34.1511, FYI: "Foreign Elements: Identity and Hybridity in Japanese Writing Practices" (ft. Prof. Peter BACKHAUS)

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Subject: 34.1511, FYI: "Foreign Elements: Identity and Hybridity in Japanese Writing Practices" (ft. Prof. Peter BACKHAUS)

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Date: 15-May-2023
From: Maria  Telegina [mstelegina at gmail.com]
Subject: "Foreign Elements: Identity and Hybridity in Japanese Writing Practices" (ft. Prof. Peter BACKHAUS)

Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
Language and Identity Workshop Series
Workshop IV.  Language in Public Space: Identity and the Urban
Environment
Keynote Lecture
Date: Monday, 29 May 2023, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (JST)
Location: Zoom

Abstract:

This talk deals with two interrelated phenomena in Japanese writing
practices. The first one, which I will refer to as “the foreign within
Japanese,” is about the integration of loanwords into the Japanese
writing system. As I will show, this development has not only resulted
in a significant extension of possible katakana combinations (e.g.,
パーティー), but also entailed other script choice options, most notably
loanwords in hiragana (ぱーてぃ) and, perhaps obviously, loanwords
unaltered in roman alphabet (“Party”).
The second practice is the romanization of Japanese vocabulary, a
phenomenon I will call “Japanese within the foreign.” Apart from the
two major systems, Kunrei and Hepburn, it is becoming increasingly
popular to apply rules derived from neither system, but modelled after
English orthographic principles. Particularly in the commercial
domain, examples such as the replacement of “k” by “c” (“cocoro” for
kokoro) or the deletion of silent vowels (“alc” for aruku) are now a
common sight.
I will argue that the two phenomena described here are in fact
complementary, contributing to an ever increasing hybridity that keeps
pushing the boundaries between language and script, and between what
is native and what is foreign.

For more information including registration:
https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/ai1ec_event/9391/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

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