Language, Nation, Race Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) (Edition 1)

• Tác giả chính: Ueda, Atsuko (auth)
• Định dạng: Điện tử Chương của sách
• Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
• Được phát hành: University of California Press 2021
• Những chủ đề: Historical & comparative linguistics; Asian history; Anthologies (non-poetry); Language Arts & Disciplines; Linguistics; Historical & Comparative; History; Asia; Japan; Literary Collections; Asian; Japanese
• Truy cập trực tuyến: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Tóm tắt

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a "national language" (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.

số ISBN

/doi.org/10.1525/luminos.103
9780520381728

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Open Access