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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Japanese language"”.
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Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Modern Languages. Thesis. 1965. Ph.D.
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Ideologies, policies, and practices: Japanese language education in Australian secondary schools
This study explores Japanese Language Education (JLE) in Australia by untangling an interplay of language policies, practices and ideologies. It focuses on top-down policy initiatives, the bottom-up grassroots practices of secondary school Japanese language teachers (JLTs), and language ideologies …
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The history of loan words in Japanese and their effect on the Japanese language
… opened relations with other countries where both language and culture were heavily influenced. From Chinese influence since the 5th century until European influence a thousand years later, currently the biggest linguistic influence on Japanese is American English. Loan words from these influences …
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Building Communicative Competence: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Intensive Japanese-Language Program
<p>Even though language-program evaluations provide educators with various types of information on teaching practices and the programs in which they work, insufficient literature discusses issues related to language-program evaluation. This mixed-methods study examined the effectiveness of a …
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A study of nominal compounds in Sino-Japanese
Sino-Japanese is an important part of the Japanese language. It is unique in the sense that it has many properties the rest of Japanese does not have. This is due to the fact that Sino-Japanese is not native to the Japanese language, but is borrowed from the Chinese language centuries ago. As a …
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Perspectives on differentiation in practice : an interpretive study from teaching Japanese as a second language in Western Australian secondary schools
… the context of Western Australian (WA) second language teaching practice. Significantly, research into differentiation is a relatively new phenomenon in Australia and in particular, to WA second language teaching. Data was collected from seven Japanese language tcachers and their perspectivcs …
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Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s
This dissertation investigates how Japanese-language literature by Korean writers both emerged out of and stood in opposition to discourses of national language, literature, and identity. The project is twofold in nature. First, I examine the rise of Japanese-language literature by Korean colonial …
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Conversational code-switching among Japanese-English bilinguals who have Japanese background
… the code-switching of native speakers of Japanese in an English-speaking context. The languages involved in code-switching therefore are English and Japanese. This is an instance of communication in the participants' first language, in a setting where the speakers' second language is …
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Searching for the semantic boundaries of the Japanese colour term 'ao'
The Japanese language has a colour term, 'ao' (or 'aoi'), which is usually referred to in bilingual dictionaries as being the equivalent of English 'blue'. Very often, however, it is used to describe things which English speakers would describe as being green. Granny Smith apples are 'ao', so are …
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The western screenwriter in Japan: screenwriting considerations in transnational cinema.
… of a feature film screenplay for mainstream Japanese-language cinema by a British screenwriter. As a long-term resident of Japan with production credits in Japanese cinema, I have for many years been interested in how to write stories set in Japan that will appeal to domestic and …
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Japan's Security Decisions: Allison's Conceptual Models and Missile Defense Policy
… concepts by delving into the unique themes of Japanese politics. The climate in which this policy decision is made is framed through a discussion of the strategic environment and Japanese defense policy following the Cold War and 9/11. The rational actor, organizational process, and …
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Beliefs And Motivations Of Foreign Language Learners
… purposes, and expectations for learning Japanese and/or Spanish language. A survey was conducted to collect data on EKU students’ demographics, as well as motivations and foreign language learning beliefs. Two hundred thirty eight students completed the questionnaire that includes a …
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Life Stories of Nikkeijin Seeking Better Opportunities: The Motivation of Brazilian Immigrants in Japan
The immigration of Brazilian-Japanese to Japan has started as recently as the early 1980s as a result of an economic downturn in Brazil and labor shortages in Japan. In a recent study published by the Ministry of Justice in Japan, there are about 250,000 Brazilians currently working throughout …
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Long-Term Western Residents in Japan: Hidden Barriers to Acculturation
… of developing satisfying relationships with Japanese, due primarily to different expectations for psychological closeness and self-disclosure in Japan and the West. Another is the social effect of Othering, the centuries-old process where Japanese society divides things into those which are …
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Performance Intensity Functions for Digitally Recorded Japanese Speech Audiometry Materials
… recorded speech audiometry materials in the Japanese language to evaluate Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) and speech discrimination. Trisyllabic words were used to evaluate the SRT and bisyllabic words were used for speech discrimination. Words were recorded by one native female talker and …
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First-person singular pronouns in Japanese: How do they work in conversation?
… a variety of linguistic items in a wide range of languages. First-person singular (1SG) pronouns may be one of the most fundamental linguistic items for expressing subjectivity because they directly reflect the speaker, who is the owner of subjective point of view. This dissertation explores the …
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
This thesis explores the issues of language and power in the Qing Empire’s (1644-1911) northeastern borderlands within the larger context of political reforms in late Qing China between 1890 and 1911. To the present, much research on the history of language in late Qing China continues to fall …
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TEMPORAL PROPERTIES IN JAPANESE (TENSE, CONDITIONALS).
… between morphological tense forms of Japanese, such as (r)u ("non-past") and ta ("past"), and their temporal interpretation. The goal of the research reported here is to establish a simple overall theory. The analysis focuses on the following sentence types: simple sentences, complex …
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In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
… in the works of contemporary and postwar Japanese women poets Ishigaki Rin: 1920-2004), Tomioka Taeko: b. 1935), Yoshihara Sachiko: 1932-2002), It├┤ Hiromi: b. 1955), and Isaka Yok├┤: b. 1949). Recognizing the strong sense of abjection that permeates postwar and contemporary Japanese …
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