Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based LoanwordsThis book is a valuable contribution to SLA research. Apart from the obvious target of the book, SLA researchers and teachers anywhere in the world, it will be of particular interest to the Japanese community and to Westerners interested in Japanese language and culture. It is not easy to write a book appealing to audiences as disparate as this, but Daulton has managed to do this very well. He writes clearly and lucidly and makes good use of his teaching experience in Japan (Hakan Ringbom, Abo Akademi University). Japan offers a prime example of lexical borrowing which relates to language transfer in second and foreign language learning. The insights gained by examining language borrowing in Japan can be applied wherever language contact has occurred and foreign languages are learned.Many of the most important English vocabulary may already exist in native lexicons. This pioneering book examines Japanese lexical borrowing, clarifies the effect of cognates on foreign language acquisition, assesses Japanese cognates that correspond to high-frequency and academic English, and discusses using this resource in teaching. It includes extensive lists of loanword cognates. |
Contents
The Assimilation of English into Japanese | 9 |
The Similarity of 3K Sampled Borrowed | 22 |
Resolving the Paradox of Cognates | 43 |
The Effect of Loanwords in Japanese on | 61 |
Common Loanword Cognates for Highfrequency | 77 |
Quantifying the Overlap and Quality | 87 |
Barriers to Accessing Cognates | 101 |
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