Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic HistoryThe 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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Introducing Language Contact | 12 |
Japanese Contact with Asian Languages | 26 |
Figures | 33 |
The Social Evolution of Japanese Contact with European | 47 |
The Contexts of Contemporary Contact | 77 |
in presentday Japanese languagecontact | 78 |
Japanizing and Westernizing Patterns | 114 |
1ab Examples of mixed script | 122 |
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