BARRS, Keith    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Date	2017/07/18
Presentation Theme	Examining the Functions of Loanwords: The Case of English Loanwords in Japanese
Conference	IPrA 15th International Pragmatics Conference
Promoters	IPrA International Pragmatics Association
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Details	This presentation first overviews the problem inherent in the traditional approach of categorising loanwords, underpinned by a discussion of the theoretical notions of distributional characteristics and distributional similarities, and then discusses the most prominent findings and implications. Details will be given of the jpTenTen11 corpus used for the analysis, the methodology involved in analysing the grammatical relationships of a large set of English loanwords in Japanese, and the data visualisation software used for investigating patterns in the data.