Language and Citizenship in Japan

Herausgeber: Gottlieb, Nanette

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection investigates the changing relationship between language and citizenship in Japan today through an examination of key themes relating both to newcomers and to older groups of citizens whose language practices have been shaped by historical forces. Adopting an array of theoretical and methodological approaches ranging from document-based to empirical research and highlighting the increasingly fluid relationship of language to citizenship in a contemporary globalising society, contributors problematise the notion of "one country, one culture, and one language" which has shaped the discourse on identity and citizenship. The notion of citizenship itself is also examined in the book, with discussion of both the increasingly advocated concept of local citizenship and also a wider notion of cultural citizenship linked to the status of local, national, and international languages within Japan.

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This book investigates the changing relationship between language and citizenship in contemporary Japan. The essays collected here discuss the manner in which linguistic diversity calls into question the traditional view of a Japanese citizen as a first-language speaker of Japanese, and what the relationship between language and citizenship might henceforth be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415897228
• ISBN-10: 041589722X
• Artikelnr.: 33255372

Autorenporträt

Nanette Gottlieb is Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 2. After
homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan
Patrick Heinrich 3. 'It's better if they speak broken Japanese': Language
as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? Chris Burgess 4.
Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government
schools Kaori H. Okano 5. Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship
in Japan Ikuo Kawakami 6. Remedial language education and citizenship:
Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project Robert Moorehead 7. Gender
capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language
acquisition and education for foreign children Genaro Castro-Vázquez 8.
Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese
Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan Ernani
Oda 9. Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal
courts
Ikuko Nakane 10. English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in
the Ogasawara Islands David Chapman and Daniel Long 11. Multilingual or
Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites Tessa
Carroll