The Languages Of Japan And Korea

Author : Nicolas Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415462877

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The Languages of Japan and Korea by Nicolas Tranter Pdf

The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within a common format, producing a long-needed introductory reference source. Korean, Japanese, Ainu, and representative members of the main groupings of the Ryukyuan chain are discussed for the first time in great detail in a single work. The volume is divided into language sketches, the majority of which are broken down into sections on phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Specific emphasis is placed on aspects of syntactic interest, including speech levels, honorifics and classifiers. Each language variety is represented in Roman-based transcription, although its own script (where there is such orthography) and IPA transcriptions are used sparingly where appropriate. The dialects of both the modern and oldest forms of the languages are given extensive treatment, with a primary focus on the differences from the standard language. These synchronic snapshots are complemented by a discussion of both the genetic and areal relationships between languages in the region. With contributions from a variety of scholars of the highest reputation, The Language of Japan and Korea is a much needed and highly useful tool for professionals and students in linguistics, as well as area studies specialists.

Author : S. Kanazawa
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1330407571

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The Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages by S. Kanazawa Pdf

Excerpt from The Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages The Korean language belongs to the same family of tongues as the language of Japan; it is in fact a branch of Japanese, like the native language of the Loo-choo Isles. The relation may be compared to that existing between the German, and Dutch languages, both being branches of the same Teutonic tree, or between the French and another Romance language, Spanish. This is by no means a new discovery; scholars, both foreign and Japanese have frequently manifested the same opinion and no one who has studied Old Japanese can fail to arrive at the same conclusion. That intercourse was held between the people of Japan and Korea in the earliest times is evident from the account of Prince Susa-no-wo's advent at Sosimori in the Korean province of Silla, the allusion to a number of Korean temples in our Engishiki and Fudoki, and the presence of the surname of Shiragi in the Shinsen-shojiroku. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521369185

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The Languages of Japan by Masayoshi Shibatani Pdf

A survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan includes the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English as well as a comprehensive analysis of Japanese linguistics.

Author : Christina Yi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231545365

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Colonizing Language by Christina Yi Pdf

With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender in 1945, Japan abruptly receded to a nation-state, establishing its present-day borders. Following Korea’s liberation, Korean was labeled the national language of the Korean people, and Japanese-language texts were purged from the Korean literary canon. At the same time, these texts were also excluded from the Japanese literary canon, which was reconfigured along national, rather than imperial, borders. In Colonizing Language, Christina Yi investigates how linguistic nationalism and national identity intersect in the formation of modern literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s, analyzing how key texts were produced, received, and circulated during the rise and fall of the Japanese empire. She considers a range of Japanese-language writings by Korean colonial subjects published in the 1930s and early 1940s and then traces how postwar reconstructions of ethnolinguistic nationality contributed to the creation of new literary canons in Japan and Korea, with a particular focus on writers from the Korean diasporic community in Japan. Drawing upon fiction, essays, film, literary criticism, and more, Yi challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories and the postcolonial present in East Asia. A Center for Korean Research Book

Author : Ayako Shinomiya Burton
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : IND:30000042779730

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Japanese Language Planning in Korea, 1905-1945 by Ayako Shinomiya Burton Pdf

Author : Christopher Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047420286

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Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives by Christopher Beckwith Pdf

This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo’s genetic relationship to Japanese, Koguryo phonology, and the Koguryo lexicon. It also analyzes the phonology of archaic Northeastern Chinese.

Author : Roy Andrew Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996*
Category : Altaic languages
ISBN : 389687022X

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Languages and History by Roy Andrew Miller Pdf

Author : Steve Kaufmann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9781420873290

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The Way of the Linguist by Steve Kaufmann Pdf

The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.

Author : Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004160255

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Koguryo by Christopher I. Beckwith Pdf

This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo's genetic relationship to Japanese, Koguryo phonology, and the Koguryo lexicon. It also analyzes the phonology of archaic Northeastern Chinese.

Author : S. Kanazawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : WISC:89065221855

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The Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages by S. Kanazawa Pdf

Author : Svetlana Paichadze
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031137983

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Identity, Language and Education of Sakhalin Japanese and Koreans by Svetlana Paichadze Pdf

This book explores the issues of education, the use of languages and the formation of self-identification of the Japanese and Korean diasporas of Sakhalin, over a hundred years period: from the time they moved to the island, until their “return” to historical homelands in Japan or South Korea. During this time, their language environment and language of education changed 4 times and Japanese and Korean of Sakhalin continued to be a linguistic and ethnic minority. This book is of interest to researchers, students, NGO supporters and education policy makers.

Author : Hajime Hoji,Patricia Marie Clancy
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0937073563

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Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 1 by Hajime Hoji,Patricia Marie Clancy Pdf

"The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will broaden the understanding of these two languages, especially through comparative study. The sixteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, held in October of 2006 at Kyoto University, was the first in the history of the conference to be held outside of the United States. The thirty-six papers in this volume encompass a variety of areas, such as phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; and the geographical and historical factors that influence the development of languages, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics." --Book Jacket.

Author : Roy Andrew Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9748299694

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Languages and History by Roy Andrew Miller Pdf

Author : Soonja Choi
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1881526216

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Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 3 by Soonja Choi Pdf

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Third Annual Southern California Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, held at San Diego State University. The papers discuss aspects of discourse and language acquisition, syntax and semantics, and phonology. The contributors include Taegoo Chung, Yoko Collier-Sanuki, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Kaoru Jorie, Hiroto Hoshi, Shoichi Iwasaki, Hee-Bok Jung, Kyu-hyun Kim, Yookyung Kim, Isatsugu Kitahara, Christopher Manning, William McClure, Shigeru Miyagawa, Junko Mori, Kei Nakamura, Myungkwan Park, Wendy Snyder, Keunwon Sohn, Susan Strauss, Natsuko Tsujimura, Shuichi Yatabe, and Alexander Vovin. Soonja Choi is associate professor of linguistics and oriental languages at San Diego State University.

Author : Martine Irma Robbeets
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : 3447052473

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Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? by Martine Irma Robbeets Pdf

Where does Japanese come from? The linguistic origin of the Japanese language is among the most disputed questions of language history. One current hypothesis is that Japanese is an Altaic language, sharing a common ancestor with Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. But, the opinions are strongly polarized. Especially the inclusion of Japanese into this classification model is very much under debate. Given the lack of consensus in the field, this book presents a state of the art for the etymological evidence relating Japanese to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The different Altaic etymologies proposed in the scholarly literature are gathered in an etymological index of Japanese appended to this book. An item-by-item sifting of the evidence helps to hold down borrowings, universal similarities and coincidental look-alikes to a small percentage. When the remaining core-evidence is screened in terms of phonological regularity, the answer to the intriguing question is beginning to take shape.