Gengo seikatsu

The study of language life in Japan, 1945-1995

Bibliographic Data

ID3954658
AuthorsP Heinrich (0000-0001-6717-3684, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume29
Issue1-2
Pages95-119
Publication date2002-08-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.29.1.08hei
OpenAlexW2029326046
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

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 and a theoretical approach by Motoki Tokieda (1900-1967). A first wave of language life studies subsided in the 1960s, the empirical approach was, however, revived and further developed in the seventies finding support in sociolinguistics. Language life was finally displaced by sociolinguistics in the mid-eighties

Applied linguistics · Dialectology · Indigenous · Linguistics · Quantitative linguistics · Sociocultural linguistics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy