Essays about: "Wago"
Found 3 essays containing the word Wago.
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1. An analysis of wago/kango predominance in Swedish students’ Japanese vocabulary
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the lexical type predominance between Japanese-based wago and Chinese-based kango within the vocabulary of Swedish learners of Japanese, comparing those who have studied in Japan and those who have not. The translation task was structured to ask participants to fill in suitable translations in the blank for the pronunciation of Japanese words based on the meaning of a corresponding Swedish word. READ MORE
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2. Are Loanwords Trendier? : A Qualitative Corpus Analysis on Adjective Collocations of English Loanword Nouns and their Native or Sino Japanese Pairs in the Japanese Language
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : To analyse the behaviour of English loanwords in the Japanese language using corpus analysis is a relatively new field of research. The aim of this thesis is to add to this emergent field by attempting to discover if there are any differences in how English loanword nouns and their native Japanese/Sino-Japanese near synonym pairs are used in contemporary written Japanese. READ MORE
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3. Song images and linguistic components in Japanese: analysis of the lyrics in AKB48 songs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This thesis is about the song image and linguistic components of the popular female Japanese idol group AKB48. As a first step, six typical AKB48 songs that can be classed either as SOFT and HARD images according to the text were chosen. Thereafter a linguistic analysis was carried out using three parameters (1) yakuwarigo i.e. READ MORE
