A Dictionary Of Japanese Loanwords

Author : Toshie M. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313370045

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A Dictionary of Japanese Loanwords by Toshie M. Evans Pdf

Recent studies report that Japanese is the second most productive source of new loanwords to English. Such studies indicate that English-speaking countries are paying more attention to Japan than ever before. This dictionary lists and defines hundreds of terms borrowed from Japanese that are now used in English-language publications. Entries provide variant spellings, pronunciation, etymological information, definitions, and illustrative quotations. These quotations were collected from books, newspapers, magazines, novels, texts, advertisements, and databases published or distributed in the United States between 1964 and 1995. When countries engage in a significant amount of commercial or cultural contact, they frequently borrow words from each other's language. These loanwords are assimilated to varying degrees and show how one country gains exposure to another country's culture. Recent studies report that Japanese is the second most productive source of new loanwords to English, showing that English-speaking countries are paying more attention to Japan than ever before. This dictionary includes entries for hundreds of Japanese terms now used in English-language publications. Included are terms from art and architecture, medicine and the sciences, business and education, philosophy and religion, and numerous other fields. Entries provide definitions, pronunciations, variant spellings, etymological histories, and illustrative quotations. These quotations were collected from books, newspapers, magazines, novels, texts, advertisements, and databases, all of which were published or distributed in the United States between 1964 and 1995. While the volume is a valuable guide to the meaning and assimilation of particular loanwords, it is also a fascinating chronicle of how certain elements of Japanese culture have strongly influenced American civilization.

Author : 三浦昭
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035834451

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English Loanwords in Japanese by 三浦昭 Pdf

Author : Bachtiar Harahap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : UOM:39015063141686

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Dictionary of Japanese loan-words by Bachtiar Harahap Pdf

Author : Akira Miura
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781462902965

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English Loanwords in Japanese by Akira Miura Pdf

Toriningu-pantsu are not training pants for babies who have not yet been toilet-trained. Toreningu-pantsu are sweat pants. When you jump into a swimming pool you will get wet, but not necessarily uetto. Volleyball, which was invented in the United States, is known as bareboru in Japan, but the tennis volley was the English gentleman's pride before it was America's . A tennis volley is therefore pronounced in British style, bore, not as American bare. Oru means "all" but has a more limited usage. Bosu is often used more negatively than English boss. Many people imagine that speakers of English who study the Japanese language find their way eased by the profusion of "English words" the Japanese have borrowed. Students of the language, however, often complain that borrowed words are more problematic than the older terms in the Japanese word pool. One of the biggest problems is the lack of adequate reference materials on the terms. Many of the existing works do little more than define the terms. This book handles the problematic areas. Here a reader will find sample sentences, tips on usage, and warnings against easy-to-commit mistakes. There are fascinating studies of how certain "English" terms were coined in Japan and of what led the Japanese to redefine certain common English words. Miura examines how certain words entered Japanese, and why they became popular. He theorizes on why an unexpected pronunciation developed. In discussing the borrowed terms, the author draws on many linguistic scholars, discusses prevailing beliefs on etymology and pronunciation, and uses his own considerable experience with both English and Japanese to help the student gain control of some of the most problematic words borrowed by J apanese from English . Each of the 850 words discussed under the text's more than 350 main headings is included in a n index for quick reference. The detail and currency of the explanations contained in this book are unmatched by other books on the subject. For the student hard put to use these borrowed words, this text offers real help.

Author : Taeko Kamiya
Publisher : Charles E. Tuttle Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : 0804818886

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Tuttle New Dictionary of Loanwords in Japanese by Taeko Kamiya Pdf

A comprehensive compilation of Japanese words of foreign origin covering business and everyday words.

Author : Mark Irwin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205926

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Loanwords in Japanese by Mark Irwin Pdf

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Author : Whaja Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040907631

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Western Loan-words in Japanese by Whaja Park Pdf

Author : Frank E Daulton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781847690302

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Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords by Frank E Daulton Pdf

This book is a valuable contribution to SLA research. Apart from the obvious target of the book, SLA researchers and teachers anywhere in the world, it will be of particular interest to the Japanese community and to Westerners interested in Japanese language and culture. It is not easy to write a book appealing to audiences as disparate as this, but Daulton has managed to do this very well. He writes clearly and lucidly and makes good use of his teaching experience in Japan (Hakan Ringbom, Abo Akademi University). Japan offers a prime example of lexical borrowing which relates to language transfer in second and foreign language learning. The insights gained by examining language borrowing in Japan can be applied wherever language contact has occurred and foreign languages are learned.Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language acquisition, assesses Japanese cognates that correspond to high-frequency and academic English, and discusses using this resource in teaching. It includes extensive lists of loanword cognates.

Author : Garland Hampton Cannon,Nicholas W. Warren
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English language
ISBN : 3447037644

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The Japanese Contributions to the English Language by Garland Hampton Cannon,Nicholas W. Warren Pdf

Author : Martin Boddenberg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656056256

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English Loanwords in the Japanese Language by Martin Boddenberg Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: Nowadays English has become the most important source of loanwords in Japanese by far. About 95% of all gairaigo loanwords (“words coming from abroad”, i.e. words originating from European languages) derived from the English language and it is estimated that about 5-10% of the Japanese lexicon are of English origin today (Stanlaw, 2004, p.1 + p.13). The status of the English language is high in Japan. It has become a marker of high education and openness to other (Western) cultures. Nearly every Japanese pupil is taught English for at least six years at school (from seventh to twelfth grade), but there is the possibility for private schools to start teaching eikaiwa (English conversation) from third grade on. English classes are obligatory for university students of all subjects, although it should be mentioned that these classes are usually overcrowded (often more than one hundred students) and that they take place only once a week for 90 minutes. A TOEFL test in 1997/98 among 26 Asian na-tions ranked Japan 25th and last together with North Korea (McKenzie, 2008, p 272). The Japanese government made heavy efforts to improve English teaching within the last decade. It was tried to motivate more Japanese pupils to spend a year abroad, only 1,000 Japanese pupils took chance of this opportunity in 2003, although there would have been provided money for 10,000 exchange students. Besides this, there are now more assistant language teachers - mainly from the inner circle of English speaking countries, but also, to a much smaller extent, from former British colonies - at Japanese schools to improve the eikaiwa lessons. The common eigo (English) lessons are still held by Japanese teachers and are strongly text and Grammar based, usually a translation into Japanese is given. Although the Western world was the model for the Japanese modernisation in the 19th and 20th century and English was without any doubt the means of communication with the West, the vast majority of the Japanese population has never become fluent English speakers.

Author : Akira Miura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : OCLC:1285565312

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English in Japanese by Akira Miura Pdf

Author : Shi Youwei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000293531

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Loanwords in the Chinese Language by Shi Youwei Pdf

A loanword, or wailaici, is a word with similar meaning and phonetic form to a word from a foreign language that has been naturalized in the recipient language. From ancient times, cultural exchanges between China and other countries has brought and integrated a myriad of loanwords to the Chinese language. Approaching the topic from a diachronic perspective, this volume is the first book-length work to chart the developmental trajectory, features, functions, and categories of loanwords into Chinese. Beginning with a general introduction to the Chinese loanword system, the author delves deeper to explore trends and standardization in Chinese loanword studies and the research landscape of contemporary loanword studies more generally. Combining theoretical reflections with real-life examples of Chinese loanwords, the author discusses not only long-established examples from the dictionary but also a great number of significant loanwords adopted in the 21st century. The author shows how the complexity of the Chinese loanword system is intertwined with the intricacies of the Chinese character system. This title will be an essential reference for students, scholars, and general readers who are interested in Chinese loanwords, linguistics, and language and culture.

Author : Yoshiyuki Asahi,Mayumi Usami,Fumio Inoue
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501501470

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Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics by Yoshiyuki Asahi,Mayumi Usami,Fumio Inoue Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the sociolinguistic studies on Japanese. Japanese, like other languages, has developed a highly diverse linguistic system that is realized as variation shaped by interactions of linguistic and social factors. This volume primarily focuses on both classic and current topics of sociolinguistics that were first studied in Western languages, and then subsequently examined in the Japanese language. The topics in this volume cover major issues in sociolinguistics that also characterize sociolinguistic features of Japanese. Such topics as gender, honorifics, and politeness are particularly pertinent to Japanese, as is well-known in general sociolinguistics. At the same time, this volume includes studies on other topics such as social stratification, discourse, contact, and language policy, which have been widely conducted in the Japanese context. In addition, this volume introduces "domestic" approaches to sociolinguistics developed in Japan. They emerged a few decades before the development of the so-called Labovian and Hymesian sociolinguistics in the US, and they have shaped a unique development of sociolinguistic studies in Japan. Contents Part I: History Chapter 1: Research methodology Florian Coulmas Chapter 2: Japan and the international sociolinguistic community Yoshiyuki Asahi and J.K. Chambers Chapter 3: Language life Takehiro Shioda Part II: Sociolinguistic patterns Chapter 4: Style, prestige, and salience in language change in progress Fumio Inoue Chapter 5: Group language (shūdango) Taro Nakanishi Chapter 6: Male-female differences in Japanese Yoshimitsu Ozaki Part III: Language and gender Chapter 7: Historical overview of language and gender studies: From past to future Orie Endo and Hideko Abe Chapter 8: Genderization in Japanese: A typological view Katsue A. Reynolds Chapter 9: Feminist approaches to Japanese language, gender, and sexuality Momoko Nakamura Part IV: Honorifics and politeness Chapter 10: Japanese honorifics Takashi Nagata Chapter 11: Intersection of traditional Japanese honorific theories and Western politeness theories Masato Takiura Chapter 12: Intersection of discourse politeness theory and interpersonal Communication Mayumi Usami Part V: Culture and discourse phenomena Chapter 13: Subjective expression and its roles in Japanese discourse: Its development in Japanese and impact on general linguistics Yoko Ujiie Chapter 14: Style, character, and creativity in the discourse of Japanese popular culture: Focusing on light novels and keitai novels Senko K. Maynard Chapter 15: Sociopragmatics of political discourse Shoji Azuma Part VI: Language contact Chapter 16: Contact dialects of Japanese Yoshiyuki Asahi Chapter 17: Japanese loanwords and lendwords Frank E. Daulton Chapter 18: Japanese language varieties outside Japan Mie Hiramoto Chapter 19: Language contact and contact languages in Japan Daniel Long Part VII: Language policy Chapter 20: Chinese characters: Variation, policy, and landscape Hiroyuki Sasahara Chapter 21: Language, economy, and nation Katsumi Shibuya

Author : Katrin Dohlus
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : France
ISBN : 3631590059

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The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation by Katrin Dohlus Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Humboldt--Univ., 2008).

Author : James H. M. Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043256549

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A Guide to Modern Japanese Loanwords by James H. M. Webb Pdf