Language and Citizenship in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415897228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Nanette Gottlieb

Opis

This collection investigates the changing relationship between language and citizenship in Japan today through an examination of key themes relating both to newcomers and to older groups of citizens whose language practices have been shaped by historical forces. Adopting an array of theoretical and methodological approaches ranging from document-based to empirical research and highlighting the increasingly fluid relationship of language to citizenship in a contemporary globalising society, contributors problematise the notion of "one country, one culture, and one language" which has shaped the discourse on identity and citizenship. The notion of citizenship itself is also examined in the book, with discussion of both the increasingly advocated concept of local citizenship and also a wider notion of cultural citizenship linked to the status of local, national, and international languages within Japan.

Spis treści

1. Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan Nanette Gottlieb  2. After homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan Patrick Heinrich  3. ‘It’s better if they speak broken Japanese’: Language as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? Chris Burgess  4. Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government schools Kaori H. Okano  5. Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship in Japan| Ikuo Kawakami  6. Remedial language education and citizenship: Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project Robert Moorehead  7. Gender capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language acquisition and education for foreign children Genaro Castro-Vázquez  8. Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan Ernani Oda  9. Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal courts
Ikuko Nakane  10. English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in the Ogasawara Islands David Chapman and Daniel Long  11. Multilingual or Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites Tessa Carroll

O autorze

Nanette Gottlieb is Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.