Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

ISBN-13: 9781032177939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 488 str.

Patrick Heinrich; Yumiko Ohara

Opis

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, this book provides insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective.

Recenzje

In sum, this is an excellent collection that will be indispensable to scholars in Japanese sociolinguistics and beyond.

- JANET S. SHIBAMOTO-SMITH, Anthropology, University of California

Spis treści

Part I: The languages and language varieties of Japan  1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers  2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics  3. Ryukyu-subtrate Japanese: Contact efforts on the replacing language  4. Japanese dialects  5. Koine and koineization  6. Language and migration in Japan  7. English in Japan  Part II: The multilingual ecology  8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics  9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan  10. Linguistic landscape  11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan  12. Japan as a multilingual society  Part III: Variation, style and interaction  13. Language variation and change  14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices  15. Language and social relations  16. Politeness  17. Impoliteness  18. Gendered speech  Part IV: Language problems and language planning  19. Language policy and planning  20. Script and orthography problems  21. Literacy and illiteracy  22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories  23. Ainu language shift  24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands  25. Language rights  Part V: Research overviews  26. Language life (gengo seikatsu)  27. The study of Japanese language speakers  28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese

O autorze

Patrick Heinrich is Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy, where he teaches Japanese and Ryukyuan sociolinguistics. His recent publications include Urban Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2017) and The Making of Monolingual Japan (2012).

Yumiko Ohara is Professor in the College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, USA, where she teaches pragmatics and linguistics of endangered languages. Her publications include Various Approaches to Japanese Discourse (2007).