Language Policy

February 2014, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 75–77 | Cite as

Patrick Heinrich: The Making of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity

Multilingual Matters, Bristol, Buffalo and Toronto, 2012, viii + 204 pp, Pb £34.95, ISBN 978 1 84769 656 4

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• Noriko WatanabeEmail author

Book Review

First Online: 10 March 2013

Received: 26 February 2013

Accepted: 27 February 2013

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References

1. Gottlieb, N. (2012). Language policy in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
2. Lee, Y. (2010). The ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing language in modern Japan [trans: Hubbard, M.H]. [Originally published in Japanese (1996). Kokugo toyuu shisoo. Tokyo: Iwanami]. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press.Google Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

• Noriko Watanabe
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1. 1.Kwansei Gakuin UniversitySanda, HyogoJapan