Tokyo Night Fever : A study of English code-switching in Japanese 1970s & 1980s city pop
(2020) JAPK11 20201Japanese Studies
- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to add further knowledge regarding the mixing of languages (code-switching) in Japanese popular music from the 1970s and 1980s. The genre of focus is the newly resurfaced musical style city-pop. Analysis of functional elements as well as a quantitative examination of three established code-switching types was made. Comparisons of the code-switching construction in song lyrics between the respective decades (1970s, 1980s) constitute a focal point. From the results, it could be seen that the 1980s lyrics contained the most amount of code-switches and that functions of the switches proved to be many.
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- author
- Östlie, Kevin LU
- supervisor
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- Axel Svahn LU
- organization
- course
- JAPK11 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- code-switching, code-mixing, city-pop, Japanese, language study, music, disco, soft rock, funk, 1970s, 1980s
- language
- English
- additional info
- This thesis could not have been possible without the help of my supervisor who guided me through the process of writing an academic text. I equally want to thank the wonderful people who helped me with the translations of lyrics needed to publish this paper.
- id
- 9031216
- date added to LUP
- 2020-10-22 08:32:29
- date last changed
- 2020-10-22 08:32:29
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