The ideology of kokugo
Subtitle: nationalizing language in modern Japan
By: Lee Yeounsuk ; translated by Maki Hirano Hubbard.
Edition: English-language ed.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780824833053
Subjects: Japanese language -- Philosophy; Language policy -- Japan
Work titles: Kokugo to iu shisō.
Notes: "Originally published in Japanese in 1996 by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.

Translated from the Japanese.
Table of contents: title: Language and the imagined community; title: The Japanese language before kokugo : views of Mori Arinori and Baba Tatsui; title: Perspectives on kokuji, the national script; title: Genbun itchi and kokugo; title: The creation of kokugo; title: The early period of Ueda Kazutoshi; title: Kokugo and kokka; title: From kokugo studies to kokugo politics; title: Hoshina Kōichi : a forgotten scholar; title: The history of kokugogaku; title: Tradition and reform in kokugo; title: The ideology of hyōjungo; title: Korea and Poland; title: What is assimilation?; title: Manchukuo and the state language; title: Language for the co-prosperity sphere and the internationalization of the Japanese language.