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Language Regimes in Transformation : Future Prospects for German and Japanese in Science, Economy, and Politics.

Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer com.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coulmas, Florian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2007.
Colección:Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance
  • Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism?
  • Challenges for language policy in today's Japan
  • Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today?
  • Japanese and German language education in the UK: problems, parallels, and prospects
  • Changing economic values of German and Japanese
  • The debate on English as an official language in Japan
  • Remains of the day: language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan
  • The case for choice ... language preferences in Japanese academic publishing
  • Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names
  • Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe ... focusing on Celtic languages
  • Backmatter