2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on code-switching by people of Japanese descent living in Hawaii
| Project/Area Number |
23520498
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMADA Megumi 東京学芸大学, 留学生センター, 教授 (50302906)
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| Research Collaborator |
HONDA Masafumi ハワイ大学ヒロ校, Japanese Studies and Linguistics, 准教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 社会言語学 / ハワイ / 日系人 / 日本語 / 英語 / ハワイクレオール / 言語切替え |
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| Research Abstract |
I analyzed how code-switching was used based on the verbal data of people of Japanese descent collected in the city of Hilo, Hawaii, USA. Data analysis by generation revealed a dialectal characteristic in the second and third generations: they used loanwords of function words such as conjunctions and response words on a frequent basis. Additionally, I analyzed the differences between "conversations between those of Japanese descent and the Japanese" and "conversations among those of Japanese descent." The results revealed that Japanese/English code-switching occurred more frequently in "conversations among those of Japanese descent" and that Hawaiian Creole English was used more commonly.
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