Linguistic Landscapes - A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo

This book is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs and provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism. It offers an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo.

About the author

Peter Backhaus is research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. His research interests include sociolinguistics, semiotics, writing, and Japanese linguistics. He has published various papers about linguistic landscape research, including 'Signs of multilingualism in Tokyo: A diachronic look at the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175/176, 2005) and 'Multilingualism in Tokyo: A look into the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of Multilingualism 3.1, 2006). At present he is preparing a publication about Japan's linguistic landscape (with Florian Coulmas and Hiroshi Shōji).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Backhaus
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2006
• EAN: 9781853599477
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-947-7
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Multilingual Matters; Multilingual Matters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures