Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History

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Clarendon Press, 20 cze 1996 - 250
The Japanese are often characterized as exclusive and ethnocentric, yet a close examination of their linguistic and cultural history reveals a very different picture: although theirs is essentially a monolingual speech community they emerge as a people who have been significantly influenced by other languages and cultures for at least 2000 years. In this primarily sociolinguistic study Professor Loveday takes an eclectic approach, drawing on insights from other subfields of linguistics such as comparative and historical linguistics and stylistics, and from a number of other disciplines - cultural anthropology, social psychology and semiotics. Focusing in particular on the influence of Chinese and English on Japanese, and on how elements from these languages are modified when they are incorporated into Japanese, Professor Loveday offers a general model for understanding language contact behaviour across time and space. The study will be of value to those in search of cross-cultural universals in language contact behaviour, as well as to those with a particular interest in the Japanese case.
 

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Introduction
1
Tables
8
Transcription
10
Japanese Contact with Asian Languages
26
Figures
33
26
43
The Contexts of Contemporary Contact
79
Intellectual Terms
87
1ab Examples of mixed script
122
3ac Texts of songs by Hikaru Genji 1301
132
The Social Reception of Contact with English Now
157
The Functions of Language Contact in Japan Today
189
Conclusions
212
The Questionnaire English translation
218
The Historical Division between Japanese
224
Index
237

Japanizing and Westernizing Patterns
115

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