Heritage, Nationhood, and Language : Migrants with Connections to Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415612135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 184 str.

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Opis

This study opens up a new field of investigation in heritage language studies by exploring the complex linkage between heritage language and social justice for Japan-related migrants.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Neriko Musha Doerr  2. Learning to Be Transnational: Japanese Language Education for Bolivia’s Okinawan Diaspora  Taku Suzuki  3. Conflicted Attitudes toward Heritage: Heritage Language Learning of Returnee Adolescents from Japan at a Nikkei School in Lima, Peru  Yuri Yamasaki  4. Heritage: Owned or Assigned? The Cultural Politics of Teaching Heritage Language in Osaka, Japan  Yuko Okubo  5. Inheriting "Japanese-ness" Diversely: Heritage Practices at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States  Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee  6. Rethinking Japanese American "Heritage" in the Homeland  Ayako Takamori  7. Afterword: Japan-related Linguistic Intervention  Laura Miller  8. Afterword: Cross-Cultural Implications of Japanese Heritage Language Policies and Practices  Krista E. Van Vleet  9. Afterword: "Dreaming in…English?" The Complexity and Unexpectedness of Japanese Being and Becoming through Language  Barbra A. Meek

O autorze

Neriko Musha Doerr received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. She currently teaches at Ramapo College (Mahwah, NJ). Her research interests include language and power (heritage/bilingual education, standardization, and "native speaker" ideologies), politics of schooling, nationalism, heritage politics, and globalization processes in Japan, the United States, and Aotearoa/New Zealand.