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Language Life in Japan : Transformations and Prospects.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Modern and late modern perspectives on language life in Japan; 2 Language rights in Japan: What are they good for?; 3 Difficulties of establishing heritage language education in Uchinaa; 4 The emerging borderless community on the local radio in Uchinaa; 5 Out of this world, in this world, or both?: The Japanese school at a threshold; 6 Japan's literacy myth and its social functions; 7 Standardization and de-standardization processes in spoken Japanese.
- 8 Constraints on language use in public broadcasting9 Technology and the writing system in Japan; 10 Modernity rewritten: Linguistic landscaping in Tokyo; 11 Language, power and politeness in business meetings in Japan; 12 Japanese as an international language; 13 Prospects and prerequisites for a third-way language policy in Japan; Bibliography; Index.