Handbook Of The Ryukyuan Languages
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Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 2015-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501510711 |
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The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan’s linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of the Japonic language family, which consists of five unroofed Abstand (language by distance) languages.The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages provides for the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. It comprises 33 chapters, written by the leading experts of Ryukyuan languages. Each chapter delineates the boundaries and the research history of the field it addresses, comprises the most important and representative information.
Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 2015-02-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614511152 |
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The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan’s linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of the Japonic language family, which consists of five unroofed Abstand (language by distance) languages.The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages provides for the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. It comprises 33 chapters, written by the leading experts of Ryukyuan languages. Each chapter delineates the boundaries and the research history of the field it addresses, comprises the most important and representative information.
Author | : Elisabeth M. de Boer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Anderson |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-01-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443873462 |
Download Language Crisis in the Ryukyus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of why these languages became endangered in the first place. The chapters of this book have been written by leading experts in Ryukyuan sociolinguistics and the scope encompasses the entire field. It sheds light on the dark side of language modernization, on a misplaced obsession with monolingualism, and on Japan’s difficulties in surmounting its invented self-image.
Author | : Leanne Hinton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317200853 |
Download The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.
Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-06-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1351818392 |
Download Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective. While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include: The languages and language varieties of Japan. The multilingual ecology. Variation, style and interaction. Language problems and language planning. Research overviews. With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.
Author | : Arne Røkkum |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134253648 |
Download Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan and the outside world. This book presents an ethnographic portrayal of the people of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. In particular it explores the mind of the islanders, their relationship with the natural world, their social relationships, and the rituals which represent and give expression to these relationships. Based on extensive original research, including participant observation, the book allows the authentic voices of the Ryukyu Island worlds to speak for themselves as well as setting the work in the wider context of anthropology, Japanese Studies and Pacific Island studies.
Author | : Patrick Heinrich |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847696562 |
Download The Making of Monolingual Japan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Japan is regarded as a model case of successful language modernization. It is also often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. This book explores the debates relating to language modernization from a language ideology perspective, and in doing so reveals the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity.
Author | : Arnold G. Fisch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Download Military Government in the Ryukyu Islands, 1945-1950 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Military government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Author | : Charles Boberg |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2018-01-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1118827554 |
Download The Handbook of Dialectology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry