Diffusion of Western loanwords in contemporary Japanese: a sociolinguistic approach to lexical variation
<p>The present research attempts to develop a general model of the diffusion of Western loanwords in contemporary Japanese within the variationist framework. It describes and predicts, based on empirical evidence from apparent- and real-time data, the elaborate process of changes in favor of l...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2017
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