Language Contact in Japan

A Sociolinguistic History

Bibliographic Data

ID6082229
AuthorsRoy Andrew Miller (corresponding author), Leo Loveday, Leo J Loveday
Year1998
Volume24
Issue1
Pages208
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Japanese Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-6848 • E-ISSN: 1549-4721
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/132965
OpenAlexW2082260488
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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

Language contact · Linguistics · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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