Language and citizenship in Japan / / edited by Nanette Gottlieb

• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• ISBN: 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.: 9910452980003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics