Patrick Heinrich: 1 book
The Making of Monolingual Japan
Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince...
