Preface; 1 Language Ideology as a Field of Enquiry; 2 The Call of Mori Arinori to Replace Japanese; 3 The Creation of a Modern Voice; 4 The Unification of Japanese; 5 The Linguistic Assimilation of Ryukyuans and Ainu; 6 The Most Beautiful Language in the World; 7 Language Ideology as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 8 Current Challenges to Modernist Language Ideology; 9 Language Ideology in 21st-century Japan; References; Index
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index
