Author : Tessa Carroll
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780700713837
This text highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan against a background of significant socio-cultural, political and economic change, and places them in a comparative context.
Author : Tessa Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2001-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113677484X
Highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan at the end of the 20th century against a background of significant socio-cultural, political, and economic change and places them in a comparative context. Issues investigated include the concept of disorder in language; changes in official language; changing attitudes to regional dialects; and the impact of globalisation and technological advances.
Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139504797
Over the last thirty years, two social developments have occurred that have led to a need for change in language policy in Japan. One is the increase in the number of migrants needing opportunities to learn Japanese as a second language, the other is the influence of electronic technologies on the way Japanese is written. This book looks at the impact of these developments on linguistic behaviour and language management and policy, and at the role of language ideology in the way they have been addressed. Immigration-induced demographic changes confront long cherished notions of national monolingualism and technological advances in electronic text production have led to textual practices with ramifications for script use and for literacy in general. The book will be welcomed by researchers and professionals in language policy and management and by those working in Japanese Studies.
Author : Ping Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136854460
Examines the major issues of language planning and policy in Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam, particularly those relating to the selection of official language, script, and written language.
Author : R.B. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401701458
This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology.
Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847690955
This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation -- including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.
Author : Joseph LoBianco
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1783090065
This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian political and social life, multiculturalism and Asian regionalism, are represented as key phases in the country’s experimentation with language education planning. Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.
Author : Robert L. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521336413
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.
Author : M. Obaidul Hamid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 131769984X
This volume investigates the policy and practice of medium of instruction at different levels of education in Asian polities including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nepal, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The chapters provide an informed understanding of the context, process, actors, goals and outcomes of medium of instruction policies from a language policy and planning perspective. The volume has an emphasis on the exploration of medium of instruction in action which brings into focus the perspectives of micro policy enactors including teachers, students, and parents in the local context, generating crucial empirical insights. This critical analysis of the goals, outcomes and experiences of this trend in global language-in-education will be of interest to language and education students, researchers, practicing teachers, executives in academia and language studies and to education policymaking authorities in Asia and other parts of the world. The volume updates existing research on medium of instruction and takes the field forward in a fast-changing world as English medium instruction policies are globalised. This book was originally published as a special issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.
Author : Ping Chen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780700714681
Highlights the shift in language planning and language change in Japan at the end of the 20th century against a background of significant socio-cultural, political, and economic change and places them in a comparative context.
