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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden Japanese language.
1. The effects of extramural language : Relationships between engagement in Japanese language activities and general Japanese language proficiency
Sammanfattning : Many L2 learners believe they learn their target language by using it extramurally, i.e. outside the classroom. This topic, language learning as a result of engagement in L2 use, has garnered increased attention in the last decade. LÄS MER
2. Deictic Demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish : First and Third Language Perspectives
Sammanfattning : The goal of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, it investigates the actual, native use of spatial-deictic demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. LÄS MER
3. The Japanese Imperative
Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores Japanese imperative constructions from a general linguistic perspective, as well as examining the imperative as a cross-linguistic object of study. On the definitional side, a terminological apparatus for the description and analysis of imperatives and directives is presented. LÄS MER
4. L1 Japanese Attrition and Regaining : Three Case Studies of Two Early Bilingual Children
Sammanfattning : The present study reports three cases of LI Japanese loss and regaining (Shoko 3; 10, HI 5;5 and H2 7;0 at the time the subjects left Japan for non-Japanese environments) by two siblings (one of them was studied twice at two different times) who grew up as Japanese-English bilinguals from birth. It describes the lexical and syntactic changes of the language in details, discerns the nature of the loss, and investigates the relationship between attrition and age and pre-attrition proficiency. LÄS MER
5. Deconstructing Tradition in Japanese Music : A Study of Shakuhachi, Historical Authenticity and Transmission of Tradition
Sammanfattning : In the present study I examine the vertical bamboo flute shakuhachi, as an example of how a tradition can be constructed. There are two main issues: the historical authenticity of the believed origins and development of the shakuhachi tradition, and how the transmission of this tradition is conducted. LÄS MER