Japan mania and Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin: Lexical structure and social discourse
Japan fever introduces new Japanese loanwords to Taiwan Mandarin. This study examines the Japanese loanwords from three streams of borrowings and collects data from newspaper corpus, speaker’s colloquial usages and the literature. It aims to investigate the morphological representations of the loanw...
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ftchengkunguniv:oai:ir.lib.ncku.edu.tw:987654321/108960 2023-05-15T18:32:40+02:00 Japan mania and Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin: Lexical structure and social discourse Hsieh, Shelley Ching-yu Hsu, Hui-li 外國語文學系 2006 http://ir.lib.ncku.edu.tw/handle/987654321/108960 eng en_US eng Chinese University Press Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Vol.34, No.1, pp.44-79 article 2006 ftchengkunguniv 2016-05-22T07:24:24Z Japan fever introduces new Japanese loanwords to Taiwan Mandarin. This study examines the Japanese loanwords from three streams of borrowings and collects data from newspaper corpus, speaker’s colloquial usages and the literature. It aims to investigate the morphological representations of the loanwords, observe their influence to the lexical structure of Taiwan Mandarin and to examine the Japan mania and thesocial pattern in Taiwan. Transliteration, loan translation, and form-meaning reproduction are three main types of written representations of theseloanwords. The vocabulary in Mandarin is enriched either by the direct, indirect borrowings or by revivals due to the intensive contact in the history between Chinese and Japanese. In the new millennium, Japan is more a commercial example to Taiwan than an academic medium as it was a century ago. The Japanese loanwords are the pointers of Taiwan’s awareness when pacing toward globalization. Article in Journal/Newspaper The Pointers National Cheng Kung University: NCKU Institutional Repository |
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Japan fever introduces new Japanese loanwords to Taiwan Mandarin. This study examines the Japanese loanwords from three streams of borrowings and collects data from newspaper corpus, speaker’s colloquial usages and the literature. It aims to investigate the morphological representations of the loanwords, observe their influence to the lexical structure of Taiwan Mandarin and to examine the Japan mania and thesocial pattern in Taiwan. Transliteration, loan translation, and form-meaning reproduction are three main types of written representations of theseloanwords. The vocabulary in Mandarin is enriched either by the direct, indirect borrowings or by revivals due to the intensive contact in the history between Chinese and Japanese. In the new millennium, Japan is more a commercial example to Taiwan than an academic medium as it was a century ago. The Japanese loanwords are the pointers of Taiwan’s awareness when pacing toward globalization. |
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Japan mania and Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin: Lexical structure and social discourse |
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Japan mania and Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin: Lexical structure and social discourse |
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