Cultural Pluralism in Japan : A Sociolinguistic Outline

要旨

Japan is generally said to be a mono­ ethnic, mono-cultural, and monO-lingual society. But it is not true. In this short paper, I would like to speak for a small number of people in Japan who have started to reconsider the Japanese social structure in terms of linguistic and cultural pluralism. Our observa­ tion will be, then, from a worm's-eye­ view, rather than from a bird's-eye­ view, because a localized down-to-earth point of view is essential when we try to understand human struggles for self­ identity. I will choose six sociolin­ guistic topics from the fields in which I have been working in Japan: 1) biNobuyuki Honna is Associate Professor of linguis­ tics and sociolinguistics at Kinjo Gakuin Univer­ sity, Nagoya.

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