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This book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Contemporary Japan displays rich linguistic diversity, particula

The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: ‘Japanese citizenship’ means ‘Japanese e

This book presents a new outlook on the language situation in Japan and provides a sociolinguistic profile of the language situation of the older mother tongues

A survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan includes the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English as well

Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express di