Satoshi Nambu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5901359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Satoshi Nambu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Satoshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Nambu |
| SIGNATURE | NAMBU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0101-7894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English signage around U.S. military bases in Japan: Insights from linguistic landscape research
This study examines the use of English on signage in the areas surrounding two U.S. military bases in Japan, Yokosuka Navy Base and Yokota Air Base, highlighting the diverse functions of English that emerge through interactions between American residents and Japanese locals. In these areas, including streets that have become tourist destinations for Japanese visitors, various commercial establishments coexist, some offering authentic products and…
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan surrounding social issues and ideologies: A study on prohibition signs and schoolscape
Multilingual parents’ language development concerns in the early years
One cohort or two: Enjoyment, anxiety and study behaviours among intermediate language learners in tertiary language classes
Foreign language anxiety and enjoyment have been shown to correlate with each other ( Botes et al., 2022 ), but few studies to date have considered whether distinct groups of learners within the one class may experience these variables differently. This article considers whether learners who have arrived in Australian university intermediate language classrooms via two different pipelines, either having studied the language at university the year…
Reflection on Japan's language policy for English loanwords: Policy aims and media usage analysis
This study reflects on Japan's language policy, focusing on the government‐led proposals implemented in 2006, which suggested replacing loanwords with Japanese equivalents, known as Gairaigo Iikae Teian ‘proposals for replacing loanwords’. By investigating English loanwords, this article explores the impact of English on Japanese vocabulary, while providing insights into the practical implementation of the government-led language policy in Japan …
Multilingual practices in the linguistic landscape of historical religious sites in Japan as international tourist destinations
English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape: The roles of English in the linguistic landscape
Through the analysis of English in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Tokyo, this article demonstrates the diverse functions of English on signage and argues that the use of English in different areas of Tokyo mirrors the distinct socioeconomic characteristics of each area, aiming to highlight how English contributes to shaping the multifaceted Tokyo's cityscape. This study specifically contrasts the three areas: Asakusa and Tsukiji, Shibuya, and R…
Linguistic landscape of Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo: A comparative study of Koreatown and Islamic Street
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two distinct ethnic areas in Shin-kubo, Japan: Koreatown and Islamic Street.By paying particular attention to the difference in the formation of the two immigrant communities, this study aims to better understand various functions of language on signage and their impact on sociocultural interactions between immigrants and the host society.The findings reveal distinct …
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan: A case study of Japanese Brazilian communities
To have a better understanding of the sociolinguistic surroundings of Japanese Brazilians as return migrants in Japan, this study investigates language use in their communities from a perspective of linguistic landscape (LL), paying particular attention to their ethnic identity as to how they are viewed by the host society, including language policies, and how they view themselves in Japan. Although it has been said in the literature that they ar…
An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese
We present the results of two acceptability judgment and three self-paced reading experiments exploring the source of degradation effects on the acceptability of genitive subjects caused by having them not adjacent to the verb. From a syntactic perspective, Miyagawa (2011) attributes this adjacency constraint to his assumption that the genitive subject is situated in Spec-vP, lower than adverbials adjoined to vP or higher. This theory thus predic…
“Pseudo-dialect” or “role language”? Speech varieties in three Japanese translations of Gone with the Wind
This study considers the use of dialectal and distinctive language features in three Japanese translations of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1938, 2015, and 2015–2016. Previous studies have noted that these translations adopt various linguistic features originating in dialects from Japan’s Tōhoku region when rendering the African American Vernacular English–influenced eye dialect spoken by Black enslaved char…
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese
The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: Diachronic and synchronic considerations
Some Japanese predicates allow their object to be marked either with the accusative particle o , the canonical marker of an object, or with the nominative particle ga , the canonical marker of a subject. This work reports and discusses the results of corpus-based surveys on the patterns and recent trends in nominative-marking on objects. It will be demonstrated: (i) that there has been an increase in the proportion of accusative-marking over nomi…
Japanese subject markers in linguistic change: A quantitative analysis of data spanning 90 years and its theoretical implications
Based on a statistical analysis of a corpus data from the period of 1915–2005, this article discusses two variants for a subject marker in Japanese, and argues that it is a case of linguistic change in progress. While representing effects of three linguistic factors on the use of the variants, the chronological observation of each factor revealed that this phenomenon demonstrates the Constant Rate Effect. The quantitative data also provides firm …
The nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese and information structure
A Quantitative Analysis of Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Based on his grammaticality judgment test, Harada (1971) claimed that there is an ongoing change, whereby the speakers of Tokyo Japanese increasingly prefer ga to no in relevant environments. In this paper, I present a quantitative analysis using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. The goal of this study is not only to validate the findings in Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007), but also to g…
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan: A case study of Japanese Brazilian communities
To have a better understanding of the sociolinguistic surroundings of Japanese Brazilians as return migrants in Japan, this study investigates language use in their communities from a perspective of linguistic landscape (LL), paying particular attention to their ethnic identity as to how they are viewed by the host society, including language policies, and how they view themselves in Japan. Although it has been said in the literature that they ar…
Linguistic landscape of Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo: A comparative study of Koreatown and Islamic Street
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two distinct ethnic areas in Shin-kubo, Japan: Koreatown and Islamic Street.By paying particular attention to the difference in the formation of the two immigrant communities, this study aims to better understand various functions of language on signage and their impact on sociocultural interactions between immigrants and the host society.The findings reveal distinct …
A Quantitative Analysis of Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Based on his grammaticality judgment test, Harada (1971) claimed that there is an ongoing change, whereby the speakers of Tokyo Japanese increasingly prefer ga to no in relevant environments. In this paper, I present a quantitative analysis using the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. The goal of this study is not only to validate the findings in Nambu (2007) and Nambu and Matsuda (2007), but also to g…
The nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese and information structure
Japanese subject markers in linguistic change: A quantitative analysis of data spanning 90 years and its theoretical implications
Based on a statistical analysis of a corpus data from the period of 1915–2005, this article discusses two variants for a subject marker in Japanese, and argues that it is a case of linguistic change in progress. While representing effects of three linguistic factors on the use of the variants, the chronological observation of each factor revealed that this phenomenon demonstrates the Constant Rate Effect. The quantitative data also provides firm …
The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: Diachronic and synchronic considerations
Some Japanese predicates allow their object to be marked either with the accusative particle o , the canonical marker of an object, or with the nominative particle ga , the canonical marker of a subject. This work reports and discusses the results of corpus-based surveys on the patterns and recent trends in nominative-marking on objects. It will be demonstrated: (i) that there has been an increase in the proportion of accusative-marking over nomi…
An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese
We present the results of two acceptability judgment and three self-paced reading experiments exploring the source of degradation effects on the acceptability of genitive subjects caused by having them not adjacent to the verb. From a syntactic perspective, Miyagawa (2011) attributes this adjacency constraint to his assumption that the genitive subject is situated in Spec-vP, lower than adverbials adjoined to vP or higher. This theory thus predic…
“Pseudo-dialect” or “role language”? Speech varieties in three Japanese translations of Gone with the Wind
This study considers the use of dialectal and distinctive language features in three Japanese translations of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1938, 2015, and 2015–2016. Previous studies have noted that these translations adopt various linguistic features originating in dialects from Japan’s Tōhoku region when rendering the African American Vernacular English–influenced eye dialect spoken by Black enslaved char…
A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese
English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape: The roles of English in the linguistic landscape
Through the analysis of English in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Tokyo, this article demonstrates the diverse functions of English on signage and argues that the use of English in different areas of Tokyo mirrors the distinct socioeconomic characteristics of each area, aiming to highlight how English contributes to shaping the multifaceted Tokyo's cityscape. This study specifically contrasts the three areas: Asakusa and Tsukiji, Shibuya, and R…
Linguistic landscape of Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo: A comparative study of Koreatown and Islamic Street
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two distinct ethnic areas in Shin-kubo, Japan: Koreatown and Islamic Street.By paying particular attention to the difference in the formation of the two immigrant communities, this study aims to better understand various functions of language on signage and their impact on sociocultural interactions between immigrants and the host society.The findings reveal distinct …
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan: A case study of Japanese Brazilian communities
To have a better understanding of the sociolinguistic surroundings of Japanese Brazilians as return migrants in Japan, this study investigates language use in their communities from a perspective of linguistic landscape (LL), paying particular attention to their ethnic identity as to how they are viewed by the host society, including language policies, and how they view themselves in Japan. Although it has been said in the literature that they ar…
One cohort or two: Enjoyment, anxiety and study behaviours among intermediate language learners in tertiary language classes
Foreign language anxiety and enjoyment have been shown to correlate with each other ( Botes et al., 2022 ), but few studies to date have considered whether distinct groups of learners within the one class may experience these variables differently. This article considers whether learners who have arrived in Australian university intermediate language classrooms via two different pipelines, either having studied the language at university the year…
Reflection on Japan's language policy for English loanwords: Policy aims and media usage analysis
This study reflects on Japan's language policy, focusing on the government‐led proposals implemented in 2006, which suggested replacing loanwords with Japanese equivalents, known as Gairaigo Iikae Teian ‘proposals for replacing loanwords’. By investigating English loanwords, this article explores the impact of English on Japanese vocabulary, while providing insights into the practical implementation of the government-led language policy in Japan …
Multilingual practices in the linguistic landscape of historical religious sites in Japan as international tourist destinations
English signage around U.S. military bases in Japan: Insights from linguistic landscape research
This study examines the use of English on signage in the areas surrounding two U.S. military bases in Japan, Yokosuka Navy Base and Yokota Air Base, highlighting the diverse functions of English that emerge through interactions between American residents and Japanese locals. In these areas, including streets that have become tourist destinations for Japanese visitors, various commercial establishments coexist, some offering authentic products and…
Linguistic landscape of immigrants in Japan surrounding social issues and ideologies: A study on prohibition signs and schoolscape
Multilingual parents’ language development concerns in the early years
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Linguistic landscape (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)