Author Description

Modern And Late Modern Perspectives On Language Life In Japan / Patrick Heinrich And Christian Galan -- Language Rights In Japan: What Are They Good For? / Goro Christoph Kimura -- Difficulties Of Establishing Heritage Language Education In Uchinaa / Patrick Heinrich -- The Emerging Borderless Community On The Local Radio In Uchinaa / Yuko Sugita -- Out Of This World, In This World, Or Both? The Japanese School At A Threshold / Christian Galan -- Japan's Literacy Myth And Its Social Functions / Hitoshi Yamashita (translated From German By Patrick Heinrich) -- Standardization And De-standardization Processes In Spoken Japanese / Fumio Inoue -- Constraints On Language Use In Public Broadcasting / Takehiro Shioda -- Technology And The Writing System In Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- Modernity Rewritten: Linguistic Landscaping In Tokyo / Peter Backhaus -- Language, Power And Politeness In Business Meetings In Japan / Hiromasa Tanaka And Aya Sugiyama -- Japanese As An International Language / Tessa Carroll -- Prospects And Prerequisites For A Japanese Third-way Language Policy In Japan / Takao Katsuragi. Edited By Patrick Heinrich And Christian Galan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.