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The Sociolinguistic Significance of Borrowed Words in the Japanese Spoken in Hawaii [electronic resource] / Masanori Higa.

Studying the lexical borrowing of the Japanese community living in Hawaii inspires several hypotheses in the field of sociolinguistics. The use of borrowed words is a linguistic device to create a new Japanese dialect--Hawaiian Japanese. The borrowed words reflect the process and degree of social an...

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Main Author: Higa, Masanori
Corporate Author: University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Department of Linguistics
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1970.
Subjects:
Bilingualism.
Conceptual Schemes.
Cultural Differences.
English (Second Language)
Intonation.
Japanese.
Japanese American Culture.
Japanese Americans.
Language Instruction.
Language Research.
Linguistic Theory.
North American English.
Nouns.
Phonology.
Regional Dialects.
Second Language Learning.
Semantics.
Sociolinguistics.
Vocabulary.

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