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The kokugo revolution : education, identity, and language policy in imperial Japan / Paul H. Clark.
Van Pelt Library PL524.73 .C53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Paul H., 1967-
- Series:
- Japan research monograph ; 16.
- Japan research monograph ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese language--Reform--History.
- Japanese language.
- Language policy--Japan--History.
- Language policy.
- Japanese language--Study and teaching--Japan--History.
- Language planning--Japan--History.
- Language planning.
- Japanese language--Political aspects.
- History.
- Japanese language--Study and teaching.
- Japanese language--Reform.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 201 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Language and the problem of basic communication language reform in Europe. The legacy of language reform
- Writing, literacy, language reform and education reform in early Meiji Japan
- The birth of the genbun'itchi movement and futsbun in the Middle Meiji years
- Ueda Kazutoshi, systematic linguistics and the academic legitimization of kokugo
- The Genbun'itchi Society and the establishment of The National Language Research Council
- Grammar, textbooks and the implementation of the national language
- Kokugo, the state and Yamada.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1557290954
- 9781557290953
- OCLC:
- 313017416
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