Screen LibraryLanguage regimes in transformation : future prospects for German and Japanese in science, economy, and politics /
Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes caused by the spread of English. This book provides an in-depth account of how two highly developed all-purpose national languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Contributions to the sociology of language [csl] ;
93 |
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| Summary: |
Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes caused by the spread of English. This book provides an in-depth account of how two highly developed all-purpose national languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status as foreign languages in third countries as well as in their home countries is in flux. Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-date study of language regime change. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (226pages): Numerous fig. |
| ISBN: | 9783110197877 |
| Index Number: | P115 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- On language policy in the age of globalization with -- good governance -- Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating -- plurilingualism? -- Challenges for language policy in today s -- Japan -- Is the promotion of languages such as German and -- Japanese abroad still appropriate today? -- Japanese and German language education in the UK: -- problems, parallels, and prospects -- Changing economic values of German and -- Japanese -- The debate on English as an official language in -- Remains of the day: language orphans and the -- decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan -- The case for choice language preferences in -- Japanese academic publishing -- Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign -- names -- Effects of globalization on minority languages in -- Europe focusing on Celtic languages -- Backmatter |