Language crisis in the Ryukyus
By: edited by Mark Anderson and Patrick Heinrich
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781443866514
Subjects: Ryukyuan language; Japanese language; Language attrition; Revival
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: In their own words  -- Mark Anderson -- Chapter One.; title: Revitalisation Attempts and Language Attitudes in the Ryukyus  -- Mark Anderson -- Chapter Two.; title: Japanese Language Education in the Meiji Period  -- Sayaka Yoshimura -- Chapter Three.; title: Japanese Language Education in Modern Okinawa until 1945  -- Ken'ichiro Kondo (translated by Yuka Ando) -- Chapter Four.; title: The Politics of the Movement to Enforce Standard Japanese under the U.S. Occupation  -- Masiko Hidenori (translated by Philippa Heming) -- Chapter Five.; title: Language Shift and Language Loss  -- Mark Anderson -- Chapter Six.; title: Language Vitality and Endangerment in the Ryukyus  -- Masahide Ishihara -- Chapter Seven.; title: The Discovery of Okinawa-substrate Japanese as a "We-code": The Language of Okinawan Youth in the 1980s and its Impact  -- Yuko Sugita -- Chapter Eight.; title: Interactional Particles in Okinawan Talk-in-Interaction  -- Katsuyuki Miyahira and Peter Petrucci -- Chapter Nine.; title: Amamian Language Life: Experiences of Migration and "Dialect Correction"  -- Tatsuro Maeda -- Chapter Ten.; title: Community's Efforts to Maintain Uchinaaguchi in São Paulo  -- Peter Petrucci and Katsuyuki Miyahira -- Chapter  Eleven.; title: Proverbs in Uchinaaguchi  -- Kate O'Callaghan -- Chapter Twelve.; title: Don't Leave Ryukyuan Languages Alone: A Roadmap for Language Revitalization  -- Patrick Heinrich -- Chapter Thirteen.; title: It's Not Simply About Language: It's About How We Want to Live -- Tomoko Arakaki and Shinako Oyakawa (Interviewed by Patrick Heinrich).