Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo

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Peter Backhaus
Multilingual Matters, 1 jan 2007 - 158 pagina's
Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs. It provides 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. Linguistic Landscapes demonstrates that the study of language on signs provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism.
 

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An Overview
12
Landscapes of Europe
28
Signs of Multilingualism in Tokyo
64
Conclusions
141
The 28 Survey Areas
147
Index
156
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Over de auteur (2007)

Peter 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 ShÅ ji).

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