Language, nation, race : linguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) /

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"Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when "national language" (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various ref...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ueda, Atsuko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:New interventions in Japanese studies
Subjects:
1868-1912
Japanese language > Reform > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Language policy > Japan > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Nationalism > Japan > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japonais (Langue) > Réforme > 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Nationalisme > Japon > 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
History / Asia / Japan.
Literary Collections / Asian / Japanese.
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Race relations.
Japan > Race relations > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japon > Relations raciales > 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Japan.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Competing "languages" : "sound" in the orthographic reforms of early Meiji Japan
  • Sound, scripts, and styles : Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan
  • Zoku as aesthetic criterion : reforms for poetry and prose
  • Racializing the national language : Ueda Kazutoshi's Kokugo reform
  • Tropes of racialization in the works of Natsume Sōseki.

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