Loanwords in Japanese

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0592-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irwin, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables

xi–xii
List of figures

xiii–xiv
List of abbreviations

xv–xvi
Transcriptions & translations

xvii–xviii
Acknowledgements

xix–xx
Chapter 1 Introduction

1–21
Chapter 2 A history of Japanese loanwords

23–70
Chapter 3 Phonology

71–136
Chapter 4 Morphology, morphophonology and semantics

137–158
Chapter 5 Orthography

159–192
Chapter 6 Attitudes to Loanwords

193–206
References

207–228
Donor word

229–240
Loanword index

241–270
Subject index

271–276