[PDF] Metroethnicity Naming And Mocknolect eBook

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260028

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Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese.

Author : Aeneas Zi Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2024-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040109187

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This edited book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed. As many advanced economies are ageing, and their populations stagnate or decline, immigrants are increasingly required to fill in the gaps left behind by shrinking workforces. Against this backdrop, the outdated view that it is – and can only be – a privilege for immigrants to move temporarily from less to more developed economies needs a rethink. In particular, questions about how attractive a host destination can be for immigrants; not just in economic, but also in social, political, linguistic, and cultural terms should be raised. Considering in detail the situation in Japan and Germany – Japan where there are hardly any convenience stores without foreign employees, Germany where retirement homes would no longer function without foreign nursing staff – the book analyses migration to these two countries in different aspects such as education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the part of the state and policymakers in rendering moving to and living in these countries worthwhile. Bringing together leading scholars active in diverse aspects of migration in Japan and Germany, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars with an interest in immigration issues in these two countries specifically, and Europe and Asia more broadly.

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192598538

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This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversity, particularly in urban areas, but the true extent of this diversity has often been overlooked. The contributors to this volume provide a new perspective, with detailed accounts of the wide range of languages spoken in different contexts and by different communities across the Japanese archipelago. Each chapter focuses on a specific language community, and systematically explores the history of the variety in Japanese culture and the current sociolinguistic situation. The first part explores the indigenous languages of Japan, including the multiple dialects of Japanese itself and the lesser-known Ryukyan and Ainu languages. Chapters in Part II look at community languages, ranging from the historic minority languages such as Korean and Chinese to the languages spoken by more recent migrant communities, such as Nepali, Filipino, and Persian. The final part examines languages of culture, politics, and modernization, from the use of English in international business and education contexts to the ongoing use of Latin and Sanskrit for religious purposes. The volume sheds new light on Japan's position as an important multilingual and multicultural society, and will be of interest to scholars and students not only of Japanese and sociolinguistics, but of Asian studies and migration studies more widely.

Author : Alastair Pennycook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1009348655

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This book unsettles common accounts of language through a focus on language assemblages as embodied, embedded and distributed artefacts.

Author : Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351818392

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Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198724993

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John C. Maher explains why societies everywhere have become more multilingual, despite the disappearance of hundreds of the world languages. He considers our notion of language as national or cultural identities, and discusses why nations cluster and survive around particular languages even as some territories pursue autonomy or nationhood.

Author : Joan L. Bybee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1995-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027285721

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This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.

Author : John C. Maher
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This book presents a new outlook on the language situation in Japan and provides a sociolinguistic profile of the language situation of the older mother tongues. It presents issues such as bilingual families and 'returnee' language maintenance and rejects the stereotyping of Japan as a 'linguistically homogeneous nation with a difficult language'.

Author : Na'ilah Suad Nasir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135039305

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Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining learning as entailing inherently cultural processes. Conceptualizing culture as both a set of social practices and connected to learner identities, the chapters synthesize contemporary research in elaborating a new vision of the cultural nature of learning, moving beyond summary to reshape the field toward studies that situate culture in the learning sciences alongside equity of educational processes and outcomes. With the recent increased focus on culture and equity within the educational research community, this volume presents a comprehensive, innovative treatment of what has become one of the field’s most timely and relevant topics.

Author : John Christopher Maher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Reference guide for the ESL medical community