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JAPN 983 - Language in Globalizing Japan

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4 credits
In this course we will investigate how so-called national language was constructed and disseminated throughout the modernization of Japan, its political and educational contributions and implications, and its transformations and limitations in todays Japanese society. We will explore the diversification of the Japanese language in globalizing Japan, its contradictions as well as coexistence with the deep-seated belief in the homogeneous Japanese. Located in Kyoto, an exciting big city with a rich pop-culture as well as a thousand-year old tradition as the capital before modernization, you will be blessed with abundant first-hand resources to investigate this tradition and transformation in peoples language life resources not only from the rich ancient artifacts or documents but also your host families and Doshisha students, the dialect, minority communities, immigrants, tourists, and young people around you.



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