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| English | 1 |
| Japanese | 1 |
| Language Attitudes | 1 |
| Language Patterns | 1 |
| Linguistic Borrowing | 1 |
| Morphology (Languages) | 1 |
| Semantics | 1 |
| Uncommonly Taught Languages | 1 |
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| Hoffer, Bates | 1 |
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Peer reviewedHoffer, Bates – Language Sciences, 1990
Addresses complicated categories of loanwords and their uses in Japanese, an analysis of the developing functions of loanwords; the cultural attitudes that permit borrowings in some semantic areas; and how the present process of borrowing English words has similarities to the borrowing of Chinese language and culture some 1400 years ago.…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Japanese, Language Attitudes
