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The modernization of the Japanese system of communication1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

J. V. Neustupný
J. V. Neustupný
Affiliation:
Department of Japanese, Monash University
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, the author wishes to suggest an evolutionary typology of languages (early modern, modern, contemporary, etc.) and to specify the position of present day Japanese on this evolutionary scale. Secondly, it suggests a way to integrate the concept of linguistic modernization with a theory of language problems, and shows that for modernization at least two types of processes, macro-modernization and micro-modernization, must be distinguished. The former concerns such tasks as the establishment of a modern national language and as far as Japan is concerned this process has been completed. The latter process concerns problems such as the individual's use of language. It still awaits its completion. (Sociolinguistic typology, language evolution, linguistic modernization, Japan.)

Type
Articles: Problems of choice in language change
Information
Language in Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1974 , pp. 33 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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