The Diffusion of Western Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese　Aimi Kuya（久屋愛実著）　ひつじ書房 The Diffusion of Western Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese:A Variationist Approach　Aimi Kuya（久屋愛実著）　ひつじ書房
2019年2月刊行

Hituzi Linguistics in English No.30

The Diffusion of Western Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese:
A Variationist Approach

Aimi Kuya（久屋愛実著）

菊判上製カバー装　248頁　定価12600円＋税

ISBN 978-4-89476-949-6

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【内容】
本書は、現代日本語語彙の「カタカナ語化」の様相を変異研究の視点から解明する社会言語学の研究書である。英語を主とする西欧諸語との言語接触の結果、日本語には和語や漢語と同じ意味を持つカタカナ語（「ケース」・「サポート」など）が多数存在する。意識調査とコーパス調査を通じて、カタカナ語が選択される言語的要因、使用者の社会的属性との相関、場面による既存語との使い分け、見かけ時間と実時間を利用した変化予測モデルなどについて論じる。



【Contents】

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations


chapter 1　Borrowing with Interest
1.1　Western loanwords as new alternatives to existing lexical items
1.2　Purpose and structure of this study


chapter 2　Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese
2.1　Lexical strata in Japanese
2.2　History of loanwords in Japanese
2.3　Types of loanwords in focus
2.4　Previous approaches to loanwords, and their limitations
　2.4.1　Quantitative lexicology
　2.4.2　Corpus linguistics
　2.4.3　Sociolinguistics


chapter 3　Data and Analytical Method: Analyzing Lexical Variation
3.1　Nationwide opinion surveys on loanwords
3.2　BCCWJ: a written corpus
3.3　CSJ: a spoken corpus
3.4　Complementary use of different sources of data
3.5　S-curve model of language change
3.6　Issues of extending variationist methodology to lexical variation


chapter 4　Age as an External Factor
4.1　Apparent-time approach to language change
4.2　Opinion surveys
4.3　Distribution according to gender
4.4　Distribution according to age
4.5　Delay in loanword diffusion among the youngest age group(s)
4.6　Developing an s-curve model
4.7　Predicting change based on apparent-time distributions
4.8　Patterns of loanword diffusion in apparent time


chapter 5　Other External Factors: Gender, Education, Register, and Style
5.1　Establishing trends in loanword distribution according to social and stylistic factors
5.2　Using BCCWJ and CSJ as synchronic corpora
5.3　Selecting potential lexical variables
5.4　Analysis of the written corpus (BCCWJ)
5.5　Analysis of the spoken corpus (CSJ)
5.6　Summary of the factor-by-factor analyses


chapter 6　Incorporating Internal and External Factors into Analysis: A Case Study of Keesu (< Case)
6.1　Towards a more fine-grained analysis of lexical variation
6.2　Identifying envelope of variation
6.3　Keesu in BCCWJ
　6.3.1　Internal factors: syntactic structure and co-occurring predicate
　6.3.2　External factors: year of birth, gender, education, register, and genre
　6.3.3　Multivariate analysis
6.4　Additional analysis: keesu in CSJ
6.5　Sociolinguistically asymmetric distributions of keesu


chapter 7　Stylistic Constraints on Lexical Choice: A Case Study of Sapooto (< Support)
7.1　Elucidating the impact of style on lexical choice
7.2　Previous studies on style
7.3　The National Survey on Attitudes to Loanwords II (NINJAL 2005a)
7.4　Effect of age, education, gender, and style
7.5　Predicting the diffusion of sapooto in a multi-dimensional space
7.6　Motivations for switching from or to the loanword
7.7　Elaborate process of loanword diffusion across different styles


chapter 8　Loanword Diffusion in Real Time
8.1　The apparent-time hypothesis revisited
8.2　Using interview- and corpus-based data in diachronic analyses
8.3　Examining the variability of the community overall
8.4　Examining the variability of the individual speakers
8.5　Patterns of loanword diffusion in real time
　8.5.1　Change with no acceleration/deceleration
　8.5.2　Accelerated change
　8.5.3　Decelerated change
　8.5.4　Reversed change
8.6　Towards more precise predictions of change


chapter 9　General Summary and Discussion
9.1　Identyfying variation on a lexical level
9.2　Socially structured nature of lexical variation
9.3　Language attitudes and linguistic behavior
9.4　Demonstration of change in real time
9.5　Actuation problem of loanword diffusion
9.6　Prospects for further research


Appendices
References
Dictionaries & Corpora
Summary in Japanese
Index



【著者紹介】
久屋愛実（くや あいみ）
松山大学人文学部英語英米文学科講師（社会言語学および英語担当）。九州大学文学部（社会学専攻）在学中に韓国ソウル大学へ交換留学したことを機に、ことばと社会との関係性に興味を持つ。卒業後は言語学を学ぶために英国オックスフォード大学大学院へ進学し、社会言語学の道へ。2011年修士号、2017年博士号取得。主な研究テーマは言語変異・言語変化。

主な論文
・「Belfast英語における平叙文と平叙疑問文の文末上昇調にみられる音響的差異—コーパスを利用したイントネーション研究」『英語コーパス研究』第23号（2016）

Aimi Kuya is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and English at Matsuyama University, Japan. She developed her interest in the relationship between language and society during a year as an exchange student at Seoul National University in South Korea, when she was studying Sociology for a B.A. at Kyushu University, Japan. She read Linguistics for her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) at the University of Oxford, UK. Her current research interests include language variation and change.

Main academic article:
・Acoustic Distinctions between Final Rises in Statements and Declarative Questions in Belfast English: A Corpus-based Study of Intonation. English Corpus Studies, 23 (2016).



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