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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] |
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Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance -- Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism? -- Challenges for language policy in today's Japan -- Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today? -- Japanese and German language education in the UK: problems, parallels, and prospects -- Changing economic values of German and Japanese -- The debate on English as an official language in Japan -- Remains of the day: language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan -- The case for choice ... language preferences in Japanese academic publishing -- Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names -- Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe ... focusing on Celtic languages -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer com |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Multilingualism.
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Language policy.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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Globalization
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Language policy
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Multilingualism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110197877 |
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3110197871 |
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