Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language
modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be
linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two
views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized,
Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that
Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of
the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic
uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses
many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous
minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this
purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of
immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues
from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the
mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic
diversity are revealed.
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