Tranter, N. (2009) Graphic loans: East Asia and beyond. Word , 60 (1). pp. 1-37. ISSN 0043-7956
Abstract
The national languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) have made extensive use of a type of linguistic borrowing sometimes referred to as a 'graphic loan'. Such loans have no place in the conventional classification of loans based on Haugen (1950) or Weinreich (1953), and research on loan word theory and phonology generally overlooks them. The classic East Asian phenomenon is discussed and a framework is proposed to describe its mechanism. It is argued that graphic loans are more than just 'spelling pronunciations', because they are a systematic and widespread process, independent of but not inferior to phonological borrowing. The framework is then expanded to cover a range of other cases of borrowing between languages to show that graphic loans are not a uniquely East Asian phenomenon, and therefore need to be considered as a major category of loan.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Word. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Loanwords; Graphic loans; Japanese; Chinese; Korean; Vietnamese |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2015 10:12 |
Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2018 03:06 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00437956.2009.11432591 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00437956.2009.11432591 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77434 |