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Language crisis in the Ryukyus /

Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Mark (Editor ), Heinrich, Patrick (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One Revitalisation Attempts and Language Attitudes in the Ryukyus / Mark Anderson
  • ch. Two Japanese Language Education in the Meiji Period / Sayaka Yoshimura
  • ch. Three Japanese Language Education in Modern Okinawa until 1945 / Ken'ichiro Kondo
  • ch. Four The Politics of the Movement to Enforce Standard Japanese under the U.S. Occupation / Masiko Hidenori
  • ch. Five Language Shift and Language Loss / Mark Anderson
  • ch. Six Language Vitality and Endangerment in the Ryukyus / Masahide Ishihara
  • ch. Seven The Discovery of Okinawa-substrate Japanese as a "We-code": The Language of Okinawan Youth in the 1980s and its Impact / Yuko Sugita
  • ch. Eight Interactional Particles in Okinawan Talk-in-Interaction / Peter Petrucci
  • ch. Nine Amamian Language Life: Experiences of Migration and "Dialect Correction" / Tatsuro Maeda
  • ch. Ten Community's Efforts to Maintain Uchinaaguchi in Sao Paulo / Katsuyuki Miyahira.
  • Contents note continued: ch. Eleven Proverbs in Uchinaaguchi / Kate O'Callaghan
  • ch. Twelve Don't Leave Ryukyuan Languages Alone: A Roadmap for Language Revitalization / Patrick Heinrich.