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by Naoko Hosokawa (Author)
Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language.
Author Biography
Naoko Hosokawa is a postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. After obtaining a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, she worked at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), the European University Institute, as well as the University of Strasbourg, and took the current position in 2020. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and identity through the examination of media discourse. Her recent publications include "From reality to discourse: Analysis of the 'refugee' metaphor in the Japanese news media" in Journal of Multicultural Discourses as well as "The New Wild: Thinking Linguistic Globalization through the Ecology of Species" in The Manifold Nature of Bilingual Education.
