Heinrich Patrick - The Making Of Monolingual Japan Language Ideology And Japanese Modernity - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: The Making Of Monolingual Japan Language Ideology And Japanese Modernity
Author(s): Heinrich Patrick
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781847696564
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 2/10/2012
Series: Multilingual Matters
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy