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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2007.
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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