Ideologies of Communication in Japan

Patrick Heinrich is a professor of Sociolinguistics and Japanese Studies at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He is the author of The Making of Monolingual Japan (Multilingual Matters, 2012), and his many edited books include The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages (de Gruyter Mouton, 2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2019).Florian Grosser is a doctoral student and project assistant at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. He is interested in ideologies of language (learning) and narratives of lived experiences of language(s) in contemporary Japan.Saana Santalahti is a doctoral student in the Doctoral Programme in Language Studies (HELSLANG) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is especially interested in the sociolinguistics of Ainu and the Ryukyuan languages.

• Tables and FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsConventionsChapter 1. Florian Grosser, Patrick Heinrich, Saana Santalahti: Ideologies of Communication in Japan: An Introduction and OverviewPart 1. International EncountersChapter 2. Riikka Länsisalmi: Constructing the 'seikatsusha' through Japanese as a Second Language: Ideologies of Communication in Language Education Policy and Locally Produced Learning MaterialsChapter 3. Kayoko Hashimoto: Monolingual Approach and Multilingual Learners: A New Phase of Japanese Language Education Policy Chapter 4. Jae DiBello Takeuchi: L2 Japanese Speakers and Language Ideologies: The Impact of Monolingual Bias on Beliefs about Unwanted Code-Switching                      Chapter 5. Florian Grosser: Emotion, Competence and Context in a Multilingual Relationship: A Metapragmatic PerspectiveChapter 6. Patrick Heinrich: Ameyoko Shopping Street in Tokyo: Urban Space as an Ideological Palimpsest    Part 2. Mediated Communication in the Digital AgeChapter 7. Wesley C. Robertson: Orthography, Identity and Ideology: Script Variation as a Social Practice in Japan(ese)Chapter 8. Eugenia Diegoli: Normative Practices of Linguistic Correction on Hatsugen Komachi: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to (Meta)discourses around Linguistic 'Mistakes'Chapter 9. Lorenzo Moretti: Enregisterment, Indexicality and Iconisation in Contemporary Japanese Fictionalised Orality: Creativity of Independent Game Developers in Written Video Game DialogueChapter 10. Francesco Vitucci: Language Ideologies and Gender Stereotypes: Representation of Adult Masculine Speech in the Japanese Dub of the American Series Never Have I EverPart 3. Minoritized CommunitiesChapter 11. Takeshi Nakashima: Ableism toward Language by People with Disabilities: The Relationship between the Body and IdeologyChapter 12. Saana Santalahti: Sowing Seeds of Knowledge for Future Generations: Possibilities to Empower Ainu Language and People through TourismChapter 13. Yumiko Ohara: Questioning, Challenging and Reformulating Dominant Language Ideologies in Japan: The Cases of Ainu and UchinaaguchiSaana Santalahti, Florian Grosser, Patrick Heinrich: Conclusion: The Creation and Contestation of DifferenceIndex

Japan is undergoing profound changes, mainly driven by demographic dynamics: ageing, population decline, immigration. This is also reflected in changing communication practices and ideologies inspected in this volume. By expounding the complex interaction of gender relations, non-native speakerhood, social roles and cultural dynamics it helps us understand the growing diversity and increasing disparities that characterise Japan today.