Publications

Publication details [#48771]

Tranter, Nicolas. 2008. Nonconventional script choice in Japan. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2008 (192) : 133–151.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

fiction1 | language contact | script | spoken language | youth

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the complexity of Japanese writing, with script and spoken language choice, and with nonconventional script choice in e.g. youth writing and popular fiction.