John C Maher
Biographic Data
| ID | 456128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Maher |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Maher |
| SIGNATURE | MAHER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Christian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Davies, Alan
Professor Alan Davies, a founding father and major theorist of the field of applied linguistics, is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Davies grew up in South Wales of Welsh‐ and English‐speaking parents. His early linguistic experience provided an awareness of the reality and paradoxes of multilingualism, power, and the politics of language. After taking a degree in English at the University of Oxford and s…
Language Communities in Japan
Heinrich, Patrick, Shinsho Miyara & Michinori Shimoji
Article Heinrich, Patrick, Shinsho Miyara & Michinori Shimoji: Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure and use was published on January 1, 2022 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2022, issue 273)
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Journal Article Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics Get access Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics, by Mark K. Watson. London: Routledge, 2014, 190 pp., $145.00 (ISBN 978-0-415-68753-9) John C. MAHER John C. MAHER International Christian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, Summ…
Between Israel and Lebanon
Nanette Gottlieb , Language and society in Japan
Nanette Gottlieb, Language and society in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 169. Hb 27.99.If Japanese sociolinguistics can be likened in range and complexity to a forest, this book by the sociolinguist and Japan specialist Nanette Gottlieb would best be described as a Kyoto rock garden. It is cool and calm. It lies within a circumscribed landscape and gives pause for thought
Metroethnicity, language, and the principle of Cool
Cultural essentialism and ethnic orthodoxy are out. In Japan, Metroethnicity is in. Cool rules. Metroethnicity is a reconstruction of ethnicity: a hybridized ‘‘street’’ ethnicity deployed by a cross-section of people with ethnic or mainstream backgrounds who are oriented towards cultural hybridity, cultural / ethnic tolerance and a multicultural lifestyle in friendships, music, the arts, eating and dress. Both Japanese and persons with minority b…
The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics
Pyscholinguistic aspects of the native speaker linguistic aspects of the native speaker sociolinguistic aspects of the native speaker lingualism and the knowledge of the native speaker communicative competence aspects of the native speaker intelligibiligy and the speech community who is the native speaker? judgements
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonald and John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism and cultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement, M. William Steele the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, Hideichiro Nakano the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle the right stuff - towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3 Other vo…
Multicultural Japan
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
The kakyo
The Chinese language is traditionally found in the various Chinese communities located in the urban centres of Tokyo‐Yokohama, the Kansai region, and parts of southern Kyushu. Several bilingual (Japanese‐Chinese) schools serve these long‐term resident populations. The importance of the Chinese language in the transmission of knowledge from Continental Asia to Japan was crucial to Japan's development. Medicine, religion, poetry, food, art, clothes…
Multilingual Japan
(1995). Multilingual Japan: An introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 16, No. 1-2, pp. 1-17
On being there
The ethnic Korean resident (Zainichi Kankokujin‐Chosenjin) community is found in variable population concentrations in metropolitan Tokyo, Osaka and many other cities in Japan. Among the sociopolitical issues which affect the lives of Koreans is the current effort being made to maintain the Korean language. Some schools are experimenting with a new approach towards Japanese‐Korean bilingualism and biculturalism which includes the teaching of basi…
European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture
Symbolic values of foreign language use
The Development of English as an International Language of Medicine
Journal Article The Development of English as an International Language of Medicine Get access JOHN MAHER JOHN MAHER University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 206–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/7.2.206 Published: 01 July 1986 Article history Received: 01 June 1985 Published: 01 July 1986
English for Medical Purposes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Metroethnicity, language, and the principle of Cool
Cultural essentialism and ethnic orthodoxy are out. In Japan, Metroethnicity is in. Cool rules. Metroethnicity is a reconstruction of ethnicity: a hybridized ‘‘street’’ ethnicity deployed by a cross-section of people with ethnic or mainstream backgrounds who are oriented towards cultural hybridity, cultural / ethnic tolerance and a multicultural lifestyle in friendships, music, the arts, eating and dress. Both Japanese and persons with minority b…
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Journal Article Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics Get access Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics, by Mark K. Watson. London: Routledge, 2014, 190 pp., $145.00 (ISBN 978-0-415-68753-9) John C. MAHER John C. MAHER International Christian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, Summ…
The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics
Pyscholinguistic aspects of the native speaker linguistic aspects of the native speaker sociolinguistic aspects of the native speaker lingualism and the knowledge of the native speaker communicative competence aspects of the native speaker intelligibiligy and the speech community who is the native speaker? judgements
Multilingual Japan
(1995). Multilingual Japan: An introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 16, No. 1-2, pp. 1-17
On being there
The ethnic Korean resident (Zainichi Kankokujin‐Chosenjin) community is found in variable population concentrations in metropolitan Tokyo, Osaka and many other cities in Japan. Among the sociopolitical issues which affect the lives of Koreans is the current effort being made to maintain the Korean language. Some schools are experimenting with a new approach towards Japanese‐Korean bilingualism and biculturalism which includes the teaching of basi…
European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture
English for Medical Purposes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Development of English as an International Language of Medicine
Journal Article The Development of English as an International Language of Medicine Get access JOHN MAHER JOHN MAHER University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 206–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/7.2.206 Published: 01 July 1986 Article history Received: 01 June 1985 Published: 01 July 1986
English for Medical Purposes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Symbolic values of foreign language use
European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture
The kakyo
The Chinese language is traditionally found in the various Chinese communities located in the urban centres of Tokyo‐Yokohama, the Kansai region, and parts of southern Kyushu. Several bilingual (Japanese‐Chinese) schools serve these long‐term resident populations. The importance of the Chinese language in the transmission of knowledge from Continental Asia to Japan was crucial to Japan's development. Medicine, religion, poetry, food, art, clothes…
Multilingual Japan
(1995). Multilingual Japan: An introduction. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 16, No. 1-2, pp. 1-17
On being there
The ethnic Korean resident (Zainichi Kankokujin‐Chosenjin) community is found in variable population concentrations in metropolitan Tokyo, Osaka and many other cities in Japan. Among the sociopolitical issues which affect the lives of Koreans is the current effort being made to maintain the Korean language. Some schools are experimenting with a new approach towards Japanese‐Korean bilingualism and biculturalism which includes the teaching of basi…
Multicultural Japan
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics
Pyscholinguistic aspects of the native speaker linguistic aspects of the native speaker sociolinguistic aspects of the native speaker lingualism and the knowledge of the native speaker communicative competence aspects of the native speaker intelligibiligy and the speech community who is the native speaker? judgements
Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language
Part 1 Introduction: culture and diversity in Japan, Gaynor Macdonald and John C. Maher. Part 2 Historical and cultural frameworks: nationalism and cultural pluralism in modern Japan - Soetsu Yanagi and the Mingei Movement, M. William Steele the sociology of ethnocentrism in Japan, Hideichiro Nakano the Ainu - construction of an image, Richard Siddle the right stuff - towards environmental liguistics, John C. Maher and Charles Li. Part 3 Other vo…
Metroethnicity, language, and the principle of Cool
Cultural essentialism and ethnic orthodoxy are out. In Japan, Metroethnicity is in. Cool rules. Metroethnicity is a reconstruction of ethnicity: a hybridized ‘‘street’’ ethnicity deployed by a cross-section of people with ethnic or mainstream backgrounds who are oriented towards cultural hybridity, cultural / ethnic tolerance and a multicultural lifestyle in friendships, music, the arts, eating and dress. Both Japanese and persons with minority b…
Nanette Gottlieb , Language and society in Japan
Nanette Gottlieb, Language and society in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 169. Hb 27.99.If Japanese sociolinguistics can be likened in range and complexity to a forest, this book by the sociolinguist and Japan specialist Nanette Gottlieb would best be described as a Kyoto rock garden. It is cool and calm. It lies within a circumscribed landscape and gives pause for thought
Between Israel and Lebanon
Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Journal Article Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics Get access Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics, by Mark K. Watson. London: Routledge, 2014, 190 pp., $145.00 (ISBN 978-0-415-68753-9) John C. MAHER John C. MAHER International Christian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, Summ…
Language Communities in Japan
Heinrich, Patrick, Shinsho Miyara & Michinori Shimoji
Article Heinrich, Patrick, Shinsho Miyara & Michinori Shimoji: Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure and use was published on January 1, 2022 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2022, issue 273)
Davies, Alan
Professor Alan Davies, a founding father and major theorist of the field of applied linguistics, is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Davies grew up in South Wales of Welsh‐ and English‐speaking parents. His early linguistic experience provided an awareness of the reality and paradoxes of multilingualism, power, and the politics of language. After taking a degree in English at the University of Oxford and s…
Sociology (14 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Multiculturalism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)