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Gems of Japanized English

Author : Miranda Kenrick
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902383
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Gems of Japanized English written by Miranda Kenrick and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever had the uneasy feeling that the Japanese do things better, this book may be the ideal antidote. Even the Japanese are quick to admit that despite their enthusiasm for learning it, they still have a certain amount of difficulty with the English language. This is no new phenomenon. Shortly after Japan opened her ports to foreign traders, one doctor advertised himself as "a Specialist in the Decease of Children"; eggs were sold as "extract of fowl"; and a notice advised that "Tomorrow, from midnight to 12 noon, you will receive dirty water." Fortunately, things are improving, but very slowly. A more recent English-language newspaper reported that someone's "wedding was consummated in the garden of the American consul's home," while a road sign was posted near a busy intersection that commanded drivers to "Have many accidents here." Long-time Tokyo resident Miranda Kenrick has collected these and hundreds of other delightful anecdotes to form a lighthearted, but unabashedly affectionate, portrait of the Japanese at home. Reading this book may do more for U.S.-Japan relations than a whole bookshelf of more serious-minded tomes.

Gems of Japanized English

Author : Miranda Kenrick
Publisher : Tuttle Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780804815550
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Gems of Japanized English written by Miranda Kenrick and published by Tuttle Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

More Gems of Japanized English

Author : Miranda Kenrick
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780804818544
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book More Gems of Japanized English written by Miranda Kenrick and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains hundreds of delightful stories about the misapplication of the English language in everyday Japanese life.

Gems of Japanized English

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784900737051
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Gems of Japanized English written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japanese English

Author : James Stanlaw
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622095712
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Japanese English written by James Stanlaw and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both a linguistic and literary perspective. Each volume will reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government and education; 'hybrid' Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book gives an in-depth analysis of the use of the English language in modern Japan. It explores the many ramifications the Japanese-English language and culture contact situation has for not only Japanese themselves, but also others in the international community. Data for this book has been gathered using anthropological ethnographic fieldwork, augmented by archival sources, written materials, and items from popular culture and the mass media. An interdisciplinary approach, including those of anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive science and symbolic anthropology, is taken in the exploration of the topics here. This book's arguments focus on four major theoretical linguistic and social issues, namely the place of the Japanese-English case in the larger context of 'World Englishes'; the place of the Japanese-English case in a general theory of language and culture contact; how Japanese English informs problems of categorization, meaning construction and cognition; and what it says about the social construction of identity and sense of self, nationalism and race. This book will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, and all readers who are interested in language contact, sociolinguistics, English as an international language, and World Englishes. It will also appeal to those who are interested in Japan and popular culture.

Re-made in Japan

Author : Joseph Jay Tobin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300060829
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Re-made in Japan written by Joseph Jay Tobin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Sanders, Elvis, Mickey Mouse, and Jack Daniels have been enthusiastically embraced by Japanese consumers in recent decades. But rather than simply imitate or borrow from the West, the Japanese reinterpret and transform Western products and practices to suit their culture. This entertaining and enlightening book shows how in the process of domesticating foreign goods and customs, the Japanese have created a culture in which once-exotic practices (such as ballroom dancing) have become familiar, and once- familiar practices (such as public bathing) have become exotic. Written by scholars from anthropology, sociology, and the humanities, the book ranges from analyses of Tokyo Disneyland and the Japanese passion for the Argentinean tango to discussions of Japanese haute couture and the search for an authentic nouvelle cuisine japonaise. These topics are approached from a variety of perspectives, with explorations of the interrelations of culture, ideology, and national identity and analyses of the roles that gender, class, generational, and regional differences play in the patterning of Japanese consumption. The result is a fascinating look at a dynamic society that is at once like and unlike our own.

Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan

Author : Lorraine Sterry
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213090
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan written by Lorraine Sterry and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan which is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing. It examines the narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, when Japan was first opened to the West, and became a highly desirable travel destination for decades thereafter. Many women travelled in this period, and although most left no record of their journeys, enough did to form a discrete body of literature spanning more than fifty years – from the end of the feudal Tokugawa era to the rise of Meiji Japan as a world power. Their narratives about Japan occupy a culturally significant place, not only in the genre of Victorian female travel writing, but in Victorian travel writing per se. The writers who are the subject of this book are divided into two groups: those who were ‘travellers-by-intent’, namely, Anna D’A, Alice Frere, Annie Brassey, Isabella Bird and Marie Stopes, and those who ‘travelled-by-default’ as the wives of diplomats, namely Mrs Pemberton Hodgson, Mrs Hugh Fraser and Baroness Albert d’Anethan.

Orientalism & Occidentalism

Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974261829
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Orientalism & Occidentalism written by Robin D. Gill and published by Paraverse Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Identity - collective -- Japan 2. Orientalism -- Occidentalism 3. Intercultural communication - stereotypes 4. Translation theory - Japanese/English 5. Japanese - sociolinguistics Languages exotic to one another, such as English and Japanese, create false images of their respective speakers which form and confirm stereotypes that can be denied by Cultural Relativism but not disproved, much less vanquished. Being in denial is not the same as being cured. This book, like the author's seven books published in Japan/ese, treats prejudice by uncovering its roots and exposing them to the healthy light of reason. At the same time, it rethinks Orientalism together with Occidentalism by including the Sinosphere's perspective of what is East and West. While students of translation, sociolinguistics and cross-cultural studies may benefit most from the discussion (there are copious notes and indices of names and of ideas), the heart of the work is pure essay, "a work of travel by the path of language" that "leads us through delicious nuances . . . into important mysteries." Robin D. Gill is an American, who began to study Japanese as an adult and published his first seven books in that language while working as an acquisitions editor and translation checker of fine nonfiction for Japanese publishers. His most recent book, and first in English, Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! boasts close to 1000 holothurian haiku. The three most common adjectives used by reviewers describing him and his work are "eclectic," "erudite" and "fun."

Even More Englishes

Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275564
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Even More Englishes written by Manfred Görlach and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even More Englishes comprises Manfred Görlach’s more recent papers devoted to general problems of the world language and to individual varieties. The collection starts with principal questions as to what can rightly be regarded as ‘English’, looks at specific features of emigrant Englishes and the value of individual features as evidence for linguistic geography — and for linguistic jokes. The functional range of Scots is traced through its history, and the question is raised whether we are justified to speak of ‘Celtic Englishes’ in Britain and Ireland. Two papers investigate the forms and functions of the world language in two African states, South Africa and Nigeria. A survey of new dictionaries of varieties of English and a discussion of whether pidgin and creole languages need different types of dictionaries are followed by a documentation of the history of the author’s projects in the field of English as a world language. Even More Englishes complements Englishes and More Englishes previously published in the Varieties of English Around the World book series.

The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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International Books in Print

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book International Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian Thought & Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Asian Thought & Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An English and Japanese, and Japanese and English Vocabulary

Author : Walter Henry Medhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An English and Japanese, and Japanese and English Vocabulary written by Walter Henry Medhurst and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliography of Asian Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Asian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language International

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consumption and Material Culture in Contemporary Japan

Author : Michael Ashkenazi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption and Material Culture in Contemporary Japan written by Michael Ashkenazi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating within the context of Japanese studies, this book examines a range of topics, including: the role of objects in the educational socialisation of young children, the transformation of everyday objects through the process of commodification, the culture of the collection and display of antiques and artefacts, and more.

Immigration

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313348030
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Immigration written by Ilan Stavans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it is essential to approach it in an informed, balanced fashion, and the material presented in this volume is designed to accomplish the task. To what extent are immigrants from Mexico and Central America different from their predecessors from say Italy, Poland, and Finland? Is the process of assimilation expected to be as successful today as it was a century ago? Has globalization changed the perspective of newcomers, making them remain loyal for a longer period of time to the place once called home? In what way is the Spanish language helping or impeding that assimilation? This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on the topic. Ten signed articles, essays, and interviews are included in the volume. Also featured is an introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost authorities on Latino culture, to provide historical background and cultural context; and suggestions for further reading to aid students in their research.