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BARRS, Keith
Department Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2017/02 |
| Type | Articles |
| Title | Expected Bilingualism in Monolingual Japanese Communicative Practices |
| Contribution Type | Single-Authored Publication |
| Journal | 広島修大論集 |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | 広島修道大学 |
| Volume, Issue, Pages | LVII(2),pp.103-110 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Details | This article discusses how the quantity, frequency, and integratedness of English-derived vocabulary in the Japanese language suggests that Japanese-speaking monolinguals are actually expected to have a certain degree of Japanese-English bilingual competence in order to achieve success in their Japanese communicative practices. The positioning of these three varieties of English within the Japanese linguistic framework will be examined, with reference to an example taken from the Japanese linguistic landscape of the dynamic interaction of these forms of English. This will then be used to give claim to the idea that regular, everyday monolingual communicative practices within Japanese society are underpinned by a linguistic framework built upon the bilingual interaction of Japanese and English vocabulary. |