John C. Maher: Introduction: Tradition in motion
Part I: National Languages
1: Kazuko Matsumoto: Japanese in the world: The diaspora
communities
2: Junko Hibiya: Japanese in Japan: The national language and
regional varieties
3: Patrick Heinrich: Language communities of the Northern Ryukyus:
Okinawan, Amami, and Kunigami
4: Sachiyo Fujita-Round: Language communities of the Southern
Ryukyus: Miyako, Yaeyama, and Yonaguni
5: Norie Oka: Japanese Sign Language: A language of the deaf
community
6: Hidetoshi Shiraishi: Ainu: An urban-rural indigenous language of
the North
Part II: Community Languages
7: Hye-Gyeong Ohe: Korean: Ancient and modern transnational links
of language and culture
8: Shi Jie: Chinese: A historic language of cultural influence
9: Lucila Etsuko Gibo: Portuguese: Diaspora, ethnolinguistic
vitality, and cultural influence
10: Daniel Quintero: Spanish: From Renaissance missionaries to the
Nikkeijin community
11: Rika Yamashita: Urdu and Hindi: Languages of urban
transnational business and culture
12: Tina Shrestha: Nepali: Outmigration and the evolving
diaspora
13: Mayumi Adachi: Vietnamese: From refugee community to cultural
transitions
14: Sachi Takahata: Filipino: A nationwide migrant language and
culture
15: Kosei Otsuka: Burmese: Refugees and Little Yangon
16: John C. Maher: Turkish, Kurdish, and Uighur: Linguistic and
political presence from the Meiji period
17: Hourieh Akbari: Persian: Migration waves and
diversification
Part III: Languages of Culture, Politics, and Modernization
18: Simon Cookson: English: International language of work,
learning, and education
19: Florian Coulmas: Dutch and German: Mediator languages of
science, politics, and law
20: Simon Tuchais: French: Culture, linguistic landscape, and
modernization
21: Petr Podalko: Russian: A historical language community and
Russian language education
22: Kimura Goro Christoph and Gotoo Hitosi: Esperanto:
Internationalism, dialogue, and an evolving community
23: John C. Maher: Latin and Sanskrit: Hidden Christians, Buddhism,
and religious scholarship
Afterword
References
Index
John C. Maher is Professor of Linguistics at International
Christian University, Tokyo, specializing in sociolinguistics. He
has previously held positions at the University of Edinburgh, St.
Antony's College, Oxford, and De La Salle University, Manila. His
many publications in both English and Japanese include Introducing
Chomsky (Multilingual Matters, 1995), and Multilingualism: A Very
Short Introduction (OUP, 2017) and, as co-editor with Kyoko
Yashiro, Multilingual Japan (Multilingual Matters, 1995). He is a
founding member of the Japan Association of the Sociolinguistic
Sciences.
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