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Linguistic Landscapes - A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo

English · Hardback

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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.

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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

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