Impact of Globalization on Japanese Language and Culture

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Impact of Globalization on Japanese Language and
Culture

• Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2002
• Norio Ota
• York University

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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 ?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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References

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• 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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