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There are also three ways in which katakana is used for writing Japanese words:1 to make words stand out, for example, in advertising: トヨタ (Toyota)2 to classify species of plants and animals, for example in botanical gardens3 to write onomatopoeic words
2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, page 31