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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics |
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Routledge studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Contents |
Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- After homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan / Patrick Heinrich -- It's better if they speak broken Japanese?: Language as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? / Chris Burgess -- Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government schools / Kaori H. Okano -- Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship in Japan / Ikuo Kawakami -- Remedial language education and citizenship: Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project / Robert Moorehead -- Gender capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language acquisition and education for foreign children / Genaro Castro-Vezquez -- Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan / Ernani Oda -- Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal courts / Ikuko Nakane -- English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in the Ogasawara Islands / David Chapman and Daniel Long -- Multilingual or Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites / Tessa Carroll |
| Summary |
The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity, ' which in turn means 'Japanese as one's first language.' Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have been members of the 'oldcomer' Chinese and Korean communities, born and raised in Japan. But this is changing: the last three decades have seen an influx of 'newcomer' economic migrants from a wide range of countries, many of whom choose to stay. The likelihood that they will apply for citizenship |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Japan
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Second language acquisition -- Japan
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Linguistics -- Study and teaching -- Japan
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Language and culture -- Japan
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Citizenship -- Japan
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Citizenship
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Language and culture
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Language and languages
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Linguistics -- Study and teaching
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Second language acquisition
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91002999
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136503177 |
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113650317X |
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