Towards Theoretical Approach to the Understanding of Language Ideologies in Post-Meiji Japan
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.1.23-38Keywords:
Japan, language, nation, ideology, theory, historical materialismAbstract
The paper wishes to examine the specific conditions that have generated the understanding of language in post-Meiji Japan and propose a theoretical approach to the question why a specific view on language, or to use a more precise concept – a language ideology, was, and still is, inevitable within a specific ideological horizon – the horizon of nationalism. In order to do so, it first gives an overview of the linguistic situation in post-Meiji Japan with all its competing and opposing views, following with an outline of the up to date research, its breakthroughs, its problems and its dead ends. Finally it proposes the orthodox method of dialectical materialism as a possibly only methodological approach hoping to grasp all these connected social problems in their totality.
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Joseph, J. E. (2004). Language and identity: national, ethnic, religious. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Karatani, K. (1995). Nationalism and écriture. Surfaces, V(201). Retrieved from http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol5/karatani.pdf
Kindaichi, H. (1988). Nippongo. Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami shoten.
Kordić, S. (2010). Jezik i nacionalizam [Language and Nationalism]. Zagreb, Croatia: Durieux.
Lee, Y. (1996). "Kokugo" to iu shisō: kindai nihon no gengo ninshiki. Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami shoten.
Lukács, G. (1919). What is orthodox Marxism?. In Marxists internet archive. Retrieved February 28, 2011, from http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/orthodox.htm
Makoni, S., & Pennycook, A. (Eds.). (2007). Disinventing and reconstituting languages. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Močnik, R. (1999). 3 teorije: ideologija, nacija, institucija. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Založba /*cf.
Program Hrvatskoga kulturnog vijeća. (2006, October 3). In Portal Hrvatskoga kulturnog vijeća. Retrieved March 7, 2011, from http://hakave.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=129
Tanaka, H. (1994). Modern Japan and Western Democracy: The Conflict between Liberalism and Nationalism. Hitotsubashi journal of social studies, 26(2), 55–61. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10086/8375.
Tanaka, K. (1989). The ideology of national and state language. Hitotsubashi journal of social studies, 21(1), 167–174. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10086/8416.
Tanaka, K. (2004). Kotoba to wa nani ka?: Gengogaku toiu bōken. Tokyo, Japan: Chikuma Shobō.
Ueda, A. (2008). Sound, scripts, and styles: Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan. Review of Japanese culture and society, 20, 131-154. Retrieved February 27, 2011, from http://www.princeton.edu/~piirs/projects/Ueda paper Nov09.pdf
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Yasuda, T. (2006). "Kokugo" no kindaishi: teikoku nihon to kokugo gakusha tachi. Tokyo, Japan: Chūōkōron-shinsha.
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18.05.2011
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CULIBERG, L. (2011). Towards Theoretical Approach to the Understanding of Language Ideologies in Post-Meiji Japan. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 1(1), 23–38. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.1.23-38
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