The debate on English as an official language in Japan

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance 1
4. Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism? 19
5. Challenges for language policy in today’s Japan 33
6. Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today? 53
7. Japanese and German language education in the UK: problems, parallels, and prospects 71
8. Changing economic values of German and Japanese 95
9. The debate on English as an official language in Japan 115
10. Remains of the day: language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan 141
11. The case for choice … language preferences in Japanese academic publishing 155
12. Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names 173
13. Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe … focusing on Celtic languages 191
14. Backmatter 207