BARRS, Keith    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2015/11
Type	Articles
Peer Review	With peer review
Title	Errors in the use of English in the Japanese linguistic landscape
Contribution Type	Single-Authored Publication
Journal	English Today
Volume, Issue, Pages	31(4),pp.30-33
Number of pages	4
Details	Foreign words which have been borrowed into the Japanese language, especially in the last few centuries, are commonly labelled as 外来語, gairaigo. This umbrella term encompasses lexical items from numerous foreign languages, including Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, German, and English. As they undergo the borrowing process into the Japanese linguistic system, the words are likely to undergo modification, particularly in terms of their phonology, orthography, semantics, and syntax. This article looks at several types of errors that can happen when English loanwords are used in the Japanese linguistic landscape.