A collection of chapters analyzing the relationship between the English and Japanese in the context of contemporary Japan, Stanlaw's book presents a wide variety of perspectives on language contact. It is written principally for researchers on international varieties of English, although in this case "Japanese English" is quite different from Singapore English or Indian English. It presents a broad, if not necessarily unified view of how English has been adapted by principally Japanese speakers.
Good for: Contact Linguists, World English researchers, those looking for a deeper understanding of "Japanglish"
Not so good for: Anime enthusiasts
Final Verdict: This book is a bit of a mixed bag. It has some highly technical material, as well as the sort of textual analysis that will appeal more to the humanities crowd. The eclectic nature of its contents will inevitably mean that everyone will find a chapter that interests them, and chapters they will skim over.
A close examination of the notes will reveal why this book feels like a collection of random papers- it seems to have been put together from a variety of the author's publications. The author lives up to his promise of a broad perspective: looking at not only at phonology and morphology, but also "cognitive, symbolic, semiotic, and ethnological framework." Although Stanlaw attempts to tie together chapters of morphology, racial identity, music and food together, there is no clearly articulated framework that relates these different approaches.
For me book becomes less interesting when it strays from a strict, technical rigor. Chapter eleven, for instance, argues that Japanese color words are be replaced by foreign loans in the reverse order in which they were developed (via the color hierarchy). On the other hand, the poetics of Japanese pop signs required both more knowledge and interest in JPop than I had to give it. I suspect other readers would feel the opposite. In either case, there is something for everyone to like, and something somebody will hate.
That having been said, every chapter is well thought out and presented. In the end, I would advise carefully browsing the table of contents before purchasing. If there's one or two chapters that don't get you fired up, its probably still worth it. If there's only one or two chapters that spark your interest, you will be better served finding a more narrowly focused work on those topics.
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