Language Change in East Asia
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: January 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780700713776
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; East & Southeast Asian Languages; Language; East Asia, Far East; General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Linguistics
First sentence: Japan today has a well-established standards language, but despite the dominant 'paradigm of homogeneity' (Weiner 1997: xiii), a wide range of regional dialects, rural and urban and differing from the standard to varying degrees, co-exist alongside the standard language.