Routledge handbook of Japanese sociolinguistics / edited by Patrick Heinrich and Yumiko Ohara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heinrich, Patrick, editor.

Ōhara, Yumiko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Japan.

Sociolinguistics.

Japanese language--Social aspects.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]

Summary:

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised intofive parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.

Contents:

I. The languages and language varieties of Japan: 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers / Mika Fukazawa

2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics / Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahara, Gijs van der Lubbe, Patrick Heinrich

3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language / Mark Anderson

4. Japanese dialects / Shinji Sanada

5. Koine and koineization / Shin Abe

6. Language and migration in Japan / Ruriko Otomo

7. English in Japan / Ryuko Kubota

II. The multilingual ecology: 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics / John C. Maher

9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan / Emi Otsuji

10. Linguistic landscape / Peter Backhaus

11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan / Sachiyo Fujita-Round

12. Japan as a multilingual society / Hiroshi Shoji

III. Variation, style and interaction: 13. Language variation and change / Kazuko Matsumoto

14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices / Rika Yamashita

15. Language and social relations / Zi Wang

16. Politeness / Yasuko Obana

17. Impoliteness / Yukiko Nishimura

18. Gendered speech / Yumiko Ohara

IV. Language problems and language planning: 19. Language policy and planning / Ruriko Otomo

20. Script and orthography problems / Hidenori Masiko (translated from Japanese by Yumiko Ohara)

21. Literacy and illiteracy / Takeshi Nakashima

22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories / Toshiaki Yasuda (translated from Japanese by Yumiko Ohara)

23. Ainu language shift / Takayuki Okazaki

24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands / Mark Anderson

25. Language rights / Goro Christoph Kimura

V. Research Overviews: 26. Language life (gengo seikatsu) / Patrick Heinrich

27. The study of Japanese language speakers / Riikka Länsisalmi

28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese / Mark Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-21337-0

1-351-81839-2

1-351-81840-6

9781315213378

OCLC:

1085576336