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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 the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

• Full title: Making of Monolingual Japan
• Author: Patrick Heinrich
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9781847696564
• ISBN: 1847696562
• ID: 04436419
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Weight: 302 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 148 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2012

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