| Description |
xi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Asian Englishes today |
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Asian Englishes today.
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| Contents |
Prologue -- The dynamics of English words in contemporary Japanese: Japanese English and a "beautiful human life" -- The history of Japanese English language contact -- The Japanese writing system and English -- The poetics of English in Japanese pop songs and contemporary verse -- A new voice: the use of English as a new rhetoric in modern Japanese women's language -- Using the graphic and pictorial image to explore Japan's "Empire of Signs" -- Is it naisu rice or good gohan? In Japan, it's not what you eat, but how you say it -- Language and culture contact in the Japanese colour nomenclature system: from neon oranges to shocking pinks -- Sense, sensation, and symbols: English in the realm of the senses -- Images of race and identity in Japanese and American language and culture contact -- Japan, English, and world Englishes -- Appendix: the Japanese syllabary writing system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-355) and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Japan.
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Language and culture -- Japan.
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| LC no. |
00002646 |
| ISBN |
9622095712 |
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