The Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity (Multilingual Matters)

by PatrickHeinrich (Author)

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  2012

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  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.