Trilingual Glossary of Demographic Terminology: English - Japanese - German

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15476-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 926 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1792 g

This glossary is an up-to-date research tool for the study of population in English, Japanese and German. Based on the technical literature, encyclopedias, databases and existing glossaries in the three languages listed as well as other relevant languages in which demographic research is carried out, it comprises more than 7500 technical terms accessible in three directions: English-Japanese-German, Japanese-English-German and German-Japanese-English.

Scientific fields covered include social demography, population geography, political demography, economic demography, historical demography, medical demography, biodemography, mathematical demography, as well as some adjacent fields such as psychology, law, technology, religion, linguistics and education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koch, Matthias

Harmer, Claus

Coulmas, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie

Über Autor(innen)

Matthias Koch, Ph.D. (1997), is Senior Researcher in Social and Economic History at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. He has published widely in the area of Japanese Studies and is currently writing a book on the population history of Japan.

Claus Harmer is system administrator at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. He has developed and programmed several databanks and virtual exhibitions containing social scientific research data.

Florian Coulmas, Ph.D. (1978), is Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. He has compiled two dictionaries and published widely about Japanese society and culture. He is one of the editors of The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (forthcoming).