cognitive, corpus-based semantic and sociopragmatic analysis
    Carey Benom
    Journal of Center for Language Studies Nagasaki University, 9, 45-72, Mar. 2021, Reviewed
  • What's so Far about The Far Side? Fatal Flaws, False Analogies and Quirky Logic in the Conceptual Blends of Gary Larson
    Carey Benom
    Proceedings of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2020, 55-66, 2020, Reviewed
  • Genitals in Japanese: eroticism, cuteness, and sexist conceptual metaphor
    Carey Benom
    Proceedings of the 26th Japanese Korean Linguistic Conference., 26, 2020, Reviewed
  • The correctness fallacy and lexical semantics
    Carey Benom
    Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics, 35, p.137-172, 2015, Reviewed
  • Polysemy and English THROUGH
    Carey Benom
    Kyudai Eibungaku, 112, p. 1-112, 2015, Reviewed
  • English through and the gradience of force dynamics
    Carey Benom
    International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, 5(1), p.29-51, 2014, Reviewed
  • The semantics of some verbs of separation in Japanese
    Carey Benom
    Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics, 33, p.27-52, 2012, Reviewed
  • On the (im)possibility of translation
    Carey Benom
    Kyudai Eibungaku, 52, p.77-97, 2010, Reviewed
  • The IN/ON continuum and three Japanese verbs
    Carey Benom
    Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics, 31, p.89-108, 2010, Reviewed
  • Cross-linguistic support for polysemy analyses: The case of English through and three Japanese verbs (tooru, nukeru, and toorinukeru)
    Carey Benom
    Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 10, p.34-38, 2009, Not reviewed
  • An Empirical Study of English through: Lexical Semantics, Polysemy, and the Correctness Fallacy
    Carey Benom
    PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2007, Reviewed
  • On the Psychological and Linguistic Reality of Semantic Networks: A Cognitive and Semantic Analysis of English through including a Crosslinguistic Study of Japanese tooru, nukeru, and toorinukeru
    Carey Benom
    MA Thesis, University of Oregon, 2003, Reviewed

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • Lexical Substitution in English and Japanese HEART Idioms
    Carey Benom
    42nd meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Association, Mar. 2021
  • Don’t Count your Commodities Investments before they Hatch: Idiomatic Creativity, Referential Specification, and the Comprehensibility of “Impossible” Collocations
    Carey Benom; Young-Min Oh
    56th Linguistics Colloquium “Multilingualism, Translation and Cognition”, Nov. 2020
  • Contraction as Idiomatic Variation: A Corpus-based Study of Korean, Japanese, and English
    Oh, Young-Min; Carey Benom
    28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Sep. 2020
  • What’s so Far about the Far Side? Fatal Flaws, False Analogies and Quirky Logic in the Conceptual Blends of Gary Larson
    Carey Benom
    Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Aug. 2019
  • Sexy Meets Sexist: Genitals in Japanese and the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor
    Carey Benom
    44th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistics Society, Jul. 2019
  • Genitals in Japanese: Eroticism, Cuteness, and Sexist Conceptual Metaphor
    Carey Benom
    26th Japanese / Korean Linguistics Conference. UCLA., Nov. 2018
  • IDiOM, Idioms, Creativity, and the Myth of the Representative Speaker
    Carey Benom
    Conference on Language, Society, and Culture in Kyushu 2017, Dec. 2017, Invited
  • Taboo and Humor: A Corpus-based Approach
    Carey Benom
    14th meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia., Jul. 2017
  • Taboo, the hippies, and political correctness: Cultural change driving language change
    Carey Benom
    Conference on Language, Society, and Culture in Kyushu, 2016, Nov. 2016, Invited
  • The Use of Taboo Terms in Standup Comedy: a corpus-based analysis
    Carey Benom
    TaCo 2016: Taboo humo(u)r. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2016
  • Husbands and wives in English and Japanese: A corpus-based, cognitive, constructionist approach to the lexical semantics and sociopragmatics of some translational equivalents
    Carey Benom
    Symposium on Corpora and Construction Grammar, at the 69th meeting of the Kyushu Branch of the English Research Society in Japan, Oct. 2016
  • Husbands and wives in English and Japanese: A cognitive, corpus-based approach to the lexical semantics and sociopragmatics of some translational equivalents
    Carey Benom
    17th meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Meiji University, Nakano Campus, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2016, Invited
  • Construction Grammar and Syntactic Relations
    Carey Benom
    Data-driven Linguistic Analysis Working Group. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan., Jun. 2016
  • English taboo terms: Cultural change driving language change
    Carey Benom
    3rd Language Variation and Change Research Forum, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan., May 2016
  • The corpus of standup comedy
    Carey Benom
    34th meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Society. Seinan University, Fukuoka, Japan., Mar. 2016
  • The corpus of standup comedy
    Carey Benom
    6th Humor Research Conference 2016: Empirical Approaches to Humor. Texas A&M University-Commerce at Rockwall, Texas, USA., Feb. 2016
  • Crosslinguistic variation and the translatability of humor: The Bug Joke
    Carey Benom
    2nd Language Variation and Change Research Forum, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 2015
  • False beliefs about falsity and erroneous conceptual blending in Mitch Hedberg’s FAKE jokes
    Carey Benom
    5th Humor Research Conference 2015: Humor and Pedagogy. Texas A&M University-Commerce in Dallas, Texas, USA., Feb. 2015
  • Husbands and wives in English and Japanese
    Carey Benom
    2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (APMRA), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA., Oct. 2014
  • False beliefs about falsity, erroneous conceptual mapping, and Mitch Hedberg’s fake jokes
    Carey Benom
    LACUS 2014, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada., Aug. 2014
  • Blending and Mitch Hedberg’s fake jokes
    Carey Benom
    30th meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Society, Seinan University, Fukuoka, Japan., Mar. 2014
  • What Japanese verbs of separation show us about variation, verbalization and construal, and the idea of a representative speaker
    Carey Benom
    1st Language Variation and Change Research Forum, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan., Mar. 2014
  • Cold stares and embarrassed laughs: the structure of word meaning and why some jokes don’t translate.
    Carey Benom
    4th Humor Research Conference 2014: Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Humor. Texas A&M University-Commerce at Rockwall, Texas, USA., Feb. 2014
  • The Structure of Japanese, English, and Thai
    Carey Benom
    Presentation for visiting students from Mahidol University, Thailand. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan., Jun. 2013
  • Force dynamics: continuous or discrete?
    Carey Benom
    12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada., Jun. 2013
  • Japanese verbs of separation and the variance of meaning
    Carey Benom
    Meaning, Context and Cognition (MCC) 2012. University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland., Mar. 2012
  • Japanese verbs of separation and the scale of detachability
    Carey Benom
    Workshop on East Asian Languages (WEAL). University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA., Feb. 2012
  • The conceptual theory of metaphor and Japanese
    Carey Benom
    Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan., Sep. 2011
  • On the semantics of some verbs of separation in Japanese
    Carey Benom
    25th meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Society, Seinan University, Fukuoka, Japan., Sep. 2011
  • Semantics outside semantic maps
    Carey Benom
    8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. Beihang University, Beijing, China., Nov. 2010
  • Polysemy, ‘unspecification’, and good-enough representations
    Carey Benom
    11th conference of Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. University of California, San Diego, USA., Sep. 2010
  • Where have all the data gone? Semantic maps and the geometry of events
    Carey Benom
    Conference on Event, Events, and Subevents, University of Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France., Sep. 2009, Invited
  • The case of the missing data: the semantic map of through in English and Japanese.
    Carey Benom
    21st meeting of the Fukuoka Cognitive Linguistics Society, Seinan University, Fukuoka, Japan., Sep. 2009
  • Cross-linguistic support for polysemy analyses: the case of English through and three Japanese verbs
    Carey Benom
    9th Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan., Sep. 2008
  • ‘Unspecification’ and polysemy
    Carey Benom
    Language, Cognition, and Communication (LCC) Conference, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK., Aug. 2008
  • A contrastive analysis of the semantic map of through
    Carey Benom
    5th Annual International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium., Jul. 2008
  • Lexical semantics, polysemy, and the correctness fallacy
    Carey Benom
    University of Oregon Department of Linguistics colloquium., Apr. 2007
  • Classifiers in Assamese
    Carey Benom
    University of Oregon Department of Linguistics colloquium., Apr. 2006
  • Methodology of lexical semantic analysis: syntactic, psycholinguistic, and cross-linguistic evidence for the structure of English through
    Carey Benom
    Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., May 2003
  • Lexical semantics of English through
    Carey Benom
    University of Oregon Department of Linguistics colloquium, Mar. 2003

Courses

  • Cognitive Linguistics
    Oct. 2020 - Present
    Nagasaki University
  • Academic Writing I and II
    Apr. 2020 - Present
    Nagasaki University
  • Social Linguistics and Pragmatics
    Kyushu University
  • Linguistic Construal
    Kyushu University
  • Cognitive Linguistics
    Kyushu University
  • Language and Humor
    Kyushu University
  • Language and Taboo
    Kyushu University
  • Functional English Grammar
    Kyushu University, University of Oregon
  • English Communication
    Kyushu University, Nagasaki University
  • Japanese Linguistics 4 - The Structure of Japanese
    Kyushu University
  • Construction Grammar I, II, III, IV
    Kyushu University
  • Functional Linguistics I, II
    Kyushu University
  • Cognitive Sociolinguistics I, II
    Kyushu University
  • Japanese Linguistics 5 - Japanese Language and Gender
    Kyushu University