Language, Nation, Race Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)

Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a "national language" (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Ja...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland University of California Press 2021
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