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Cell Phone Emails
Central Government
Classroom Japanese
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Common Language
Contemporary Societies
Desu Ka
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ideologies
Interpreter Assistance
IRF Sequence
Japanese court interpreting
Japanese Language Classrooms
Kansai Dialect
landscape
Language Ideologies
language ideology
Language Play
linguistic
linguistic diversity studies
Linguistic Landscape
Local Government Websites
multilingual digital environments in Japan
multilingual signage
Nai Desu
Okinawa Prefecture
Orthographic Play
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public communication Japan
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Romantic Hero
Romantic Heroines
Ryukyuan Languages
sociolinguistics
Speak Standard Japanese
Standard Japanese
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Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415619288
  • Weight: 440g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jun 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the material (an international airport, the streets of Tokyo, the JSL classroom in Japan and courtrooms) to the electronic (television dramas, local government web pages and cyberspace).

Through its study of the language encountered in such settings, the volume provides a deeper understanding of multifaceted aspects of linguistic diversity, both in terms of the use of languages other than Japanese and of issues relating to the Japanese language itself. The variety of theoretical approaches brought to bear by contributing authors ensures a substantial intellectual contribution to the literature on language in contemporary Japan.

This book was published as a special issue of Japanese Studies.
About
Nanette Gottlieb FAHA is Professor of Japanese Studies and ARC Professorial Fellow in the Japan Program, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Her recent work includes Language and Society in Japan (2005) and Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan (2006). She is currently working on a five-year study of the challenges to language policy in Japan brought about by both increased immigration and new technologies, with a book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.