ABSTRACT

This article proposes a ‘Concentric Circles Model’ (CCM) for a diglossic ‘balancing’ of both prescriptivist and descriptivist concerns regarding English usage in Japan. The model draws on theories of lexical priming and cultural intelligence, and characterises the construct of ‘Japanese English’ as inseparable from the speaker’s prior linguistic, societal and cultural experiences. Codification is an important step towards the legitimisation of a non-native variety such as Japanese English; at the same time, the dictionary has become a more fluid notion that is characterised by both ‘competitive’ and ‘cooperative’ lexicography. The article also demonstrates the use of the corpus-based methodology to enrich the lexical content of dictionary entries encapsulated by the CCM. In addition, a resource such as the Global Web-based Corpus of English (GloWbE) is used to demonstrate a bright future in which internal and external norms move away from the current adherence to monolingual standard English to one that represents broad agreement in terms of empirical frequencies of usage across varieties of English.

摘要

本文提出了一种“同心圆模型”（CCM），以解决日本对英语使用方面的说明性和描述性问题的过分“平衡”。该模型借鉴了词汇启动和文化智能的理论，并将“日语英语”的构建与说话者先前的语言，社会和文化经验密不可分。编纂是迈向诸如日本英语之类的非本地品种合法化的重要一步；同时，该词典已成为更具流动性的概念，以“竞争性”和“合作性”词典学为特征。本文还演示了基于语料库的方法的使用，以丰富CCM封装的词典条目的词汇内容。此外，