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The making of monolingual Japan : language ideology and Japanese modernity /

Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which langu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heinrich, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012.
Colección:Multilingual matters (Series) ; 146.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1 Language Ideology as a Field of Enquiry; 2 The Call of Mori Arinori to Replace Japanese; 3 The Creation of a Modern Voice; 4 The Unification of Japanese; 5 The Linguistic Assimilation of Ryukyuans and Ainu; 6 The Most Beautiful Language in the World; 7 Language Ideology as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 8 Current Challenges to Modernist Language Ideology; 9 Language Ideology in 21st-century Japan; References; Index.