The making of monolingual Japan : language ideology and Japanese modernity /

Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which langu...

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Main Author: Heinrich, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012
Series:Multilingual matters (Series) ; 146.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central