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Murakawa, Kojiro.

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Multilingualism in Japan's Language Policy: A Critical Sociological Analysis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Multilingualism in Japan's Language Policy: A Critical Sociological Analysis./
Author:	Murakawa, Kojiro.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	353 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-03A(E).
Subject:	Language arts. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10936209
ISBN:	9780438683785

Multilingualism in Japan's Language Policy: A Critical Sociological Analysis.
Murakawa, Kojiro.

Multilingualism in Japan's Language Policy: A Critical Sociological Analysis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 353 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2018.

In this dissertation, I investigate how English, Japanese, and other languages are positioned in Japan's language policy and consider what implications the linguistic constellation has for multilingualism. As is the case in many other countries, globalization has urged Japan to implicate itself in global-scale interconnectedness. In a rather paradoxical way, however, globalization's apparently unifying force has strengthened nationalism as a political scenario through which Japan tries to maintain its distinctiveness against such a global force. Furthermore, transnational flows of people, money, and goods have increased diversity inside and outside Japan. English, Japanese, and other languages are considered in Japan as a primary means to deal with these socio-political phenomena. While this might look like an expression of interest in linguistic diversity, it would be premature to conclude that Japan's language policy is oriented towards 'multilingualism'. Language policy can be viewed as (re-)organization of space through social practices performed at spatially different scales. More precisely, the nature of a language policy depends on what indexical meaning people assign to each language through their mediated action at both state and local levels. A 'multilingual' policy is a consequence of negotiation between the two levels in search for equal indexicalities of all languages. This means that the extent to which Japan's language policy is recognized as promoting multilingualism depends on how indexicalities of English, Japanese, and other languages are ordered at the state and local levels. In this dissertation, therefore, I propose a sociology of Japan's language policy with foci on (a) how English, Japanese, and other languages are represented at the state level, (b) how people recognize such state-painted representation at the local level, (c) if there are traces of state ideologies in the ways people on the ground look at those languages, and (d) if it is possible that people make changes to the representation by the state to serve their own purpose and send their own views back to the state to alter language policies. Through inquiry into these issues, finally I consider what is necessary for people to discuss how society should be shaped through language policy.

ISBN: 9780438683785Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Language arts.

Multilingualism in Japan's Language Policy: A Critical Sociological Analysis.
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