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Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History - Couverture rigide

Loveday, Leo J.

 
9780198235590: Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History
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ISBN 10 : 0198235593 ISBN 13 : 9780198235590
Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

the Loveday volume is an interesting collection for those interested in the field of language contact and sociolinguistics in general (Bates Hoffer, Trinity University, International Journal of Bilingualism, Vol. 1, No. 2, Sept. 1997)

a very worthwhile effort ... The book demonstrates the effectiveness of taking a sociolinguistic approach to diachronic data and presents an interesting account of the dynamically evolving situations of language contact in present-day Japan. (Shoko Yohena Okazaki, Journal of Sociolinguistics 1/3)

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Éditeur
Clarendon Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198235593
ISBN 13 
9780198235590
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
250
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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