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Loanwords in Japanese
Author(s): Mark Irwin (Author)
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date: June 16, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 9027205922
- ISBN-13: 9789027205926
Book Description
Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise to recent Japanese government publications seeking to outlaw foreign vocabulary or, at the very least, offer native translations. Beginning with a history of loanwords, chapters cover loanword phonology, loanword morphology, loanword orthography and official and public attitudes to Japanese loanwords. The volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of the Japanese language.
