Coulmas Language Regimes in Transformation

Future Prospects for German and Japanese in Science, Economy, and Politics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019787-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 93, 226 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]ISSN

Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status in their home countries and as foreign languages in third countries is in flux. Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-date study of language regime change. The desirability of a single all-purpose language for all communication needs is seldom questioned. It is simply taken for granted in many advanced countries, such as Japan and the German-speaking countries. However, it is not clear whether German and Japanese can sustain their full functional potential if their own speakers use these languages in certain domains with decreasing frequency. The advantages of borderless communication in a single language, on one hand, and maintaining highly cultivated all-purpose languages, on the other, are obvious. The question of whether and how these two principles can be reconciled in the age of globalization is not. In this book, leading scholars present their answers: Ulrich Ammon, Tessa Carroll, Nanette Gottlieb, Patrick Heinrich, Takao Katsuragi, John Maher, Kiyoshi Hara, Elmar Holenstein, Konrad Ehlich, Fumio Inoue, and Florian Coulmas.

Zielgruppe

Students of Sociolinguistics, Professionals involved in Language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coulmas, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;9
3;On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance;13
4;Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism?;31
5;Challenges for language policy in today’s Japan;45
6;Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today?;65
7;Japanese and German language education in the UK: problems, parallels, and prospects;83
8;Changing economic values of German and Japanese;107
9;The debate on English as an official language in Japan;127
10;Remains of the day: language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan;153
11;The case for choice – language preferences in Japanese academic publishing;167
12;Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names;185
13;Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe – focusing on Celtic languages;203
14;Backmatter;219

Über Autor(innen)

Florian Coulmas, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.