Exploring attitudes and prestige in the 'heritage language' context: a cross-linguistic perspective

TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED    久しぶりのアカデミアです！Ａｃａｄｅｍｉａ！なかなか読めないですね。 人が追求できるテーマ、それを掘り下げる時間は限られていますね！何ができるかですね。何を進化（深化）させることができるか、ですがー。生きている間の追求で何がどうまとめられるか、ですね。 一人ひとりの物語りの形！ですね。政治家の一過性は魅力があって魅力を感じさせないのはなぜだろう。しかし政治のリーダーは多くの人々に影響を与えますね。ヒットラーのような一人の人物が多くの犠牲をもたらしたとしたら、政治家になるということは覚悟が必要ですね。Dystopiaではない世界のために！ Jonathan Kasstan Queen Mary, University of London, Linguistics, Faculty Member Colloquium: Exploring attitudes and prestige in the 'heritage language' context: a cross-linguistic perspective A recent and expanding body of sociolinguistic research has focused on so-called ‘heritage language’ communities – that is to say, communities maintaining a language spoken by children of immigrants ‘which is not a dominant language of the larger (national) society’ (Rothman 2009: 159). In particular, this research area has called into question how heritage language speakers view their linguistic practices, as couched in the context of language maintenance and shift (e.g. Shin 2005), where attitudes and prestige remain an important predictor of change (cf. Lynch 2014). For example, in...     Makoto Harris Takao The University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Graduate Student Francis Xavier at the Court of Ōtomo Yoshishige: Representations of Religious Disputation between Jesuits and Buddhists in La conversione alla santa fede del re di Bungo giaponese (1703) Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exotic tales of conversion and martyrdom set in Japan played out upon the Jesuit stages of Europe. It is in this way that Japan’s Christian Century (1549–1639) endured in the Jesuit mind as a source of spiritual and creative inspiration. The development of the “Japanese genre” in the acted and musical dramas of the historical Society of Jesus is a scarcely travelled road of research. In exploring this unique performance tradition, the article presents an analysis of the only known example of an oratorio based on a solely Japanese theme:...     John Lie University of California, Berkeley, Sociology, Faculty Member Obasan and Kanryū : Modalities of Convergence of Middle-Aged Japanese Women Around South Korean Popular Culture and Gender Divergence in Japan     Paolo Calvetti Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Asian and North African Studies, Faculty Member Keitai shōsetsu: Mobile Phone Novels Is It True that New Technologies Are Changing the Japanese Language? Keitai shōsetsu, or ‘mobile phone novels’, is a recent social and ‘literary’ phenomenon that started at the beginning of this century and has subsequently become widely diffused in Japan. Novels, often written by amateur authors, are distributed via mobile phones and on the Web, and read by a huge number of people. The subjects and topics of these novels, the young age of the characters depicted, as well as of the vast majority of the addressees of these stories seem to influence the diaphasic factors of the language. For its use of mobile phone technology, keitai shōsetsu also represents a...     Christophe Thouny The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Member Thouny Mechademia 10 The Land of Hope     Andrew Elliott Doshisha University, International Studies, Faculty Member Japan Tourism and the Asia Pacific War International Workshop (18 June 2016) All Welcome!   Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2016 Academia