LOANWORDS IN BARACK OBAMA'S INAUGURAL SPEECH

Exploring Rhetorical-Discursive Moves in Hassan Rouhani’s Inaugural Speech: A Eulogy for Moderation

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...

The Interpersonal Metafunction Analysis of Barack Obama's Victory Speech

This study has promising implications for speeches as follows: (1) Positive declarative clauses are recommended to convey information and convince the audiences with positive facts. (2) Modal verbal operators with high modal commitment can show the addresser’s firm determination to finish tasks and build up the addresser’s authority. (3) The frequent applications of “we” and “we”-“you”-“we” pat...

Do Native-language Loanwords Affect Second-language Speech Perception?

Japanese has many loanwords from English that have different syllable structure from the source words, e.g., /sutoresu/ from English stress. To investigate whether the abundance of such familiar loanwords interferes with accurate perception of the English source words, native Japanese listeners were asked to count syllables in spoken English words that varied in the degree to which familiar loa...

Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic

English loanwords in Japanese

As a result of the economic, political and cultural influence of Britain and the US, and the emergence of English as an international language, many world languages have absorbed loanwords from English, especially during the twentieth century. Japanese contains thousands of such borrowings, many of which are well-established and in universal use. A domestic phonetic script is available to both ...