Katakana Analysis

Words such as チョコレートケーキ and ラブストーリー are written in Katakana because they give a more sophisticated feeling to the sentence. Also when everything else is written in Hirigana and Kanji, the Katakana stands out and makes an emphasis on those words in the sentence. The eye is quickly attracted to the Katakana words which makes the reader get a glimpse about what the paragraph will be about. These words catches the reader's attention and makes people want to read more. Foreign words are also loaned from other countries because there are no such words in Japanese. Therefore the words are written in Katakana in order to express the foreign word so that Japanese people can read it.
Different textbooks explain Katakana in different ways because there are many reasons why Katakana is used. Minna no Nihongo, Nakama, and Genki explain only one aspect which is that the Katakana words are used for foregin names and loan words. Genki even explains the appearance of Katakana which involves many straight lines rather than curves. Yookoso and Japanese for Busy People shows all the ways Katakana is used for such as loan words, onomatopoeic words, and words for emphasis. Lastly the grammar textbook written by Wako Tawa discusses the different types of writing systems in Japanese: hirigana, katakana, and kanji. They explain that these hirigana expresses most of the words but the other types help to explain it further. Katakana is very importanat in Japanese because it is used for many functions.

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