バーズ キース   BARRS, Keith
  BARRS, Keith
   所属   広島修道大学  人文学部
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2015/02
形態種別 その他の研究業績
査読 査読有り
標題 Lexical Semantics of English Loanwords in Japanese
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Learning, Working and Communicating in a Global Context. Proceedings of the 47th BAAL Meeting
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 pp.29-35
頁数 7
概要 The Japanese language is home to tens of thousands of English loanwords, many having become fully integrated and frequent parts of the general Japanese language. Many fill lexical gaps opened up in the Meiji period with Japan’ s efforts to modernise and globalise (e.g. エンジン, enjin, engine), while others sit alongside semantic near-equivalent terms in the Sino-Japanese lexicon, and fulfil more pragmatic purposes within the language (e.g. ピー チ pīchi, peach, with its semantic near-equivalent 桃, momo, peach). In the former case, the words have been given the label ‘catachrestic innovations’, meaning loanwords which “introduce a new concept into the language” (Onysko&Winter-Froemel, 2011, p. 1555). In the latter case, they are known as ‘non-catachrestic innovations, or loanwords “characterized by the existence of a semantic near-equivalent” (2011, p. 1555).