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Language life in Japan [electronic resource] : transformations and prospects / edited by Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 34.Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xvii, 252 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203846674
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Contents:
1. Modern and late modern perspectives on language life in Japan / Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan -- 2. Language rights in Japan : what are they good for? / Goro Christoph Kimura -- 3. Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa / Patrick Heinrich -- 4. The emerging borderless community on the local radio in Uchinaa / Yuko Sugita -- 5. Out of this world, in this world, or both? The Japanese school at a 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 the writing system in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- 10. Modernity rewritten : linguistic landscaping in Tokyo / peter Backhau -- 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 language policy in Japan / Takao Katsuragi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Modern and late modern perspectives on language life in Japan / Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan -- 2. Language rights in Japan : what are they good for? / Goro Christoph Kimura -- 3. Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa / Patrick Heinrich -- 4. The emerging borderless community on the local radio in Uchinaa / Yuko Sugita -- 5. Out of this world, in this world, or both? The Japanese school at a 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 the writing system in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- 10. Modernity rewritten : linguistic landscaping in Tokyo / peter Backhau -- 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 language policy in Japan / Takao Katsuragi.

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