Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords / / Frank E. Daulton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Daulton, Frank E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

Throughout the world, the mother tongue fundamentally affects second language acquisition. Japanese contains thousands of loanwords, many based on the most useful types of English vocabulary. This book examines gairaigo -- Western loanwords in Japanese -- and its effect on L2 English acquisition. The first part introduces Japanese lexical borrowing. The second part resolves the “paradox of cognates” and clarifies the effect of gairaigo on English acquisition. The third part assesses the loanword cognates in Japanese that correspond to high-frequency and academic English. The fourth part focuses on barriers to utilizing this L1 resource. The epilogue presents general principles and suggestions for using gairaigo in teaching, and the appendix features useful lists of English/Japanese cognates. There are important pedagogic implications for wherever language contact has occurred.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Importance of Cognates for EFL in Japan -- Part 1: Japan’s Importation of English -- Chapter 1. The Assimilation of English into Japanese – A Historical and Linguistic Overview -- Chapter 2. Today’s Generation of Gairaigo -- Part 2: Gairaigo and Language Acquisition -- Chapter 3. Resolving the Paradox of Cognates -- Chapter 4. The Effect of Loanwords in Japanese on the Learning of English -- Part 3: The Built-in Lexicons -- Chapter 5. Common Loanword Cognates for High-frequency and Academic English -- Chapter 6. Quantifying the Overlap and Quality of Japanese/English Cognates -- Part 4: Exploiting Japanese Loanword Cognates -- Chapter 7. Barriers to Accessing Cognates -- Chapter 8. Extending Word Knowledge Within Word Families -- Epilogue: New Horizons -- Appendix 1: The Standard Set of Katakana -- Appendix 2: The List of Common Loanwords Corresponding to the BNC 3000 -- Appendix 3: Academic Borrowed Words -- Appendix 4. The Similarity of 1K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- Appendix 5. The Similarity of 2K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- Appendix 6. The Similarity of 3K Sampled Borrowed Words and Japanese Loanwords -- References -- Index