| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: Portable language and the jouissance of identities |
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Chapter 1 Metroethnicity And Cool: A Theory Of Lifestyle Identities |
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The lightness of being ethnic: The creative acquirement' of multiple meanings |
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7 | (3) |
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Cool: A swerving trajectory |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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The texture of language: Slang du jour |
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13 | (1) |
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Empires of cool: Bilingualism and language learning |
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14 | (1) |
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Ethnic reconstruction: Hybridities |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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The problems of ethnic romance |
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17 | (1) |
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Metroethnicity: Decentering ethnicity |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (4) |
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Chapter 2 Mocknolect: Language And Identity Imitation |
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23 | (14) |
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23 | (1) |
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"Je rial plus ose ouvrir la bouche" (I no longer dare open my mouth) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (1) |
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Yellow English and Asian English |
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28 | (1) |
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Japanese mocknolect in war and peace |
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28 | (2) |
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Japanese mocknolect in film: Karate Kid |
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30 | (2) |
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The delicate aesthetic and the psycho absurd |
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32 | (2) |
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The polyvalency of Japanese mocknolect |
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34 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 The Linguistic Identity Of Place: Where Things Are, Where We Are |
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37 | (12) |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (1) |
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Place-names and continuity |
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39 | (1) |
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Place names and the person: Our interior world |
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40 | (3) |
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Utamakura: Poetic place-names |
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43 | (1) |
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Signs of identity: Where things are, where we are |
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44 | (1) |
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Demonyms: Identifying people of a place |
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45 | (3) |
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Metonymy. No more Hiroshimas!! |
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48 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Married Names: Continuous Identities And Social Conflict |
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49 | (14) |
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The semiotics of continuous identity |
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49 | (1) |
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Power, hierarchy and expediency |
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50 | (1) |
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"This must be some import from Chicago" |
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51 | (4) |
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Rationale for name retention |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Fufu Bessei vs Fufu Dosei (`separate' vs `same' married names) |
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57 | (3) |
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History of the Fufu Bessei movement |
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60 | (1) |
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Rationale for name change |
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60 | (1) |
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Structural transformations |
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61 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 "Hirosima! Hiroshima! We All Fall Down!!" The Speech Fellowship Of Children |
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63 | (12) |
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The speech fellowship of children |
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63 | (2) |
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Warabe Uta, children's song and language games |
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65 | (3) |
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68 | (3) |
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Dialect and place in children's language life |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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Chapter 6 Multilingual Japan: Word Borrowers Of The Chuo Line |
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75 | (16) |
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75 | (3) |
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Going the other way: Japanese loanwords in Chinese |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (4) |
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A survey of language awareness of borrowing |
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85 | (7) |
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Gairaigo: Complex architecture |
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Chapter 7 Discriminatory Language, Taboo And Language Hygiene |
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91 | (1) |
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The Meiji period and standardization |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (3) |
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Racist tropes and pronouns of discrimination |
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98 | (4) |
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The dangerous game of language and social groups |
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102 | (1) |
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Chapter 8 Ainu And The Celtic Languages: Comparing Vitality And Endangerment |
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103 | (22) |
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Metroethnicity and cool Celtic |
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103 | (2) |
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Multilingualism in Japan and the British Isles |
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105 | (1) |
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The beginnings of revival: Ainu and the Celtic languages |
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106 | (1) |
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A sociological theory of `Reversing Language Shift' (RLS) |
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107 | (2) |
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From rocking chair languages to intergenerational oracy |
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109 | (9) |
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Politics and struggle: It ain't easy |
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118 | (4) |
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Expectations and over-estimations |
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122 | (1) |
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The Ainu language situation: Celtic and other European connections |
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123 | (2) |
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Chapter 9 The Sanka And Sanshokotoba: Lost Argot Of Mountain Itinerants |
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125 | (14) |
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125 | (1) |
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Sanka: An extinct language community |
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126 | (1) |
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Ethnonym: From India to Oita |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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Sanshokotoba: The Sanka language |
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130 | (1) |
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Sanshokotoba (Secret language) |
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131 | (3) |
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Secret language: Sanshokotoba and shirube |
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134 | (1) |
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Speech taboo and prohibitions |
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135 | (1) |
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Postscript on `Orphan Languages' of 20th Century Asia |
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135 | (4) |
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Chapter 10 Cool Rules: Language Loyalty, Translation And Ironic Detachment |
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139 | (14) |
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Hyphenated people, Levi jeans |
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139 | (2) |
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Ethnicity in quotation marks |
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141 | (1) |
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Minorities. Bring on the icons |
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141 | (2) |
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Race, translation and cool |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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Ironic detachment and empowerment |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (3) |
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Chapter 11 A Sociophonetics Of The Japanese Irl: Mocknolect And Variation |
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153 | (12) |
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153 | (1) |
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Pronunciation of Irl in the world's languages |
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154 | (1) |
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The sociophonetics of the Japanese Irl |
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155 | (3) |
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Racialised phonetics and Asian identity |
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158 | (1) |
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Varieties of the Japanese Irl |
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159 | (4) |
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163 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Language Difficulty And Difficult Languages |
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165 | (18) |
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The easy and the difficult |
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165 | (1) |
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Five meanings of difficulty |
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165 | (1) |
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Difficulty as cultural capital |
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166 | (1) |
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Art, music and difficulty |
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167 | (1) |
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Languages near, languages remote |
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168 | (1) |
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The remote and the difficult |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (2) |
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A survey of Japanese attitudes towards language difficulty |
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172 | (2) |
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FDLs: `Fiercely Difficulty Languages': The view from schools |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (3) |
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178 | (2) |
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A note on simplified language: A solution for the difficult? |
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180 | (1) |
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181 | (2) |
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Chapter 13 Slang And Modernity: Innovation And Controversy About Language |
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183 | (12) |
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Slang and language innovation |
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183 | (2) |
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Japanese slang in history |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (2) |
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Mechanisms of youth slang |
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189 | (2) |
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The leader of the pack: `Language boss' |
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191 | (1) |
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The Irl deletion controversy |
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192 | (3) |
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Chapter 14 Names And Nicknames: Personal Recognition, Solidarity And Social Management |
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195 | (14) |
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Names: The confluence of past and present |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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Utamakura: Poetic place-names |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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The structure of nicknames |
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203 | (2) |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (1) |
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Appendix. List of names and nicknames |
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206 | (3) |
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Chapter 15 Ethnic Toponomy In Tokyo: Folklinguistics And Multilingualism |
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209 | (12) |
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209 | (1) |
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Multilingualism and place-name education |
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209 | (2) |
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Place-names laws in Colonial Hokkaido |
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211 | (1) |
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Place-names in the Kanto region |
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212 | (1) |
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Ainu place-names in the Kanto region |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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216 | (5) |
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Naming and renaming in the Meiji Period |
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221 | (1) |
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Place-names, folklore and identity |
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221 | (1) |
| References |
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221 | (16) |
| Index |
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Lisainfo e-raamatute kohta