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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Coulmas, Florian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Series:Contributions to the sociology of language ; 93.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance / Takao Katsuragi
  • Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism? / Konrad Ehlich
  • Challenges for language policy in today's Japan / Nanette Gottlieb
  • Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today? / Ulrich Ammon
  • Japanese and German language education in the UK : problems, parallels, and prospects / Tessa Carroll
  • Changing economic values of German and Japanese / Fumio Inoue
  • The debate on English as an official language in Japan / Patrick Heinrich
  • Remains of the day : language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan / John Maher
  • The case for choice : language preferences in Japanese academic publishing / Florian Coulmas
  • Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names / Elmar Holenstein
  • Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe : focusing on Celtic languages / Kiyoshi Hara.