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Language and citizenship in Japan / / edited by Nanette Gottlieb



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Titolo: Language and citizenship in Japan / / edited by Nanette Gottlieb Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 306.440952
Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Study and teaching - Japan
Second language acquisition - Japan
Linguistics - Study and teaching - Japan
Language and culture - Japan
Citizenship - Japan
Soggetto geografico: Japan Languages
Altri autori: GottliebNanette <1948->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- After homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan / Patrick Heinrich -- It's better if they speak broken Japanese?: Language as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? / Chris Burgess -- Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government schools / Kaori H. Okano -- Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship in Japan / Ikuo Kawakami -- Remedial language education and citizenship: Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project / Robert Moorehead -- Gender capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language acquisition and education for foreign children / Genaro Castro-Vezquez -- Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan / Ernani Oda -- -- Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal courts / Ikuko Nakane -- English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in the Ogasawara Islands / David Chapman and Daniel Long -- Multilingual or Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites / Tessa Carroll.
Sommario/riassunto: The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity,' which in turn means 'Japanese as one's first language.' Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have been members of the 'oldcomer' Chinese and Korean communities, born and raised in Japan. But this is changing: the last three decades have seen an influx of 'newcomer' economic migrants from a wide range of countries, many of whom choose to stay. The likelihood that they will apply for citizenship,
Titolo autorizzato: Language and citizenship in Japan  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-50316-1
0-203-14444-9
1-283-89356-8
1-136-50317-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824470503321
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Serie: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics