Japanese Language, Standard Language, National Language: Rethinking Language and Nation
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https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2013.1.2.21-33Keywords:
language, nation, national language, standard language, Japanese languageAbstract
The paper examines the relationship between language and nation through the historical process by which the modern Japanese language came to exist and proposes a tentative answer as to what this says about the nature of phenomena such as language and nation themselves. The paper suggests that if language is understood as an actually existing natural and definable object, it must indeed be claimed that the Japanese language is no more than a hundred years old.
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Saitō, Mareshi 齋藤希史. 2007. Kanbunmyaku to kindai nihon. Mō hitotsu no kotoba no sekai 漢文脈と近代日本 もう一つのことばの世界 (The Context of kanbun and the Modern Japan: The World of Another Language). Tōkyō: NHK.
Tanaka, Akio 田中章夫. 1996. “Tōkyōgo to hyōjungo” 東京語と標準語 (“Tōkyō Language and Standard Language”). In Tōkyōgo no yukue. Edogo kara tōkyōgo, tōkyōgo kara sutandādo nihongo e 東京語のゆくえ 江戸語から東京語、東京語からスタンダードへ (Towards the Tokyo Language: From Edo Language to Tokyo Language, From Tokyo Language to Standard Language), edited by Kokugakuin daigaku, Nihon bunka kenkyūjo, 21–76. Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan.
Yasuda, Toshiaki 安田敏朗. 2012. Nihongogaku no manazashi 日本語学のまなざし (A Look on the Studies of Japanese Language). Tōkyō: Sangensha.
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29.11.2013
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CULIBERG, L. (2013). Japanese Language, Standard Language, National Language: Rethinking Language and Nation. Asian Studies, 1(2), 21–33. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2013.1.2.21-33
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