Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History (Oxford Studies in Language Contact) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Language Contact in Japan: A Sociolinguistic History (Oxford Studies in Language Contact) Book

Focusing on the influence of foreign speech on the Japanese language particularly Chinese and English and demonstrating how these languages have been modified when incorporated into Japanese Professor Loveday offers a general model for understanding language contact behaviour.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0198235593
  • 9780198235590
  • Leo J. Loveday
  • 20 June 1996
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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