| Description |
1 online resource (x, 216 pages) : illustrations |
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Contributions to the sociology of language, 1861-0676 ; 93 |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 93. 1861-0676
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| Contents |
On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance / Takao Katsuragi -- Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism? / Konrad Ehlich -- Challenges for language policy in today's Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today? / Ulrich Ammon -- Japanese and German language education in the UK : problems, parallels, and prospects / Tessa Carroll -- Changing economic values of German and Japanese / Fumio Inoue -- The debate on English as an official language in Japan / Patrick Heinrich -- Remains of the day : language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan / John Maher -- The case for choice : language preferences in Japanese academic publishing / Florian Coulmas -- Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names / Elmar Holenstein -- Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe : focusing on Celtic languages / Kiyoshi Hara |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Multilingualism.
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Language policy.
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Globalization.
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globalism.
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EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education.
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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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| Author |
Coulmas, Florian.
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| LC no. |
2006037137 |
| ISBN |
9783110197877 |
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3110197871 |
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1282194232 |
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9781282194236 |
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9786612194238 |
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6612194235 |
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