Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

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Acknowledgements --
Conventions --
I. The languages and language varieties of Japan: 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers / Mika Fukazawa --
2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics / Masahide Ishihara, Katsuyuki Miyahara, Gijs van der Lubbe, Patrick Heinrich --
3. Ryukyu-substrate Japanese: Contact effects on the replacing language / Mark Anderson --
4. Japanese dialects / Shinji Sanada --
5. Koine and koineization / Shin Abe --
6. Language and migration in Japan / Ruriko Otomo --
7. English in Japan / Ryuko Kubota --
II. The multilingual ecology: 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics / John C. Maher --
9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan / Emi Otsuji --
10. Linguistic landscape / Peter Backhaus --
11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan / Sachiyo Fujita-Round --
12. Japan as a multilingual society / Hiroshi Shoji --
III. Variation, style and interaction: 13. Language variation and change / Kazuko Matsumoto --
14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices / Rika Yamashita --
15. Language and social relations / Zi Wang --
16. Politeness / Yasuko Obana --
17. Impoliteness / Yukiko Nishimura --
18. Gendered speech / Yumiko Ohara --
IV. Language problems and language planning: 19. Language policy and planning / Ruriko Otomo --
20. Script and orthography problems / Hidenori Masiko --
21. Literacy and illiteracy / Takeshi Nakashima --
22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories / Toshiaki Yasuda --
23. Ainu language shift / Takayuki Okazaki --
24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands / Mark Anderson --
25. Language rights / Goro Christoph Kimura --
V. Research Overviews: 26. Language life (gengo seikatsu) / Patrick Heinrich --
27. The study of Japanese language speakers / Riikka Länsisalmi --
28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese / Mark Anderson.