By Patrick Heinrich
Japan is greatly considered as a version case of profitable language modernization, and it's always erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. there's a connection among those perspectives. because the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, jap language modernizers had to persuade the West that jap was once simply nearly as good a language because the nationwide languages of the West. the outcome was once a fervent wish for linguistic uniformity. at the present time the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many difficulties to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading in the direction of extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity additionally impacts the combination of immigrants and their languages. This ebook examines those concerns from the viewpoint of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms wherein language ideology undermines linguistic variety are revealed.
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