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Book SynopsisStudies in Japanese Bilingualism helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering twelve empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including Ainu revitalisation, Korean language maintenance, creative use of Ryukyuan languages in Okinawa, English immersion, and language use by Nikkei immigrants, Chinese "War Orphans" and bicultural children, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese contexts.
Table of ContentsJohn C. Maher: Preface
1 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Introduction: The Crumbling of a Myth
2 Yamamoto Masayo: Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: A Survey and Its Implications
3 Fred E. Anderson and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman: Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community
4 Osumi Midori: Language and Identity in Okinawa Today
5 Ann B. Cary: Affiliation, Not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education
6 Tomozawa Akie: Japan’s Hidden Bilinguals: The Languages of ‘War Orphans’ and their Families after Repatriation from China
7 Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke: On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants in Fujisawa City
8 Sharon Seibert Vaipae: Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools
9 Mary Goebel Noguchi: Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan: A Pilot Survey of Factors Linked to Active English-Japanese Bilingualism
10 R. Michael Bostwick: Bilingual Education of Children in Japan: Year Four of a Partial Immersion Programme
11 Yuriko Kite: English/Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International High School
12 Sandra Fotos: Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals: Japanese University Students' Use of Their Native Language as a Learning Strategy
13 Lynne Hansen: Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism
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