Pancakes Stuffed with Sweet Bean Paste: Food-Related Lexical Borrowings as Indicators of the Intensity of Language Contact in the Pacific
Pancakes Stuffed with Sweet Bean Paste: Food-Related Lexical Borrowings as Indicators of the Intensity of Language Contact in the Pacific
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甜豆沙煎饼：与食品相关的词汇借用作为太平洋地区语言接触强度的指标
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10.1007/978-3-030-11153-3_6
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2019
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D. Britain
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Kazuko Matsumoto;D. Britain
鉴于语言接触的强度和借词的语言水平之间的密切关系，我们认为，考察与食物有关的外来词的分布和整合可以帮助我们洞察土著语言和殖民地语言之间接触的文化强度。我们认为，外国饮食文化的采用和本土化以及与之相伴的词汇是密切接触的迹象，当接触更短暂时，这种接触的可能性较小。为了证明这一点，我们考察了过去130年来与西密克罗尼西亚的帕劳语接触的四种殖民语言--西班牙语、德语、日语和英语--中与食物有关的借词。虽然美国对帕劳的统治(1945至1994年及以后)是最近的一次，在寿命方面远远超过了其他国家，但日本殖民时期(1914-1945)见证了殖民定居者与当地帕劳人之间更密集、更亲密、更密切的接触。因此，尽管日本的直接统治时期在70多年前就结束了，但与食物有关的、范围更广的日语词汇和其他具有重要文化意义的词汇在帕劳语中的使用数量和范围都超过了其他任何语言。
Given the strong relationship between the strength of language contact and the linguistic level of borrowings , we argue here that examining the distribution and integration of food-related loanwords can provide insight into the cultural intensity of the contact between indigenous and colonial languages . We argue that the adoption and indigenisation of a foreign food culture and the lexemes that accompany it are signs of intense contact, and are less likely when contact is more fleeting. In order to demonstrate this, we examine food-related borrowings from four colonial languages —Spanish, German, Japanese and English—that have come into contact with the Palauan language of Western Micronesia over the past 130 years. While American rule over Palau (1945 to 1994 and beyond) was the most recent and has far exceeded the others in terms of longevity, the Japanese colonial period (1914–1945) saw much more intensive, intimate, closer contact between colonial settlers and local Palauans. This has resulted in the adoption and adaptation into Palauan of a larger number and a wider-range of food-related and other culturally important terms from Japanese than from any other language , despite the fact that the period of direct Japanese rule ended over 70 years ago.