03736oam 2200733I 450 991045920520332120200520144314.01-136-93594-01-282-78133-297866127813390-203-84667-210.4324/9780203846674 (CKB)2670000000044798(EBL)574483(OCoLC)664551695(SSID)ssj0000421723(PQKBManifestationID)12108740(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421723(PQKBWorkID)10412391(PQKB)10765049(MiAaPQ)EBC574483(Au-PeEL)EBL574483(CaPaEBR)ebr10416568(CaONFJC)MIL278133(OCoLC)671399707(EXLCZ)99267000000004479820180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage life in Japan transformations and prospects /edited by Patrick Heinrich and Christian GalanMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (271 p.)Routledge contemporary Japan series ;34Description based upon print version of record.0-415-85512-8 0-415-58722-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Japanese8 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; IndexDespite 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. TRoutledge contemporary Japan series ;34.Second language acquisitionJapanLinguisticsStudy and teachingJapanEnglish languageJapanLanguage and cultureJapanJapanLanguagesElectronic books.Second language acquisitionLinguisticsStudy and teachingEnglish languageLanguage and culture418.0071/052Galan Christian858725Heinrich Patrick858726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459205203321Language life in Japan1916814UNINA