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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherMultilingual Matters
ISBN-10185359489X
ISBN-139781853594892
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038618296
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameStudies in Japanese Bilingualism
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLinguistics / Sociolinguistics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorSandra Fotos
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
SeriesBilingual Education and Bilingualism Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight22.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-026756
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal495.6/042
Table Of ContentJohn C. Maher: Preface 1 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Introduction: The Crumbling of a Myth 2 Yamamoto Masayo: Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: A Survey and Its Implications 3 Fred E. Anderson and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman: Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community 4 Osumi Midori: Language and Identity in Okinawa Today 5 Ann B. Cary: Affiliation, Not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education 6 Tomozawa Akie: Japan's Hidden Bilinguals: The Languages of 'War Orphans' and their Families after Repatriation from China 7 Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke: On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants in Fujisawa City 8 Sharon Seibert Vaipae: Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools 9 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan: A Pilot Survey of Factors Linked to Active English-Japanese Bilingualism 10 R. Michael Bostwick: Bilingual Education of Children in Japan: Year Four of a Partial Immersion Programme 11 Yuriko Kite: English/Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International High School 12 Sandra Fotos: Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals: Japanese University Students' Use of Their Native Language as a Learning Strategy 13 Lynne Hansen: Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism Contributors Index
SynopsisThis book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance and English immersion, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese contexts., Studies in Japanese Bilingualism helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering twelve empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance, creative use of Ryukyuan languages in Okinawa, English immersion, and language use by Nikkei immigrants, Chinese "War Orphans" and bicultural children, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese contexts.