Changing Language Regimes in Globalizing Environments: Japan and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Language Regimes in Globalizing Environments: Japan and Europe write by Florian Coulmas. This book was released on 2005. Changing Language Regimes in Globalizing Environments: Japan and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Language Regimes in Transformation
Language Regimes in Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Regimes in Transformation write by Florian Coulmas. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Language Regimes in Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status in their home countries and as foreign languages in third countries is in flux. Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-date study of language regime change. The desirability of a single all-purpose language for all communication needs is seldom questioned. It is simply taken for granted in many advanced countries, such as Japan and the German-speaking countries. However, it is not clear whether German and Japanese can sustain their full functional potential if their own speakers use these languages in certain domains with decreasing frequency. The advantages of borderless communication in a single language, on one hand, and maintaining highly cultivated all-purpose languages, on the other, are obvious. The question of whether and how these two principles can be reconciled in the age of globalization is not. In this book, leading scholars present their answers: Ulrich Ammon, Tessa Carroll, Nanette Gottlieb, Patrick Heinrich, Takao Katsuragi, John Maher, Kiyoshi Hara, Elmar Holenstein, Konrad Ehlich, Fumio Inoue, and Florian Coulmas.
Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change write by Rakhmiel Peltz. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.
Linguistic Landscapes
Linguistic Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Landscapes write by Peter Backhaus. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Linguistic Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs. It provides an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo. Linguistic Landscapes demonstrates that the study of language on signs provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism.
Language in Public Spaces in Japan
Language in Public Spaces in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language in Public Spaces in Japan write by Nanette Gottlieb. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Language in Public Spaces in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
