The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan 9780824837617
Available for the first time in English, The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan (1996) is Lee Ye
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Table of contents :
Contents
Translator’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Language and the Imagined Community
Introduction: The Japanese Language before Kokugo: Views of Mori Arinori and Baba Tatsui
PART I: Kokugo Issues in Early Meiji
Chapter 1. Perspectives on Kokuji, the National Script
Chapter 2. Genbun Itchi and Kokugo
Chapter 3. The Creation of Kokugo
Part II: Ueda Kazutoshi and His Ideas about Language
Chapter 4. The Early Period of Ueda Kazutoshi
Chapter 5. Kokugo and Kokka
Chapter 6. From Kokugo Studies to Kokugo Politics
Part III: Kokugogaku and Linguistics
Chapter 7. Hoshina Kōichi—a Forgotten Scholar
Chapter 8. The History of Kokugogaku
Chapter 9. Tradition and Reform in Kokugo
Part IV: Hoshina Ko-ichi and His Language Policies
Chapter 10. The Ideology of Hyōjungo
Chapter 11. Korea and Poland
Chapter 12. What Is Assimilation?
Chapter 13. Manchukuo and the State Language
Chapter 14. Language for the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Internationalization of the Japanese Language
Chapter 15. Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author and Translator
