Language Life in Japan (eBook, PDF)

Transformations and Prospects
Redaktion: Heinrich, Patrick; Galan, Christian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how linguistic diversity in Japan, and indeed recognition of this phenomenon, presents a wide range of sociolinguistic challenges and opportunities in fundamental institutions such as schools, in cultural patterns and in social behaviours and attitudes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136935947
• Artikelnr.: 42510134

Autorenporträt

Patrick Heinrich is Professor at Dokkyo University, Japan. Christian Galan is Professor at the University of Toulouse-le Mirail/Center of Japanese Studies (INALCO, Paris), France.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Florian Coulmas Preface 1. Modern and late modern perspectives on
language life in Japan Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan 2. Language
rights in Japan: what is it good for? Goro Christoph Kimura 3. Difficulties
of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa Patrick Heinrich 4.
The emerging borderless community in the local radio in Uchinaa Yuko Sugita
5. Out of this world, in this world, or both? The Japanese school at the
threshold Christian Galan 6. Japan's literacy myth and its social functions
Hitoshi Yamashita 7. Standardization and de-standardization processes in
spoken Japanese Fumio Inoue 8. Constraints on language use in public
broadcasting Takehiro Shioda 9. Technology and writing system in Japan
Nanette Gottlieb 10. Modernity rewritten: linguistic landscaping in Tokyo
Peter Backhaus 11. Language, power and politeness in business meetings in
Japan Hiromasa Tanaka and Aya Sugiyama 12. Japanese as an international
language Tessa Carroll 13. Prospects and prerequisites for a Japanese third
way policy Takao Katsuragi Bibliography