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Language Communities in Japan

John C. Maher
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Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198856610

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This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversity, particularly in urban areas, but the true extent of this diversity has often been overlooked. The contributors to this volume provide a new perspective, with detailed accounts of the wide range of languages spoken in different contexts and by different communities across the Japanese archipelago. Each chapter focuses on a specific language community, and systematically explores the history of the variety in Japanese culture and the current sociolinguistic situation. The first part explores the indigenous languages of Japan, including the multiple dialects of Japanese itself and the lesser-known Ryukyan and Ainu languages. Chapters in Part II look at community languages, ranging from the historic minority languages such as Korean and Chinese to the languages spoken by more recent migrant communities, such as Nepali, Filipino, and Persian. The final part examines languages of culture, politics, and modernization, from the use of English in international business and education contexts to the ongoing use of Latin and Sanskrit for religious purposes. The volume sheds new light on Japan's position as an important multilingual and multicultural society, and will be of interest to scholars and students not only of Japanese and sociolinguistics, but of Asian studies and migration studies more widely.

Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan

Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour
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Author : Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
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Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317961895

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Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan by Ikuko Nakane,Emi Otsuji,William S. Armour Pdf

This book explores the transition from the era of internationalization into the era of globalization of Japan by focusing on language and identity as its central themes. By taking an interdisciplinary approach covering education, cultural studies, linguistics and policy-making, the chapters in this book raise certain questions of what constitutes contemporary Japanese culture, Japanese identity and multilingualism and what they mean to local people, including those who do not reside in Japan but are engaged with Japan in some way within the global community. Topics include the role of technology in the spread of Japanese language and culture, hybrid language use in an urban context, the Japanese language as a lingua franca in China, and the identity construction of heritage Japanese language speakers in Australia. The authors do not limit themselves to examining only the Japanese language or the Japanese national/cultural identity, but also explore multilingual practices and multiple/fluid identities in "a transitional Japan." Overall, the book responds to the basic need for better accounts of language and identity of Japan, particularly in the context of increased migration and mobility.

The Languages of Japan

Masayoshi Shibatani
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Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521369185

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The Languages of Japan by Masayoshi Shibatani Pdf

A survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan includes the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English as well as a comprehensive analysis of Japanese linguistics.

Language and Citizenship in Japan

Nanette Gottlieb
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Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136503160

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Language and Citizenship in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: ‘Japanese citizenship’ means ‘Japanese ethnicity,’ which in turn means ‘Japanese as one’s first language.’ Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have been members of the ‘oldcomer’ Chinese and Korean communities, born and raised in Japan. But this is changing: the last three decades have seen an influx of ‘newcomer’ economic migrants from a wide range of countries, many of whom choose to stay. The likelihood that they will apply for citizenship, to access the benefits it confers, means that citizenship and ethnicity can no longer be assumed to be synonyms in Japan. This is an important change for national discourse on cohesive communities. This book’s chapters discuss discourses, educational practices, and local linguistic practices which call into question the accepted view of the language-citizenship nexus in lived contexts of both existing Japanese citizens and potential future citizens. Through an examination of key themes relating both to newcomers and to an older group of citizens whose language practices have been shaped by historical forces, these essays highlight the fluid relationship of language and citizenship in the Japanese context.

The Monolingual Situation in Japan. The Government's Struggle to Keep Minority Languages Alive

Friederike Börner
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Author : Friederike Börner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668210455

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The Monolingual Situation in Japan. The Government's Struggle to Keep Minority Languages Alive by Friederike Börner Pdf

Document from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Institut fuer Anglistik), course: Foundations in Bilingualism, language: English, abstract: In this paper I want to give a short introduction to the language varieties in Japan and I want to talk about the struggle with minority languages in the country. When talking about minority languages I will especially refer to the Ainu language, the indigenous language of Japan. The Japanese language is spoken by 127 Million people and ranks on the 9th place of the most frequent spoken languages. However, Japanese is not a universal language, since most of the people are native speakers and the center of the Japanese language is Japan. Nowadays it is spoken on the 4 main islands of Japan – Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Japanese can be also found in the former colonized parts of Japan – in Korea, Taiwan, Sakhalin, in some parts of China, in Hawaii and even Brazil. For Western people Japanese seems very exotic and difficult to learn, especially the writing and reading of the Japanese language is a struggle for every language learner from a Western country. It consist of the Hiragana and Katakana syllabary and the Chinese characters called Kanji. Although we can find Chinese characters in Japanese, both languages have totally different lexis and grammar. The Chinese characters were brought to Japan in the year 300 and developed by the Japanese people to fit their own language system. There are controversies about if Japanese is an Altaic language or a malayoaustronesian language. Since Linguists cannot find a certain genealogical relationship to another language, Japanese is considered as a Japonic language and can still not be clearly defined by today.

The Making of Monolingual Japan

Patrick Heinrich
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Author : Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696564

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The Making of Monolingual Japan by Patrick Heinrich Pdf

Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity.

Language Contact in Japan

Leo J. Loveday
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Author : Leo J. Loveday
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191583698

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Language Contact in Japan by Leo J. Loveday Pdf

The Japanese are often characterized as exclusive and ethnocentric, yet a close examination of their linguistic and cultural history reveals a very different picture: although theirs is essentially a monolingual speech community they emerge as a people who have been significantly influenced by other languages and cultures for at least 2000 years. In this primarily sociolinguistic study Professor Loveday takes an eclectic approach, drawing on insights from other subfields of linguistics such as comparative and historical linguistics and stylistics, and from a number of other disciplines - cultural anthropology, social psychology and semiotics. Focusing in particular on the influence of Chinese and English on Japanese, and on how elements from these languages are modified when they are incorporated into Japanese, Professor Loveday offers a general model for understanding language contact behaviour across time and space. The study will be of value to those in search of cross-cultural universals in language contact behaviour, as well as to those with a particular interest in the Japanese case.

Language Support for Immigrants in Japan

Keiko Hattori,Makiko Shinya,Kurie Otachi
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Author : Keiko Hattori,Makiko Shinya,Kurie Otachi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666910223

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Language Support for Immigrants in Japan by Keiko Hattori,Makiko Shinya,Kurie Otachi Pdf

This volume adopts a community-based approach to language learning in order to argue for the creation of inclusive and equitable language policies in Japan.

Language Life in Japan

Patrick Heinrich,Christian Galan
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Author : Patrick Heinrich,Christian Galan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136935930

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Language Life in Japan by Patrick Heinrich,Christian Galan Pdf

Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the Japanese public education system alone who came to Japan in the 1980s and who speak more than a hundred different languages. Added to this growing linguistic diversity, the importance of English as the language of international communication in business and science especially is hotly debated. This book analyses how this linguistic diversity, 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. This topic is an important one as Japan fights to re-establish itself in the new world order and will be of interest to all those who are concerned language change, language versus dialect, the effect of modern technology on language usage, and the way national and social problems are always reflected through the prism of language.

Language Policy in Japan

Nanette Gottlieb
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Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139504799

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Language Policy in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

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.

Language and Education in Japan

Y. Kanno
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Author : Y. Kanno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230591585

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Language and Education in Japan by Y. Kanno Pdf

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures.

Language Crisis in the Ryukyus

Mark Anderson,Patrick Heinrich
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Author : Mark Anderson,Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443873468

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Language Crisis in the Ryukyus by Mark Anderson,Patrick Heinrich Pdf

Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of why these languages became endangered in the first place. The chapters of this book have been written by leading experts in Ryukyuan sociolinguistics and the scope encompasses the entire field. It sheds light on the dark side of language modernization, on a misplaced obsession with monolingualism, and on Japan’s difficulties in surmounting its invented self-image.

Language in Public Spaces in Japan

Nanette Gottlieb
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Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317985198

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Language in Public Spaces in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the material (an international airport, the streets of Tokyo, the JSL classroom in Japan and courtrooms) to the electronic (television dramas, local government web pages and cyberspace). Through its study of the language encountered in such settings, the volume provides a deeper understanding of multifaceted aspects of linguistic diversity, both in terms of the use of languages other than Japanese and of issues relating to the Japanese language itself. The variety of theoretical approaches brought to bear by contributing authors ensures a substantial intellectual contribution to the literature on language in contemporary Japan. This book was published as a special issue of Japanese Studies.

Language Planning and Language Change in Japan

Tessa Carroll
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Author : Tessa Carroll
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700713832

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Language Planning and Language Change in Japan by Tessa Carroll Pdf

This text highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan against a background of significant socio-cultural, political and economic change, and places them in a comparative context.

Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan

Nanette Gottlieb
Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan Book PDF

Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : 0415338034

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Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

Written by a leading expert in the field this book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan.