| Contents |
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- I. The languages and language varieties of Japan: 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers / Mika Fukazawa -- 2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics / Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahara, Gijs van der Lubbe, Patrick Heinrich -- 3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language / Mark Anderson -- 4. Japanese dialects / Shinji Sanada -- 5. Koine and koineization / Shin Abe -- 6. Language and migration in Japan / Ruriko Otomo -- 7. English in Japan / Ryuko Kubota -- II. The multilingual ecology: 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics / John C. Maher -- 9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan / Emi Otsuji -- 10. Linguistic landscape / Peter Backhaus -- 11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan / Sachiyo Fujita-Round -- 12. Japan as a multilingual society / Hiroshi Shoji -- III. Variation, style and interaction: 13. Language variation and change / Kazuko Matsumoto -- 14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices / Rika Yamashita -- 15. Language and social relations / Zi Wang -- 16. Politeness / Yasuko Obana -- 17. Impoliteness / Yukiko Nishimura -- 18. Gendered speech / Yumiko Ohara -- IV. Language problems and language planning: 19. Language policy and planning / Ruriko Otomo -- 20. Script and orthography problems / Hidenori Masiko -- 21. Literacy and illiteracy / Takeshi Nakashima -- 22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories / Toshiaki Yasuda -- 23. Ainu language shift / Takayuki Okazaki -- 24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands / Mark Anderson -- 25. Language rights / Goro Christoph Kimura -- V. Research Overviews: 26. Language life (gengo seikatsu) / Patrick Heinrich -- 27. The study of Japanese language speakers / Riikka Länsisalmi -- 28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese / Mark Anderson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Routledge handbook of Japanese sociolinguistics New York, NY : Routledge, [2019] 9780415790277 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019005836 |
| ISBN | 9781315213378 (Ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781351818407 (Adobe Reader) |
| ISBN | 9781351818391 ( ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781351818384 (Mobipocket Encrypted) |
