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Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact (Asian Englishes Today)

 

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.

1) Prologue

2) The dynamics of English words in contemporary Japanese: Japanese English and a 'beautiful human life'

3) The history of Japanese English language contact

4) The Japanese writing system and English

5) The poetics of English in Japanese pop songs and contemporary verse

6) A new voice: The use of English as a new rhetoric in modern Japanese women's language

7) Using the graphic and pictorial image to explore Japan's 'Empire of Signs'

8) Is it naisu rice or good gohan?: In Japan, it's not what you eat, but how you say it

9) Language and culture contact in the Japanese colour of nomenclature system: From neon oranges to shocking pinks

10) Sense, sensation, and symbols: English in the realm of the senses

11) Images of race and identity in Japanese and American language and culture contact

12) Japan, English, and World Englishes




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Tags: Japanese, language, English, community, themselves, Englishes, Today, Asian