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Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136935940 |
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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.
Author | : Shigeko Okamoto |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107072263 |
Download The Social Life of the Japanese Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan.
Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012-02-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1847696597 |
Download The Making of Monolingual Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.
Author | : Naoko Takemaru |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786456108 |
Download Women in the Language and Society of Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.
Author | : Nanette Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2005-02-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521532846 |
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Language and Society in Japan deals with issues important to an understanding of language in Japan today, among them multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. It is organised around the theme of language and identity, in particular how language is used to construct national, international and personal identities. Contrary to popular stereotypes, Japanese is far from the only language used in Japan, and does not function in a vacuum, but comes with its own particular cultural implications. Language has played an important role in Japan's cultural and foreign policies, and language issues are intimately connected both with technological advance and with minority group experiences. Nanette Gottlieb is a leading authority in this field. Her book builds on and develops her previous work, and promises to be essential reading for students, scholars, and all those wishing to understand the role played by language in Japanese society.
Author | : Christopher Joby |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004438653 |
Download The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan, which had a profound effect on Japan’s language, society and culture.
Author | : Kayoko Hashimoto |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-07-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9811050864 |
Download Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia. Within Japanese culture itself, the promotion of language has been an area of ambivalence. This interdisciplinary book looks across the fields of language policy, language teaching, socio-linguistics, cultural studies and history to identify the links between Japan’s language policies and broader social, economic and political processes. It examines the challenges that undermine Japan’s potential soft power by identifying a gap between the “official Japan” portrayed by the Japanese government and the “cultural Japan” that foreigners perceive. It also reveals historical continuity in the way Japanese language is perceived and promoted by policy makers and how the current practices of Japanese language teaching in Asian countries have been shaped within the framework of “international exchange”, which has been a key concept in Japanese foreign policies since the 1970s. It particularly considers the concept of ‘Cool Japan’ as a symbol of Japan’s interpretation of its cultural power and offers a thoughtful assessment of the future of Japanese as a form of soft power in Asia as the country prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Author | : Miyako Inoue |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006-04-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520245857 |
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"Inoue has accomplished an extraordinary task, which is without precedent in the East Asian Fields. To my knowledge, no author has ever demonstrated as persuasively as she does that the issues concerning women's Japanese can be explored in such an innovative, engaging way. Vicarious Language brilliantly displays how effectively Foucauldian archaeology can be introduced to the study of gender and language, and undermines any of the previous studies in English of what is erroneously referred to as the unique feature of the Japanese language. This is a superb model of engaged scholarship."—Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse "Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural insight. She explores the texture of Japanese modernity, its national rituals and social practices, by way of a sustained, semiotic analysis of womens' language—the language of self-expression that women use in intimate and institutional contexts, and the language used to define the gendered roles assigned to women within the powers of patriarchy. Her sources range widely from scholarly studies to the 'popular opinion' fostered by newspapers and advertisements; her excellent ethnography investigates the strategies of institutions and organisations, while inquiring into the politics and poetics of everyday life; her analytic method is, at once, conceptually sophisticated and textually intensive. This is a work that allows you to participate in the lifeworld of the Japanese language, at the illuminating moment when gender relations are writ large in the social syntax of national life. This is a book that will make a lasting impression on a range of disciplines."—Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F.Rothenberg Professor, Harvard University
Author | : Osamu Mizutani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1981-12 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Download Japanese: The Spoken Language in Japanese Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nanette Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139504797 |
Download Language Policy in Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.