Language, nation, race : : linguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) / / Atsuko Ueda.
"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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| Superior document: | New interventions in Japanese studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New interventions in Japanese studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (172 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.