Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

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 intofive 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.

Part I: The languages and language varieties of Japan 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers, Mika Fukazawa 2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics, Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahira, Gijs van der Lubbe and Patrick Heinrich 3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language, Mark Anderson 4. Japanese dialects, Shinji Sanada 5. Koine and koineization, Shin Abe 6. Language and migration in Japan, Ruriko Otomo 7. English in Japan, Ryuko Kubota PartII: The multilingual ecology 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics, John C. Maher 9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan, Emi Otsuji 10. Linguistic landscape, Peter Backhaus 11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan, Sachiyo Fujita-Round 12. Japan as a multilingual society, Hiroshi Shoji PartIII: Variation, style and interaction 13. Language variation and change, Kazuko Matsumoto 14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices, Rika Yamashita 15. Language and social relations, Zi Wang 16. Politeness, Yasuko Obana 17. Impoliteness, Yukiko Nishimura 18.Gendered speech, Yumiko Ohara Part IV: Language problems and language planning 19. Language policy and planning, Ruriko Otomo 20. Script and orthography problems, Hidenori Masiko 21. Literacy and illiteracy, Takeshi Nakashima 22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories, Toshiaki Yasuda 23. Ainu language shift, Takayuki Okazaki 24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands, Mark Anderson 25. Language rights, Goro Christoph Kimura Part V: Research overviews 26.Language life (gengo seikatsu), Patrick Heinrich 27.The study of Japanese language speakers, Riikka Länsisalmi 28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese, Mark Anderson

Patrick Heinrich is Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy, where he teaches Japanese and Ryukyuan sociolinguistics. His recent publications include Urban Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2017) and The Making of Monolingual Japan (2012). Yumiko Ohara is Professor in the College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawai?i at Hilo, USA, where she teaches pragmatics and linguistics of endangered languages. Her publications include Various Approaches to Japanese Discourse (2007).