Florian Coulmas

Biographic Data

ID282954
NAMEFlorian Coulmas
GIVEN NAMESFlorian
FAMILY NAMECoulmas
SIGNATURECOULMAS F
AFFILIATIONSDeutsches Institut für Japanstudien Tokyo
ORCID0000-0002-6028-6464
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS79
TOTAL CITATIONS105
AUTHOR COUNT70
EDITOR COUNT9
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Japanese Propriety, Past and Present: Disciplined Liberalism

    Florian CoulmasBOOKJapanese Propriety, Past and…2023

    This book offers a fresh view on Japanese society focussing on the role of comportment for group cohesiveness. It explores the stereotype that Japan is the world’s most polite country, examining how proper conduct is acquired and expressed; and how the apparent conflict with some of the concepts considered essential for Western modernity, such as society, freedom and the individual, are balanced with Japan’s great emphasis on courtesy, politeness…

  • Writing regime change: A research agenda

    Open AccessFlorian CoulmasARTICLESociolinguistica - International…2022

    This essay reviews some of the changes engendered by the digital turn in language attitudes and language behaviour. It compares the current nexus of technology and language with that of print capitalism and examines the dimensions of digital society that have been affected particularly strongly, paying special attention to social practices, Bourdieu’s notion of “legitimate language”, legal issues, and our general understanding of how language wor…

  • Writing and identity

    Open AccessFlorian CoulmasARTICLEWritten Language & Literacy2020

    This essay explores the relationship between writing and an emblematic notion of our age, identity. It describes the symbolic functions of writing for three planes on which it is instrumentalized as a marker of identity, religion, nation and language. The discussion revolves around scriptures as a means of codifying religion, the practical and symbolic functions of writing for modern nation states, and the question of how writing affects linguist…

  • Die Kultur Japans: Tradition und Moderne

    Florian CoulmasBOOKDie Kultur Japans2020

    Ausgehend von der doppelten Frage, was an der japanischen Kultur genuin japanisch und was kulturell bedingt ist, zeigt Florian Coulmas, was die heutige japanische Kultur von anderen unterscheidet, und verdeutlicht, was unter Kultur zu verstehen ist

  • Identity: A Very Short Introduction

    Florian CoulmasBOOKIdentity2019

    The term identity is used ubiquitously, but rarely explained. What exactly is identity? Identity: A Very Short Introduction provides a survey of the many faces of the concept of identity, and discusses its significance and varied meanings in the fields of philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics, as well as politics and law. Tracing our concern with identity to its deep roots in Europe’s intellectual history, individualism, and the felt nee…

  • Maria Sabaté i Dalmau: Migrant communication enterprises. Regimentation and resistance

    Florian Coulmas, Coulmas FlorianARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2018

  • The Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Florian CoulmasBOOKHandbook of Sociolinguistics2017

  • Dear Pr

    Florian CoulmasARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2017

  • Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History

    Florian CoulmasBOOKGuardians of Language2016

    This text provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its use, development, and political potential.

  • Léopold Sédar Senghor

    Florian CoulmasCHAPTERGuardians of Language2016

    Léopold Sédar Senghor grew up in French West Africa, studied in France, became a French citizen, and, against his will, the first President of an independent Senegal. He embodied the tensions and contradictions of decolonization, especially in regard to language policy. In France, he was a member of the Negritude movement to promote recognition of African languages and culture, and in Senegal he became a founding member of Francophonie to promote…

  • Writing systems and language contact in the Euro- and Sinocentric worlds

    Florian CoulmasARTICLEApplied Linguistics Review2014

    On the social level languages contact usually implies hierarchies, reflecting historical processes of adaptation and power relations between groups of speakers. This paper considers language contact in the written mode from the point of view of choice, that is, choice of language and choice of writing system. A wider range of factors that have a bearing on choice in contact situations of languages and their writing systems must be taken into cons…

  • Civil Society and Happiness: Japan and Beyond

    Open AccessTim Tiefenbach, Florian CoulmasARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2014Cited by: 4

  • Writing and Society: An Introduction

    Florian CoulmasBOOKWriting and Society2013

  • Direct and Indirect Speech

    Florian CoulmasBOOKDirect and Indirect Speech2011

  • Writing in Focus

    Florian Coulmas, Konrad EhlichBOOKWriting in Focus2011

  • Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany: A Comparison

    Florian Coulmas, Ralph LützelerBOOKImploding populations in Japan…2011

    List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Population Implosion: Coping with the Unknown, Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler Part I Societies of Population Decline Confronting the Demographic Trilemma of Low Fertility, Ageing and Depopulation, Shigemi Kono Europe's Demographic Future Reiner Klingholz Flexible Employment, Flexible Families, and the Socialization of Reproduction, Wolfgang Streeck Economic Globalization an…

  • Hiroshima: Geschichte und Nachgeschichte

    Florian CoulmasBOOKHiroshima2010

    Die Zerstörung Hiroshimas markiert einen Wendepunkt der Weltgeschichte. Die Stadt ist zu einem Symbol für die Bedrohung der Menschheit durch sich selbst geworden. Florian Coulmas durchleuchtet die politischen, militärischen und technologischen Hintergründe im Zweiten Weltkrieg und schildert wie der bisher einzige Einsatz von Atombomben in Japan und den USA erinnert wird. Dabei legt er das moralische Dilemma offen, das mit der Entwicklung und dem …

  • Introduction: Aging and Language

    Florian Coulmas, Peter BackhausARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2009

  • Language Regimes in Transformation

    Florian CoulmasBOOKLanguage Regimes in Transformation2008

    Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status in their home countries and as foreign languages in third countries is in flux. Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-da…

  • The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan

    Florian Coulmas, Harald Conrad et al.BOOKThe Demographic Challenge2008

    This Handbook explores the challenges demographic change poses to today’s Japan. The first part provides the fundamental data involved, and the subsequent two parts address the social and cultural aspects of Japan’s demographic change. Parts four and five are dedicated to the political, economic and social security aspects of demographic change. The Handbook brings together a group of international scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds to …

  • The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook About Japan

    Florian Coulmas, Harald Conrad et al.BOOKThe Demographic Challenge2008

    This handbook explores the challenges demographic change pose twenty-first century Japan. The first part gives the fundamental data involved, and the subsequent parts address the social, cultural, political, economic and social security aspects of Japan's demographic change

  • Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan

    Annette Schad-Seifert, Florian Coulmas et al.BOOKDemographic Challenge2008

  • Language Regimes in Transformation: Future Prospects for German and Japanese in Science, Economy, and Politics

    Florian CoulmasBOOKLanguage Regimes in Transformation2007

    Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes caused by the spread of English. This book provides an in-depth account of how two highly developed all-purpose national languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process. In the international arena, they no longer compete with English, but their status as foreign languages in third countries as well as in their home countries is in flux. Original empir…

  • Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Florian CoulmasBOOKHandbook of Sociolinguistics2007

  • English monolingualism in scientific communication and progress in science, good or bad

    Open AccessFlorian CoulmasARTICLEAILA Review2007

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