Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2015 Being Japanese in English: The oS cial and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese Shalina Omar Scripps College Recommended Citation Omar, Shalina, "Being Japanese in English: The ocS ial and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 620. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/620 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BEING JAPANESE IN ENGLISH: THE SOCIAL AND FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN JAPANESE by SHALINA OMAR SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE And The Department Of Linguistics And Cognitive Science At Pomona College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts PROFESSOR CARMEN FOUGHT PROFESSOR ALAN HARTLEY PROFESSOR MEREDITH LANDMAN APRIL 27, 2015 The Social and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese 2 The Social and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank my thesis advisor Professor Carmen Fought for her constant encouragement and moral support whenever I doubted my project or myself. To Professor Mike Diercks for reminding all of us that we are capable, intelligent, and competent. To my friends and colleagues who have kept me sane in times of stress and kept me company during late thesis nights in the Ling Lounge. I am forever grateful to have the support of such wonderful people.