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Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Multilingual Matters Ltd
Publication date February 15, 2012
Pages 204
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781847696564
ISBN-10 1847696562
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.75 by 8 in.
Weight 0.65 lbs.
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $49.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.

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from Multilingual Matters Ltd (February 15, 2012); titled "The Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity"
9781847696571 | details & prices | 204 pages | 6.00 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $139.95
About: Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous.
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from Multilingual Matters Ltd (February 15, 2012)
9781847696564 | details & prices | 204 pages | 5.75 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $49.95
About: Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous.

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