Review of STUDIES IN JAPANESE BILINGUALISM

STUDIES IN JAPANESE BILINGUALISM

Mary Goebel Noguchi (Ritsumeikan University) 
and Sandra Fotos (Senshu University)


KEY FEATURES
* A bilingual Japan creates the need for a new discourse. This baook
  provides the vocabulary for this
* Scope and depth of contributions raise volume above conventional level
  of review of the literature

DESCRIPTION
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 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
öhildren, as well as codeswitching and language attrition in Japanese
contexts. 

CONTENTS
Preface John Maher (International Christian University, Tokyo)
Introduction: The Crumbling of a Myth Mary Goebel Noguchi 
2. Japanese Attitudes Towards Bilingualism Yamamoto Masayo 
   (Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku)
3. Language and Culture Revitalisation in a Hokkaido Ainu Community Fred
   E.Anderson (Fukuoka University of Education) and Masami Iwasaki-Goodman
   (Hokkai Gakuen University); 
4. Language and Identity in Okinawa Today Osumi Midori 
   (Tokyo Woman's Christian University); 
5. Affiliation, not Assimilation: Resident Koreans and Ethnic Education 
   Ann B. Cary (Kobe Women's University); 
6. Japan's Hidden Bilinguals: The Language of "War Orphans" and Their Families
   After Repatriation from China Tomozawa Akie (Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku); 
7. On the Language Environment of Brazilian Immigrants
   in Fujisawa City Hirataka Fumiya, Koishi Atsuko and Kato Yosuke (Keio
   University);  
8. Language Minority Students in Japanese Public Schools
   Sharon Vaipae (Niigata University); 
9. Bilinguality and Bicultural Children in Japan Mary Goebel Noguchi 
   (Ritsumeikan University);  
10.Bilingual Education of Children in Japan Katoh Gakuen; 
11.English/ Japanese Codeswitching Among Students in an International
   High School Yuriko Kite (Kansai University); 
12.Codeswitching by Japan's Unrecognised Bilinguals Sandra Fotos
   (Senshu University); 
13.Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism Lynne Hansen
   (Brigham Young University - Hawaii)

AUTHOR INFORMATION
Mary Goebel Noguchi is a Professor of English in the College of Law at
Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.  In addition to research and
translation in the field of Japanese studies, she has taken an interest
in the development of bilingualism by bicultural children in Japan and
Japanese returnees.  In 1995 she helped found the Japan Journal of
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and has since served as its editor. 
Sandra S. Fotos is a Professor of English at Senshu University, Tokyo,
Japan. Her research interests include bilingualism and the effects of
formal instruction on second language acquisition. She has published in
journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, ELT-Journal and
TESOL Quarterly.  She is editor of the JALT Journal, published by the
Japan Association for Language Teaching.

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism   22   (BE22)
November 2000   Format: 234x156mm       x+400pp
Hbk ISBN 1-85359-490-3  £69.95/ US$99.95/ CAN$139.95
Pbk ISBN  1-85359-489-X £29.95/ US$44.95/ CAN$59.95