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



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Autore: Heinrich Patrick Visualizza persona
Titolo: TheMaking of Monolingual Japan : Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity / / Patrick Heinrich Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44/952
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: TheMaking of Monolingual Japan  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-12093-2
9786613524799
1-84769-658-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778910603321
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Serie: Multilingual Matters