Contact Japanese

Author : Leo J. Loveday
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583693
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contact in Japan written by Leo J. Loveday and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. Marshall Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages written by J. Marshall Unger and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years. The weaknesses of the reconstruction, according to J. Marshall Unger, are due to the early date at which pKJ split apart and to lexical material that the pre-Korean and pre-Japanese branches later borrowed from different languages to their north and south, respectively. Unger shows that certain Old Japanese words must have been borrowed from Korean from the fourth century C.E., only a few centuries after the completion of the Yayoi migrations, which brought wet-field rice cultivation to Kyushu from southern Korea. That leaves too short an interval for the growth of two distinct languages by the time they resumed active contact. Hence, concludes Unger, the original separation occurred on the peninsula much earlier, prior to reliance on paddy rice and the rise of metallurgy. Non-Korean elements in ancient peninsular place names were vestiges of pre-Yayoi Japanese language, according to Unger, who questions the assumption that Korean developed exclusively from the language of Silla. He argues instead that the rulers of Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla all spoke varieties of Old Korean, which became the common language of the peninsula as their kingdoms overwhelmed its older culture and vied for dominance. Was the separation so early as to vitiate the hypothesis of a common source language? Unger responds that, while assuming non-relationship obviates difficulties of pKJ reconstruction, it fares worse than the genetic hypothesis in relation to non-linguistic findings, and fails to explain a significant number of grammatical as well as lexical similarities. Though improving the reconstruction of pKJ will be challenging, he argues, the theory of genetic relationship is still the better working hypothesis. The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages shows how an interdisciplinary approach can shed light on a difficult case in which the separation of two languages lies close to the time horizon of the comparative method.

Author : Christalyn Brannen
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0893469734
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Business with Japanese Men written by Christalyn Brannen and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for women who work for, sell to, or communicate with Japanese businesses.

Author : Anthony P. Grant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199945098
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact written by Anthony P. Grant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world."-- Jaquette.

Author : James B. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135795983
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan written by James B. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula and they took things away. The economic and demographic structures of Kyongsang Province had deep and wide connections with these Japanese traders. Social and political clashes revolving around the Japan House in Pusan reveal Korean mentalities towards the Japanese connection. This study seeks to define 'Korea' by examining its frontier with Japan. The guiding problems are the relations between structures and agents and the self-definitions reached by pre-modern Koreans in their interaction with the Japanese. Case studies range from demography to taxation to trade to politics to prostitution. The study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries. It offers a model approach for Korea's northern frontier with China and shows that the peninsula was and is a complex brocade of differing regions. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with pre-1900 East Asia, Korea in particular, and especially Korea's relations with the outside world. Anyone interested in early-modern Japan and its external relations will also find it essential reading.

Author : Hitoshi Iwashita
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315308266
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Management written by Hitoshi Iwashita and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West. Through comparative ethnographic case studies in a Japanese multinational corporation (MNC), the book explores the cultural meanings of family, corporation, market and religion logics at each subsidiary’s site in Thailand, Taiwan, Belgium and the United States. In doing so, the book defines cultural space through an institutional logic approach. It argues that logics are culturally interpreted, which can impose a serious limitation on the institutional logic approach based on the analysis of Western society. It reveals that Japanese ‘family’ logics and Theravada Buddhism in Asia are strengthening each other and this directly supports the presupposition of amplification. It further elaborates on the ongoing constellations of logics that are continuously formed in relation to geographical contexts. The book also explains that the boundaries of organisational communities are not automatically formed by Japanese expatriates but constructed through actors’ profiles, which, in turn, raises their importance. Therefore, this book is a must-read for researchers, managers and anyone interested in Japanese MNCs.

Author : James Stanlaw
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622095712
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese English written by James Stanlaw and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Journal of Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James B. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135795991
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan written by James B. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws on a wide base of primary sources for Korea and Japan and introduces the problems that animate modern scholarship in both countries.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Journal of Engineering. Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: