Language contact and its corollaries for Japanese vocabulary

  • Nguyễn Tô Chung

Abstract

The emergence of new words in a language often derives from two factors :  the internal lexical development of the language to promptly reflect the development of the sociocultural community using it; and the borrowing from foreign languages for many reasons, which formed a vocabulary of  foreign origin in the receptive language. This is a common language phenomenon and the appearance of words of foreign origin in a language can be considered a natural and inevitable phenomenon. In this article, the authors only focus on the formation process of borrowings in Japanese due  to the influence of the contact with other languages and on the cultural and historical factors affecting it.

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Published
2015-07-09
Section
ARTICLES