Rethinking language and culture in Japanese education
Subtitle: beyond the standard
By: edited by Shinji Sato and Neriko Musha Doerr
Series: Multilingual Matters -- 155
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781783091843; 9781783091850
Subjects: Language and culture; Japanese language; Study and teaching; Education
Work titles: Bunka, kotoba, kyōiku. English
Description: How does language or culture come to be standardized to the degree that it is considered 'homogeneous'? How does teaching language relate to such standardization processes? How can teaching be mindful of the standardization processes that potentially involve power relations? Focusing on the case of Japanese, which is often viewed as homogenous in terms of language and culture, this volume explores these questions in a wide range of contexts: the notions of translation and modernity, the ideologies of the standardization of regional dialects in Japan, current practices in college Japanese-as-a-
Notes: Originally published in Japanes as Bunka, Kotoba, Kyoika by Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd. in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.