Language life in Japan : transformations and prospects / / edited by Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459205203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-93594-0; 1-282-78133-2; 9786612781339; 0-203-84667-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Routledge contemporary Japan series ; ; 34
• Altri autori (Persone): GalanChristian; HeinrichPatrick
• Disciplina: 418.0071/052
• Soggetti: Second language acquisition - Japan; Linguistics - Study and teaching - Japan; English language - Japan; Language and culture - Japan; Electronic books.; Japan Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Modern and late modern perspectives on language life in Japan; 2 Language rights in Japan: What are they good for?; 3 Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa; 4 The emerging borderless community on the local radio in Uchinaa; 5 Out of this world, in this world, or both?: The Japanese school at a threshold; 6 Japan's literacy myth and its social functions; 7 Standardization and de-standardization processes in spoken Japanese; 8 Constraints on language use in public broadcasting9 Technology and the writing system in Japan; 10 Modernity rewritten: Linguistic landscaping in Tokyo; 11 Language, power and politeness in business meetings in Japan; 12 Japanese as an international language; 13 Prospects and prerequisites for a third-way language policy in Japan; ; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. T