English In Japanese Language And Culture

Author : Kai Hilpisch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 9783640471157

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English in Japanese Language and Culture by Kai Hilpisch Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Siegen (Fachbereich 3 - Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Looking for the origin of the innumerable loanwords in the Japanese language, this thesis gives an overview on how English influenced Japanese language and culture throughout history and today. Beginning with a historical overview starting from early language contact, the role of English and other languages in the Japanese culture is observed: in pre-WWII times as well as during and after the war, until today. An analysis of the current status of English in Japan follows, covering the fields ESL, business and the media. The last part focuses on the loanwords themselves, how they function, and what reasons for using loans excessively the Japanese might have, making a connection to wa-sei eigo, the so-called English-made-in-Japan.

Author : James Stanlaw
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789622095717

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Japanese English by James Stanlaw Pdf

The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both a linguistic and literary perspective. Each volume will reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government and education; 'hybrid' Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book gives an in-depth analysis of the use of the English language in modern Japan. It explores the many ramifications the Japanese-English language and culture contact situation has for not only Japanese themselves, but also others in the international community. Data for this book has been gathered using anthropological ethnographic fieldwork, augmented by archival sources, written materials, and items from popular culture and the mass media. An interdisciplinary approach, including those of anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive science and symbolic anthropology, is taken in the exploration of the topics here. This book's arguments focus on four major theoretical linguistic and social issues, namely the place of the Japanese-English case in the larger context of 'World Englishes'; the place of the Japanese-English case in a general theory of language and culture contact; how Japanese English informs problems of categorization, meaning construction and cognition; and what it says about the social construction of identity and sense of self, nationalism and race. This book will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, and all readers who are interested in language contact, sociolinguistics, English as an international language, and World Englishes. It will also appeal to those who are interested in Japan and popular culture.

Author : Kyoko Hijirida,Muneo Yoshikawa
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780824843311

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Japanese Language and Culture for Business and Travel by Kyoko Hijirida,Muneo Yoshikawa Pdf

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Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136916830

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Language and Popular Culture in Japan by Brian Moeran Pdf

When this book was originally published it was the first work of its kind to examine the way in which language is used to express the ‘myth’ of advertising slogans and other popular cultural forms. By making use of general theories from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, media studies and semiotics, the book attempts to demystify Japanese culture as it has been hitherto presented in the West, and shows how such cultural forms as ‘noodle westerns’ and high-school baseball uphold the well-known ideologies of ‘selflessness’, ‘diligence’, ‘compliance’ and ‘co-operation’ typically associated with the Japanese. Ultimately, the book poses the question: are those whom we call the Japanese ‘real’ people in their own right, or merely a nation acting out a part written for them by Western civilisation?

Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824818784

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Japanese Communication by Senko K. Maynard Pdf

In an accessible and original study of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and culture, Senko Maynard characterizes the ways of communicating in Japanese and explores Japanese language-associated modes of thinking and feeling. Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context opens with a comparison of basic American and Japanese values via cultural icons--the cowboy and the samurai--before leading the reader to the key concept in her study: rationality. Writing for those who have a basic knowledge of Japanese language and culture, Maynard examines topics such as masculine and feminine speech, swearing, expressions of ridicule and conflict, adverbs of emotional attitude and the eloquence of silence. Maynard provides a refreshing and entertaining perspective for interpreting contemporary Japan, sometimes in contrast to the United States.

Author : Takao Suzuki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 477002780X

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Words in context : a Japanese perspective on language and culture by Takao Suzuki Pdf

Author : Michelle Haney Brown
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462913473

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My First Book of Japanese Words by Michelle Haney Brown Pdf

My First Book of Japanese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Japanese language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Japanese language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Japanese Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Japanese speech, to introduce core elements of Japanese culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages. Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Kanji (when applicable), Kana, and Romanized form (Romaji). With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the 125 million people worldwide that speak Japanese!

Author : Herbert Passin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037357410

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Japanese and the Japanese by Herbert Passin Pdf

Author : Elena Agathokleous
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346366740

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English in Japan. Language policies in Education by Elena Agathokleous Pdf

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The paper deals with the English language in Japan, specifically language policies in education. English has become the language through which the citizens of the globalized community of our world communicate and collaborate. The ability for a person to be able to use the English language to communicate with others is now more important than ever even in countries like Japan which in the past had no significant amount of tourists or immigrants and a rather local mentality of businesses so there was no great need for these people to be proficient in English.

Author : 鈴木孝夫
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000276647

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Words in Context by 鈴木孝夫 Pdf

Author : Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317961888

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Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan by Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour Pdf

This book explores the transition from the era of internationalization into the era of globalization of Japan by focusing on language and identity as its central themes. By taking an interdisciplinary approach covering education, cultural studies, linguistics and policy-making, the chapters in this book raise certain questions of what constitutes contemporary Japanese culture, Japanese identity and multilingualism and what they mean to local people, including those who do not reside in Japan but are engaged with Japan in some way within the global community. Topics include the role of technology in the spread of Japanese language and culture, hybrid language use in an urban context, the Japanese language as a lingua franca in China, and the identity construction of heritage Japanese language speakers in Australia. The authors do not limit themselves to examining only the Japanese language or the Japanese national/cultural identity, but also explore multilingual practices and multiple/fluid identities in "a transitional Japan." Overall, the book responds to the basic need for better accounts of language and identity of Japan, particularly in the context of increased migration and mobility.

Author : Leo J. Loveday
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191583698

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Language Contact in Japan by Leo J. Loveday Pdf

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.

Author : Natsuko Tsujimura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498569255

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Expressing Silence by Natsuko Tsujimura Pdf

In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638440301

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The English Influence on the Japanese Language - Borrowing as a Trend by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Historical Linguistics, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Languages have always been in contact with other languages. Much has been written about language contact among Indo-European languages. Thus, this paper aims to shed some light in the direction of a so-called exotic language: Japanese. For many it is still a language considered to be unaffected by outer influences due to its grammatical complexity and geographical origin. But quite the opposite is the case. Japanese culture and language comprise an abundance of English or foreign expressions respectively which gives rise to take a closer look, first of all what borrowing means in theory, and then how this can be applied on the subject of Japanese borrowings in particular, in terms of how much is borrowed, especially from the English language, and how the borrowings are integrated into the native Japanese language system.

Author : P. Seargeant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230306196

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English in Japan in the Era of Globalization by P. Seargeant Pdf

Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the nature, status, and function of English in Japan, focusing on the ways in which globalization is influencing language practices in the country.