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 Japan1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers, Mika Fukazawa2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics, Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahira, Gijs van der Lubbe and Patrick Heinrich3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language, Mark Anderson4. Japanese dialects, Shinji Sanada 5. Koine and koineization, Shin Abe6. Language and migration in Japan, Ruriko Otomo7. English in Japan, Ryuko KubotaPartII: The multilingual ecology 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics, John C. Maher9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan, Emi Otsuji10. Linguistic landscape, Peter Backhaus11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan, Sachiyo Fujita-Round12. Japan as a multilingual society, Hiroshi ShojiPartIII: Variation, style and interaction 13. Language variation and change, Kazuko Matsumoto14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices, Rika Yamashita15. Language and social relations, Zi Wang16. Politeness, Yasuko Obana17. Impoliteness, Yukiko Nishimura18.Gendered speech, Yumiko OharaPart IV: Language problems and language planning 19. Language policy and planning, Ruriko Otomo20. Script and orthography problems, Hidenori Masiko21. Literacy and illiteracy, Takeshi Nakashima22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories, Toshiaki Yasuda23. Ainu language shift, Takayuki Okazaki24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands, Mark Anderson25. Language rights, Goro Christoph Kimura Part V: Research overviews 26.Language life (gengo seikatsu), Patrick Heinrich27.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).