Publications

Publication details [#29281]

Inoue, Kyoko. 1991. MacArthur´s Japanese constitution: A linguistic and cultural study of its making. University of Chicago Press.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication breakdown | crosscultural communication | language and culture | political discussion | political system
Language as a subject
English, American | Japanese

Annotation

This linguistic and cultural study of the making of the Japanese constitution, focuses on the discrepancy, i.e. the crosslinguistic and crosscultural ambiguities, between the American draft and interpretation and the Japanese interpretation and translation.

Reviewed by

Saint-Jacques, Bernard. 1992. Review of $MacArthur´s Japanese constitution: A linguistic and cultural study of its making.