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Lukac, Morana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The public's concern with the fate of the standard language has been well documented in the history of the complaint tradition. The print media have for centuries featured letters to the editor on questions of language use. This study examines a corpus of 258 language-related letters to the editor published in the English-speaking print media. By…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Editing, Computational Linguistics
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Honna, Nobuyuki – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Examines the growing influx of English loan words in Japanese, describing the structural and semantic changes that English loans go through in their Japanization process and the roles that they are expected to play. The social factors that drive the influx are also examined. (seven references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)