Publisher: Beloit College ‘10 Date: 2010 Pages: 52 This is a Kansai-ben Survival Manual for Beloit College students' successful study abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan.
Second Edition. — Brill, 2007. — 296 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 21). Japanese culture, marked both by a strong character and by a continuing absorption of foreign elements, is surprising for its ability of ptopetual renewal without loss of identity. The country's industrial organization and productivity have ensured an impact on world affairs far exceeding the...
Brill, 2004. — 296 p. — ISBN: 9004139494. This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special...
Routledge, 2011. — 252 p. — (Routledge contemporary Japan series). — ISBN: 978-0-203-84667-4. Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan’s autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. — 1076 p. — (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 7). This volume is the first full-fledged handbook of Japanese dialects in English. The study of Japanese dialects has a long tradition, and significant contributions have been made in many subfields of linguistics such as geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, philology, phonology, accentology,...
Editors: Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos Publisher: Multilingual Matters Date: 2001 Pages: 400 ISBN10: 1853594903 ISBN13: 978-1853594908 Language: English Studies 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...
Tuttle Publishing, 1995. — 173 p. — ISBN: 0804820171. Maido, maido and welcome to Kinki Japan, the land of historic temples, beautiful geiko, majestic mountains, and a vibrant, growing economy. Kindly leave your shoes and Tokyo dialect by the door. Remember to open your mouth when you speak here. If you like, you can roll your r's all the way down Mt. Rokko. The more expression...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0-521-36070-6; ISBN: 0-521-36918-5. This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is the most comprehensive...
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