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Title: Impact of Globalization on Japanese Language and Culture


1
Impact of Globalization on Japanese Language and
Culture
  • Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2002
  • Norio Ota
  • York University

2
Impact on Culture and Society
  • Judicial system reform
  • Empowerment, accountability, informed consent
  • Psychological analysis healing,
    co-dependency
  • Aging, fixed contribution pension, portability of
    pension and tax reform
  • Japan as a multi-cultural and multi-racial nation
  • Impact on education
  • Later marriage, fewer children and divorce
  • Political correctness
  • Restructuring, salary reduction, unemployment and
    homeless
  • Asian Free Trade Zone China, Korea and ASEAN ?

3
Impact on LanguageSociolinguistic and pragmatic
changes
  • Confrontational and aggressive approach
  • From agreement-seeking to agreement-demanding
  • Other changes in communication strategies more
  • Direct, Assertive
  • Argumentative, Provocative, Challenging,
    Competitive
  • Egalitarian gender equal, rank equal
  • Self-righteous, Non-apologetic

4
Impact on LanguageNew usage in idiomaticity
  • iken o suri-awaseru rub opinions together
  • mongon statement
  • hanzai ga okonawareta a crime was committed
  • denchuu to gekitotsu crash with an electric
    pole (lit.)
  • boosoo-zoku ga tsudou chuusha-joo a parking lot
    where mortorcycle gangs get together
  • shashin o totta mikka-mae ni Osore-san ni itta.
    He went to Mt. Osore three days before the photo
    was taken.
  • saikin toku ni ninki ni natte it has become
    popular recently

5
Impact on LanguageLoan words
  • fuurigan-taisaku (anti-)hooligan measures
  • seegi no hiiroo champion (hero) of justice
  • koosoku-dooro-dai-kurasshu a big crash on a
    freeway
  • honne-tooku heart-to-heart talk
  • riiku-suru to leak
  • happii-raifu happy life
  • akushidento accident
  • doggu-fuudo dog food
  • bureeku-suru to get a break
  • rajio ? reidio radio
  • enerugii ? enajii energy
  • hoomuresu homeless
  • reipu rape
  • sutoriito-chirudoren street children

6
Japan as an agent of globalization
  • East Asia and Southeast Asia Doraemon , Hello
    Kitty, Tare-Panda, Pokemon
  • North America and West Sailor Moon ,
    Pokemon, Nomo, Ichiro

7
References
  • ???? ?????????????????????? ?? 1998?4?? 69-81
    ????
  • Iwabuchi, Koichi (2001) Japan, Globalization,
    and Cultural Imperialism, paper presented at
    ICAS2
  • Conference, Berlin.
  • Leung, Lisa (2001) Gendering Transnationalism
    Cultural politics of intra-East Asian media
  • consumption, paper presented at ICAS2
    Conference, Berlin.
  • Ota, Norio (1995) 'Cross-Cultural Communication
    through Japanese Communicating with Japan
  • through high school education', in D.J. Dicks
    (ed.) Communicating with Japan
  • Images Past, Present and Future - An
    Interdisciplinary Anthology, Montreal
    Concordia University, 1995, 108-130.
  • __________ (1999) Culture in Language Context,
    JSAC web publication, 12th Annual Conference
    of the Japan Studies Association of Canada,
    McGill University, Montreal.
  • __________ (2000) Coping with sociolinguistic
    and pragmatic changes in TJFL, 13th Annual
  • Conference of the Japan Studies Association of
    Canada, University of British Columbia.
  • ?????????????????????????? 2001?7?? 141-160
    ????
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