P Heinrich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 31542 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Heinrich |
| PRENOMES | P |
| SOBRENOME | Heinrich |
| ASSINATURA | HEINRICH P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dokkyo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6717-3684 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Foreign Language Learning in a Welfare Linguistics Framework
This chapter outlines language learning in a welfare linguistics framework. It draws on two axioms of welfare economics according to which (1) profit for society can be maximized by (2) balancing out consumer and producer interests. When applying these axioms to language, the concepts of price and units of sale must be replaced by linguistic capital and norm expectations. This chapter first introduces readers to basic concepts of welfare economic…
Ryukyuan Perspectives for Language Reclamation
If languages are naturally transmitted in a stable self-regulatory society (Fishman 1991, p
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift
This paper analyses the loss of politeness markers across three generations in the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan. Honorific registers are first lost in endangered languages, and last speakers of an endangered language often state that they avoid using the language to semi-speakers because they do not use polite registers. We give an overview of language endangerment, analyse how individuals reflect on politeness markers, and how language loss and the…
Waves of Language Diversity Loss in Japan
Linguistic diversity has seen two large waves of the loss of linguistic diversity across history. The first wave occurred with the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies, a process that started 11,000 years ago with the Neolithic revolution when agrarian societies colonized territories of hunter-gatherer communities. The second wave started with the establishment of modern nation states and the creation and diffusion of nationa…
Language-in-education policies
This book examines the ideological underpinnings of language-in-education policies that explicitly focus on adding a new language to the learners’ existing repertoire. It examines policies for foreign languages, immigrant languages, indigenous languages and external language spread. Each of these contexts provides for different possible relationships between the language learner and the target language group and shows how in different polities di…
Hōgen ronsō
This paper analyzes a language ideological debate in which the status and utility of the Ryukyuan languages were discussed.One fraction supported the continuous oppression of the Ryukyuan languages as an inevitable means for Standard Japanese language spread in the Ryukyus.Their critics called for calmer judgment, pointing out the cultural value of the Ryukyuan languages.In the course of the debate, opposing visions of future linguistic orders in…
The return of Hawaiian
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
A framework for language endangerment dynamics
This paper argues for a new perspective on the study of language endangerment dynamics where diversity serves not only as a yardstick for assessing equality, but represents the very basis of equality. To this end, we propose a unified framework accounting for the ecology of languages and language diversity loss. Different ways of economically organizing communities result in power differentials. In cases of contact between them, the language ecol…
Language Choices at Naha Airport
This paper investigates regimented language choices at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture in order to study how these language choices relate to language ideology on one hand and to creating a self-supporting language ecology of maximum diversity on the other. Issues of power and ideology underlie the language choice and the language ecology which evolve from them, as well as ideologically erased language choices. Despite its multilingual heritag…
The politics of language and nationalism in modern Central Europe, by Tomasz Kamusella
The Ryukyus and the New, But Endangered, Languages of Japan
On 21 February 2009, the international mother language day, UNESCO launched the online version of its 'Atlas of the world's languages in danger'. This electronic version that will also be published as the third edition of the UNESCO Atlas in May 2009, now includes the Luchuan [Ryukyuan] languages of Japan (UNESCO 2009). 'Luchuan' is the Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) term for the Japanese 'Ryukyu'. Likewise 'Okinawa' is 'Uchinaa' in Uchinaaguch…
"Wanne Uchinanchu - I am Okinawan." Japan, the US and Okinawa's Endangered Languages
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Things you have to leave behind
The paper examines the abandonment of an established style of writing called gabun ‘elegant writing’ and the emergence of a new style termed genbun itchi ‘unity of spoken and written language’ in nineteenth century Japan, focusing on a language ideological debate that occurred in 1889 in a journal called Bun . The stylistic reform of written Japanese was one of the most contested reforms during Japan’s modernisation and it is the aim of the prese…
Language ideology in JFL textbooks
This study analyzes language ideology as it surfaces in Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) teaching materials. The perspective presented in selected materials is examined with respect to how the target language is portrayed. Furthermore, portrayals of foreign language learners and their relationship with Japanese are studied. It is argued that teaching materials propagate and thereby legitimize socially accepted knowledge, which has its origin …
Language Loss and Revitalization in the Ryukyu Islands
One element contributing to Okinawa's "difference" from the Japanese mainland is the existence in Okinawa of languages that are unintelligible to mainland Japanese. Paul Heinrich takes up the topic of language in Okinawa and, as he makes amply clear, the situation is complicated and, from the standpoint of language preservation, dire. In Heinrich's assessment, the Ryukyu Islands are home to five different, mutually unintelligible language groups.…
Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands
Gengo Seikatsuþ
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese linguistics after 1945. Within the post-war studies a distinction can be drawn between an empirical approach at the National Japanese Language Research Institute a…
Gengo seikatsu
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese linguistics after 1945. Within the post-war studies a distinction can be drawn between an empirical approach at the National Japanese Language Research Institute a…
Visions of Community
This paper discusses language policy behind the spread of Japanese among Japanese linguistic majorities and Japanese colonial subjects. The period discussed stretches from 1868, the year of the Meiji restoration, until 1945, when Japan withdrew from all its colonies. Policies in four polities are discussed: Ainu Mosir (Hokkaidō), the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Korea. In Japan, modernization included aspects of colonialism and colonialist features…
Japan
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan
The return of Hawaiian
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
Language Choices at Naha Airport
This paper investigates regimented language choices at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture in order to study how these language choices relate to language ideology on one hand and to creating a self-supporting language ecology of maximum diversity on the other. Issues of power and ideology underlie the language choice and the language ecology which evolve from them, as well as ideologically erased language choices. Despite its multilingual heritag…
Hōgen ronsō
This paper analyzes a language ideological debate in which the status and utility of the Ryukyuan languages were discussed.One fraction supported the continuous oppression of the Ryukyuan languages as an inevitable means for Standard Japanese language spread in the Ryukyus.Their critics called for calmer judgment, pointing out the cultural value of the Ryukyuan languages.In the course of the debate, opposing visions of future linguistic orders in…
A framework for language endangerment dynamics
This paper argues for a new perspective on the study of language endangerment dynamics where diversity serves not only as a yardstick for assessing equality, but represents the very basis of equality. To this end, we propose a unified framework accounting for the ecology of languages and language diversity loss. Different ways of economically organizing communities result in power differentials. In cases of contact between them, the language ecol…
Things you have to leave behind
The paper examines the abandonment of an established style of writing called gabun ‘elegant writing’ and the emergence of a new style termed genbun itchi ‘unity of spoken and written language’ in nineteenth century Japan, focusing on a language ideological debate that occurred in 1889 in a journal called Bun . The stylistic reform of written Japanese was one of the most contested reforms during Japan’s modernisation and it is the aim of the prese…
Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands
Gengo Seikatsuþ
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese linguistics after 1945. Within the post-war studies a distinction can be drawn between an empirical approach at the National Japanese Language Research Institute a…
Gengo Seikatsuþ
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese linguistics after 1945. Within the post-war studies a distinction can be drawn between an empirical approach at the National Japanese Language Research Institute a…
Gengo seikatsu
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese linguistics after 1945. Within the post-war studies a distinction can be drawn between an empirical approach at the National Japanese Language Research Institute a…
Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands
Things you have to leave behind
The paper examines the abandonment of an established style of writing called gabun ‘elegant writing’ and the emergence of a new style termed genbun itchi ‘unity of spoken and written language’ in nineteenth century Japan, focusing on a language ideological debate that occurred in 1889 in a journal called Bun . The stylistic reform of written Japanese was one of the most contested reforms during Japan’s modernisation and it is the aim of the prese…
Language ideology in JFL textbooks
This study analyzes language ideology as it surfaces in Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) teaching materials. The perspective presented in selected materials is examined with respect to how the target language is portrayed. Furthermore, portrayals of foreign language learners and their relationship with Japanese are studied. It is argued that teaching materials propagate and thereby legitimize socially accepted knowledge, which has its origin …
Language Loss and Revitalization in the Ryukyu Islands
One element contributing to Okinawa's "difference" from the Japanese mainland is the existence in Okinawa of languages that are unintelligible to mainland Japanese. Paul Heinrich takes up the topic of language in Okinawa and, as he makes amply clear, the situation is complicated and, from the standpoint of language preservation, dire. In Heinrich's assessment, the Ryukyu Islands are home to five different, mutually unintelligible language groups.…
"Wanne Uchinanchu - I am Okinawan." Japan, the US and Okinawa's Endangered Languages
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The politics of language and nationalism in modern Central Europe, by Tomasz Kamusella
The Ryukyus and the New, But Endangered, Languages of Japan
On 21 February 2009, the international mother language day, UNESCO launched the online version of its 'Atlas of the world's languages in danger'. This electronic version that will also be published as the third edition of the UNESCO Atlas in May 2009, now includes the Luchuan [Ryukyuan] languages of Japan (UNESCO 2009). 'Luchuan' is the Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) term for the Japanese 'Ryukyu'. Likewise 'Okinawa' is 'Uchinaa' in Uchinaaguch…
Language Choices at Naha Airport
This paper investigates regimented language choices at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture in order to study how these language choices relate to language ideology on one hand and to creating a self-supporting language ecology of maximum diversity on the other. Issues of power and ideology underlie the language choice and the language ecology which evolve from them, as well as ideologically erased language choices. Despite its multilingual heritag…
A framework for language endangerment dynamics
This paper argues for a new perspective on the study of language endangerment dynamics where diversity serves not only as a yardstick for assessing equality, but represents the very basis of equality. To this end, we propose a unified framework accounting for the ecology of languages and language diversity loss. Different ways of economically organizing communities result in power differentials. In cases of contact between them, the language ecol…
Hōgen ronsō
This paper analyzes a language ideological debate in which the status and utility of the Ryukyuan languages were discussed.One fraction supported the continuous oppression of the Ryukyuan languages as an inevitable means for Standard Japanese language spread in the Ryukyus.Their critics called for calmer judgment, pointing out the cultural value of the Ryukyuan languages.In the course of the debate, opposing visions of future linguistic orders in…
The return of Hawaiian
Some 40 years ago, language transmission in Hawai‘i was interrupted among Hawaiians across all islands with the sole exception of language maintenance among a small community on the tiny, isolated Ni‘ihau Island. Today, Hawaiian has returned as spoken and written medium with some 5000–7000 new speakers. The present paper provides an up-to-date account of the sociolinguistic situation in Hawai‘i, and depicts the language ecological environment whi…
Language-in-education policies
This book examines the ideological underpinnings of language-in-education policies that explicitly focus on adding a new language to the learners’ existing repertoire. It examines policies for foreign languages, immigrant languages, indigenous languages and external language spread. Each of these contexts provides for different possible relationships between the language learner and the target language group and shows how in different polities di…
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift
This paper analyses the loss of politeness markers across three generations in the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan. Honorific registers are first lost in endangered languages, and last speakers of an endangered language often state that they avoid using the language to semi-speakers because they do not use polite registers. We give an overview of language endangerment, analyse how individuals reflect on politeness markers, and how language loss and the…
Waves of Language Diversity Loss in Japan
Linguistic diversity has seen two large waves of the loss of linguistic diversity across history. The first wave occurred with the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies, a process that started 11,000 years ago with the Neolithic revolution when agrarian societies colonized territories of hunter-gatherer communities. The second wave started with the establishment of modern nation states and the creation and diffusion of nationa…
Ryukyuan Perspectives for Language Reclamation
If languages are naturally transmitted in a stable self-regulatory society (Fishman 1991, p
Visions of Community
This paper discusses language policy behind the spread of Japanese among Japanese linguistic majorities and Japanese colonial subjects. The period discussed stretches from 1868, the year of the Meiji restoration, until 1945, when Japan withdrew from all its colonies. Policies in four polities are discussed: Ainu Mosir (Hokkaidō), the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Korea. In Japan, modernization included aspects of colonialism and colonialist features…
Japan
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan
Foreign Language Learning in a Welfare Linguistics Framework
This chapter outlines language learning in a welfare linguistics framework. It draws on two axioms of welfare economics according to which (1) profit for society can be maximized by (2) balancing out consumer and producer interests. When applying these axioms to language, the concepts of price and units of sale must be replaced by linguistic capital and norm expectations. This chapter first introduces readers to basic concepts of welfare economic…
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