EAN: 9783110191585

LANGUAGE REGIMES IN TRANSFORMATION GEBUNDEN

Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. This book
provides an in-depth account of how two second-tier languages  Japanese and German  are
affected by this process. In the international arena  they no longer compete with English  but
their status in their home countries and as foreign languages in third countries is in flux.
Original empirical and theoretical contributions are presented in this up-to-date study of
language regime change.The desirability of a single all-purpose language for all communication
needs is seldom questioned. It is simply taken for granted in many advanced countries  such as
Japan and the German-speaking countries. However  it is not clear whether German and Japanese
can sustain their full functional potential if their own speakers use these languages in
certain domains with decreasing frequency. The advantages of borderless communication in a
single language  on one hand  and maintaining highly cultivated all-purpose languages  on the
other  are obvious. The question of whether and how these two principles can be reconciled in
the age of globalization is not. In this book  leading scholars present their answers: Ulrich
Ammon  Tessa Carroll  Nanette Gottlieb  Patrick Heinrich  Takao Katsuragi  John Maher  Kiyoshi
Hara  Elmar Holenstein  Konrad Ehlich  Fumio Inoue  and Florian Coulmas.

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