The Use of English Loanwords in Question-Answer Sequences of Question Time in the Japanese Parliament
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2022-04-24
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This paper analyzes the use of English loanwords in question-answer sequences of
Question Time (QT) in the Japanese Parliament. Research on English loanwords has been done
in several areas, however, none has been conducted in political settings. QT is a dyadic political
debate between prime ministers and other Parliament members in the Diet of Japan. I will
describe how their lexical choices of English loanwords orient towards certain institutional goals,
and how the choices are aligned with dimensions of questioning and answering. Through this
analysis, I conclude that English loanwords can function as not only the part of political
questions in a formal and professional way to elicit a clear answer but also a technical term to
construct a question and highlight a political argument in the process of questioning. In addition,
they are also used to diminish negative images of political claims, and also form more favorable
grounds in order to display political arguments in the process of answering. It can be said that
lexical choices of English loanwords in a question sequence and following answer sequence are
deeply interrelated to each other.
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