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 "national language" (kokugo) was produced in order to standardize the Japanese language. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various ref...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ueda, Atsuko, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2021]
Colección:New interventions in Japanese studies.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654238806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Competing "languages" : "sound" in the orthographic reforms of early Meiji Japan
  • Sound, scripts, and styles : Kanbun kundokutai and the national language reforms of 1880s Japan
  • Zoku as aesthetic criterion : reforms for poetry and prose
  • Racializing the national language : Ueda Kazutoshi's Kokugo reform
  • Tropes of racialization in the works of Natsume Sōseki.