Richardson, P., & Mueller, C. M. (2026). Blind beholding: Schemas, metaphor, and blending in descriptions of seemingly opposite religious experiences. Metaphor and the Social World. (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Silvestre Lopez, A. J. (2026). Between the subject and the self: Force dynamics and the divided-person metaphor in acceptance and commitment therapy. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2025). L2 learners’ beliefs regarding their acquisition of English prepositions. Korean TESOL Journal, 21(1), 107-119. (link)
Mueller, C. M., Richardson, P., & Pihlaja, S. (2024). A mental spaces analysis of religious identity discourse. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 22(2), 541-563. https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00159.mue (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Nagashima, M. (2023). Paths to the Buddhist priesthood: A qualitative study of Kōyasan priests. Social Compass, 70(2), 263-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686231162532 (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Richardson, P. (2022). Talking about oneself: Effects of personalized prompts on L2 learners' speech. Journal of Second Language Studies, 5(2), 344-363. https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.21023.mue (link)
Richardson, P., & Mueller, C. M. (2022). Contested paths: Analyzing unfolding metaphor usage in a debate between Dawkins and Lennox. Metaphor and the Social World, 12(1), 138-158. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.20004.ric (link)
Mueller, C. M., Richardson, P., Kheovichai, B., Nagashima, M. (2022). A corpus-based comparison of modality in evangelical Christian and Zen Buddhist books. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 18, Article 5. (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Tsushima, Y. (2021). Acquisition of English article uses by Japanese EFL learners. The Language Teacher, 45(4), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTTLT45.4 (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Walzem, A. (2020). Is Willingness to Communicate associated with more positive online chat experiences? JALT Journal, 42(2), 103-120. (link)
Richardson, P., & Mueller, C. M. (2019). Moving and being still: Exploring source domain reversal and force in explanations of enlightenment. Language and Cognition, 11(2), 310-339. (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Tsushima, Y. (2019). Effectiveness of force dynamic explanations of English causative verbs and the role of imagery. Cognitive Linguistics, 30(3), 439-466. (link)
Dolgova, N., & Mueller, C. M. (2019). How useful are corpus tools for error correction? Insights from learner data. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 39, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.03.007 (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2019). Which English sounds are difficult? Japanese EFL learners' intuitions versus their performance. The Language Teacher, 43(2), 3-7. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2018). Initial acquisition of tense-aspect morphology in an artificial language. Second Language Research, 34(4), 517-538. doi:10.1177/026765837750219 (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2018). An experimental investigation of HAM, a new mnemonic technique for learning L2 homonyms and homophones. Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 7(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.7820/vli.v07.2.Mueller (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Kraus, W. A. (2018). The effects of personalized prompts on Japanese EFL students' written essays. OnCUE Journal, 11(1), 25-50. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2017). A comparison of introductions in Japanese-authored Japanese articles, Japanese-authored English articles, and articles by English native speakers. JALT Journal, 39(1), 29-56. (link)
Mueller, C. M., & Jacobsen, N. (2016). A comparison of the effectiveness of EFL students' use of dictionaries and an online corpus for the enhancement of revision skills. ReCALL, 28(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344015000142 (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2011). English learners' knowledge of prepositions: Collocational knowledge or knowledge based on meaning. System, 39(4), 480-490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2011.10.012 (link)
Tyler, A., Mueller, C. M., & Ho, V. (2011). Applying Cognitive Linguistics to learning the semantics of English to, for, and at: An experimental investigation. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8, 122-140. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2010). Effects of explicit instruction on incidental noticing of metaphorical word sequences during a subsequent reading task. IJES, 10(1), 81-101. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2010/1/113991 (link)
Tyler, A., Mueller, C. M., & Ho, V. (2010). Applying cognitive linguistics to instructed L2 learning: The English modals. AILA Review, 23(1), 30-49. https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.23.03tyl (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2004). Translating far-Eastern philosophical texts: Multiple challenges. Synthesis Philosophica, 19(1), 205-217.
Mueller, C. M. (2003). Tracing the steps of the successful multilingual: A synopsis. Journal for Distinguished Language Studies, 1(1), 65-74. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (1992). Songch'ol's radical subitism. Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 5, 105-126. (link)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Mueller, C. M., & Richardson, P. (2026). Religious discourse. In Nesi, H., & Milin, P. (Eds.) International encyclopedia of language and linguistics (3rd ed., pp. 447-451). Elsevier. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2026). A cognitive linguistic approach to teaching L2 learners the noncentral senses of English prepositions. In B. White & N. Dolgova (Eds.), Applying cognitive linguistics in the English language classroom (pp. 101-115). Bloomsbury. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2023). Symbols and icons in Buddhist worship. In S. Pihlaja & H. Ringrow (Eds.), Routledge handbook of language and religion (pp. 96-108). Routledge. (link)
ACADEMIC ARTICLES (NON-PEER-REVIEWED)
Mueller, C. M. (2026). Development of an online lesson targeting noncentral prepositional senses. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, 63, 39-45.
Mueller, C. M. (2022). Second language acquisition of English prepositions. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, 59, 17-44. Republished in the 55th issue of Collected Articles on English Language by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.ronsetsu.co.jp/). (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2021). Technique repetition and creative metaphor. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, 58, 63-85. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2020). Effectiveness of learning single words versus words in collocations and the role of imageability. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, No. 57, pp. 55-87. Republished in the 53rd issue of Collected Articles on English Language by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.ronsetsu.co.jp/). (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2019). A framework for discouraging plagiarism in higher education. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, No. 56, 1-25. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2018). Graduate students’ beliefs about learning a second language. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, No. 55, 39-67. Republished in the 52nd issue of Collected Articles on English Language by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.ronsetsu.co.jp/). (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2017). Maturational age effects on the status and role of formulaic sequences in first and second language learning. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, No. 54. 1-55. (link)
Mueller, C. M. (2016). A semantic account of the English preposition FOR based on a Cognitive Linguistics framework. The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women's University, No. 53, 1-24. Republished in 2018 in the 50th issue of Collected Articles on English Language, pp. 602-613 by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan (http://www.ronsetsu.co.jp/).(link)
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Mueller, C. M. (2016). The semi-collaborative research paper: Development of a writing assignment for a graduate EAP course. In G. N. Lovtsevich (Ed.), Connecting professionally on ELT in Asia: Crossing the bridge to excellence. 14th AsiaTEFL@11th FEELTA International Conference on Language Teaching, Vladivostok, June 30--July 02, 2016 Conference Proceedings (pp. 99-104). Vladivostok, Russia: Far East Public Service Organization of English Language Teachers.
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Mueller, C. M. (2004). Tracing the steps of the successful multilingual: A synopsis (pp. 93-101). In B. L. Leaver, & B. Shekhtman (Eds.), Teaching and learning to near-native levels of language proficiency: Proceedings of the spring and fall 2003 conferences of the coalition of distinguished language centers (pp. 93-101). MSI Press. [Republication of 2003 article that appeared in Journal for Distinguished Language Studies].
BOOK REVIEWS
Mueller, C. M. (2024). Review of Usage in Second Language Acquisition: Critical Reflections and Future Directions. Korea TESOL Journal, 20(2), 103-107. (link)