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Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language

This paper discusses how Chinese and Japanese-inspired culinary terms have become part of the English language of food. It investigates the path of culinary terms into popular usage using Google Ngram, and Google Trends. It also takes an in-depth look at social media to discover the impact such te...

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Main Authors: Kiaer, Jieun, Calway, Niamh, Ahn, Hyejeong
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18033/1/46974-167681-1-PB.pdf
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https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1423
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spelling my-ukm.journal.180332022-02-13T00:18:58Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18033/ Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language Kiaer, Jieun Calway, Niamh Ahn, Hyejeong This paper discusses how Chinese and Japanese-inspired culinary terms have become part of the English language of food. It investigates the path of culinary terms into popular usage using Google Ngram, and Google Trends. It also takes an in-depth look at social media to discover the impact such technology has on the adoption of Asian culinary terms and further investigates this phenomenon by conducting a survey of 297 L1 and L2 English speakers, mainly from the United Kingdom. By selecting three specific kinds of culinary terms (tea words, dumpling words, and Yoshoku words), this paper showcases the creation of the forms and meanings of these culinary terms and documents their transnational journey to become part of English. The authors argue that the influence of social media, which has little linguistic authority, has made the process of the adoption of new words much more rapid, popularising their use and enabling diversity in their forms more than was ever previously possible. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18033/1/46974-167681-1-PB.pdf Kiaer, Jieun and Calway, Niamh and Ahn, Hyejeong (2021) Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 27 (3). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1423
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description This paper discusses how Chinese and Japanese-inspired culinary terms have become part of the English language of food. It investigates the path of culinary terms into popular usage using Google Ngram, and Google Trends. It also takes an in-depth look at social media to discover the impact such technology has on the adoption of Asian culinary terms and further investigates this phenomenon by conducting a survey of 297 L1 and L2 English speakers, mainly from the United Kingdom. By selecting three specific kinds of culinary terms (tea words, dumpling words, and Yoshoku words), this paper showcases the creation of the forms and meanings of these culinary terms and documents their transnational journey to become part of English. The authors argue that the influence of social media, which has little linguistic authority, has made the process of the adoption of new words much more rapid, popularising their use and enabling diversity in their forms more than was ever previously possible.
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author Kiaer, Jieun
Calway, Niamh
Ahn, Hyejeong
spellingShingle Kiaer, Jieun
Calway, Niamh
Ahn, Hyejeong
Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
author_facet Kiaer, Jieun
Calway, Niamh
Ahn, Hyejeong
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title Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
title_short Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
title_full Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
title_fullStr Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
title_full_unstemmed Chinese, Japanese and Korean-inspired culinary words in the English language
title_sort chinese, japanese and korean-inspired culinary words in the english language
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2021
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18033/1/46974-167681-1-PB.pdf
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https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1423
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