1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778910603321

Autore

Heinrich Patrick

Titolo

TheMaking of Monolingual Japan : Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity / / Patrick Heinrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-12093-2

9786613524799

1-84769-658-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Multilingual Matters

Disciplina

306.44/952

Soggetti

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 - Study and teaching - Japan

Second language acquisition - Variation - Japan

Linguistics - Japan

English language

Language and culture

Languages & Literatures

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Philology & Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791683003321

Autore

Ballester-Bolinches Adolfo

Titolo

Products of finite groups [[electronic resource] /] / by Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches, Ramon Esteban-Romero, Mohamed Asaad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : De Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-282-91226-7

9786612912269

3-11-022061-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter expositions in mathematics ; ; 53

Classificazione

SK 260

Altri autori (Persone)

Esteban-RomeroRamon

AsaadMohamed

Disciplina

512/.23

Soggetti

Finite groups

Group theory

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Prerequisites -- Chapter 2. Groups whose subnormal subgroups are normal, permutable, or Sylow-permutable -- Chapter 3. Products of nilpotent groups -- Chapter 4. Totally and mutually permutable products of groups - structural results -- Chapter 5.Totally and mutually permutable products and classes of groups -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The study of finite groups factorised as a product of two or more subgroups has become a subject of great interest during the last years with applications not only in group theory, but also in other areas like cryptography and coding theory. It has experienced a big impulse with the introduction of some permutability conditions. The aim of this book is to gather, order, and examine part of this material, including the latest advances made, give some new approach to some topics, and present some new subjects of research in the theory of finite factorised groups. Some of the topics covered by this book include groups whose subnormal subgroups are normal, permutable, or Sylow-permutable, products of nilpotent groups, and an exhaustive structural study of totally and mutually permutable products of finite groups and their relation with classes of groups. This monograph is mainly addressed to graduate students and senior researchers interested in the study of products and permutability of finite groups. A background in finite group theory and a basic knowledge of representation theory and classes of groups is recommended to follow it.