Routledge handbook of Japanese sociolinguistics

Routledge handbook of Japanese sociolinguistics / edited by Patrick Heinrich and Yumiko Ohara.

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 countr...

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Other Authors: Heinrich, Patrick (Editor), Ōhara, Yumiko (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > Japan.
Japanese language > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics.
Japanese language > Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Japan
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. The languages and language varieties of Japan: 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers / Mika Fukazawa
  • 2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics / Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahara, Gijs van der Lubbe, Patrick Heinrich
  • 3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language / Mark Anderson
  • 4. Japanese dialects / Shinji Sanada
  • 5. Koine and koineization / Shin Abe
  • 6. Language and migration in Japan / Ruriko Otomo
  • 7. English in Japan / Ryuko Kubota
  • II. The multilingual ecology: 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics / John C. Maher
  • 9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan / Emi Otsuji
  • 10. Linguistic landscape / Peter Backhaus
  • 11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan / Sachiyo Fujita-Round
  • 12. Japan as a multilingual society / Hiroshi Shoji
  • III. Variation, style and interaction: 13. Language variation and change / Kazuko Matsumoto
  • 14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices / Rika Yamashita
  • 15. Language and social relations / Zi Wang
  • 16. Politeness / Yasuko Obana
  • 17. Impoliteness / Yukiko Nishimura
  • 18. Gendered speech / Yumiko Ohara
  • IV. Language problems and language planning: 19. Language policy and planning / Ruriko Otomo
  • 20. Script and orthography problems / Hidenori Masiko (translated from Japanese by Yumiko Ohara)
  • 21. Literacy and illiteracy / Takeshi Nakashima
  • 22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories / Toshiaki Yasuda (translated from Japanese by Yumiko Ohara)
  • 23. Ainu language shift / Takayuki Okazaki
  • 24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands / Mark Anderson
  • 25. Language rights / Goro Christoph Kimura
  • V. Research Overviews: 26. Language life (gengo seikatsu) / Patrick Heinrich
  • 27. The study of Japanese language speakers / Riikka Länsisalmi
  • 28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese / Mark Anderson.

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