Multilingual Japan
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Multilingual Japan
Multilingual Matters, c1995
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"... special issue of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 16: 1 and 2, 1995"--CIP t.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Linguistic diversity is part of the heritage of Japan: an archipelago of over 3,000 islands from the 'new territories' of Hokkaido in the north to the southern Ryukyu islands. This book presents a new outlook on the language situation in Japan. It provides a sociolinguistic profile of the language situation of the older mother tongues such as Ryukyuan and Ainu, community languages such as Korean, English and Chinese and presents issues such as bilingual families and 'returnee' language maintenance. The book rejects the oft-repeated stereotyping of Japan as a 'linguistically homogeneous nation with a difficult language' particularly in the English-language literature and challenges the post-Meiji period endeavour to establish Japanese 'identity' in terms of monolingual integrity. Through the perspective of these studies, Japan may be viewed as being multilingual and as linguistically complex as many other regions of the world.
目次
John C. Maher and Kyoko Yashiro: Multilingual Japan: An Introduction
Akiko Matsumori: Ryukyuan: Past, Present and Future
Nobuyuki Honna: English in Japanese Society: Language within Language
Masayo Yamamoto: Bilingualism in International Families
John C. Maher and Yumiko Kawanishi: On Being There: Korean in Japan
Joseph DeChicchis: The Current State of the Ainu Language
John C. Maher: The Kakyo: Chinese in Japan
Kyoko Yashiro: Japan's Returnees
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