Language Planning and Language Change in Japan
Title | Language Planning and Language Change in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Carroll |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780700713837 |
This text highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan against a background of significant socio-cultural, political and economic change, and places them in a comparative context.
Language Planning and Language Policy
Title | Language Planning and Language Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Ping Chen |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780700714681 |
Highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan at the end of the 20th century against a background of significant socio-cultural, political, and economic change and places them in a comparative context.
Language Policy in Japan
Title | Language Policy in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Nanette Gottlieb |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2011-11-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139504797 |
Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.
Language Life in Japan
Title | Language Life in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2010-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136935940 |
This book analyses how linguistic diversity in Japan, and indeed recognition of this phenomenon, presents a wide range of sociolinguistic challenges and opportunities in fundamental institutions such as schools, in cultural patterns and in social behaviours and attitudes.
Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters
Title | Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Kaplan |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847690955 |
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation -- including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.
Language Planning and Social Change
Title | Language Planning and Social Change PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Cooper |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521336413 |
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics
Title | Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2019-06-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351818392 |
Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.