Chair of Languages & Cultures @Macquarie_Uni @LanguagesMQ. #Japanese sociolinguist & @Brutalinguist co-host. #日本語 の文字や #メタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
Joined October 2019
- Tweets11.3K
- Following1.9K
- Followers18.2K
- Likes40.5K
New publication out! Check out my article in Gender & Language on how the gender of the speaker effects the translation of their vulgarities into Japanese, analyzing vulgarity translation in between the subs & dubs of The Boys and Russian Doll.
utppublishing.com/doi/10.313…
Not fully true! Borrowings from Western languages were common in Meiji, to the extent that the WW2 wartime government and its predecessors tried to crack down on it. This was a failure, as low literacy lead to soldiers unable to read kanji compounds, with the military reverting.
Japan Forum's special issue on katakana in Japanese is out @ tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/3…
Check out my (OPEN ACCESS) contribution on anti-katakana discourse @ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.
New article out, and Open Access! Check out my co-authored piece with Dr. Mie Hiramoto analyzing intimate hair removal advertisements aimed at Japanese men, and contrasting this with Japanese online discourse around men's grooming practices!
brill.com/view/journals/jocp…
N4 Kanji practice book is done! You can download it here:
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…
It's got kanji! It's got words you can write in kanji! It's got sentences which awkwardly jam a single kanji into them as many times as possible! It's got an answer key! Enjoy!
Delighted to announce that my second book, Peripheral Linguistic Brutality (co-authored with Dr. Jess Kruk) is coming out via University of Hawai'i Press in October of this year! This book has been like 5 months of my life, and I can't wait for you to all be able to read it.
