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TheMaking of Monolingual Japan : Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity / Patrick Heinrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinrich, Patrick, Author.
- Series:
- Multilingual Matters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Japan.
- Japan--Languages.
- Language and culture--Japan.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Linguistics--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Second language acquisition.
- Language and languages.
- Second language acquisition--Variation--Japan.
- Linguistics--Japan.
- Linguistics.
- English language.
- Language and culture.
- Local Subjects:
- English language--Japan.
- Japan--Languages.
- Language and culture--Japan.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Language and languages--Variation.
- Linguistics--Study and teaching--Japan.
- Second language acquisition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Language Ideology as a Field of Enquiry
- 2. The Call of Mori Arinori to Replace Japanese
- 3. The Creation of a Modern Voice
- 4. The Unifi cation of Japanese
- 5. The Linguistic Assimilation of Ryukyuans and Ainu
- 6. The Most Beautiful Language in the World
- 7. Language Ideology as Self-FulfillingProphecy
- 8. Current Challenges to Modernist Language Ideology
- 9. Language Ideology in 21st-century Japan
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-280-12093-2
- 9786613524799
- 1-84769-658-9
- OCLC:
- 778709330
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