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Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Student: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781853599460)
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xThis book is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs and provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism. It offers an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo.
Author: Peter Backhaus
ISBN-10: 1853599468
ISBN-13: 9781853599460
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2006
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 230
By Peter Backhaus
xPeter Backhaus is research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. His research interests include sociolinguistics, semiotics, writing, and Japanese linguistics. He has published various papers about linguistic landscape research, including 'Signs of multilingualism in Tokyo: A diachronic look at the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175/176, 2005) and 'Multilingualism in Tokyo: A look into the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of Multilingualism 3.1, 2006). At present he is preparing a publication about Japan's linguistic landscape (with Florian Coulmas and Hiroshi Shōji).
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