The Making of Monolingual Japan

The Making of Monolingual Japan
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781847696564
ISBN-13 : 1847696562
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Book Synopsis The Making of Monolingual Japan by : Patrick Heinrich

Download or read book The Making of Monolingual Japan written by Patrick Heinrich and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 language ideology undermines linguistic diversity.


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