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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: JAPANESE LINGUISTICS Volume 1 LANGUAGE AND THE MODERN STATE LANGUAGE AND THE MODERN STATE The Reform of Written Japanese NANETTE GOTTLIEB Firstpublishedin1991byRoutledge. Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2019 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1991NanetteTwine(Gottlieb) Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-36949-8(Set) ISBN:978-0-429-40043-8(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-39434-6(Volume1)(hbk) ISBN:978-0-429-40108-4(Volume1)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. Language and the Modern State The reform of written Japanese Nanette Twine London and New York First published 1991 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc 29 West 35th street, New York, NY 10001 © 1991 Nanette Twine Typeset in 10 /12pt Times Auto logic, by Times Graphics, Singapore Printed in England by T.J. Press, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved .. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Twine, Nanette Language and the modern state: the reform of written Japanese (The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series). 1. Japanese language. Sociological aspects I. Title 495.6 ISBN 0-415-00990-1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Twine, Nanette Language and the modern state: the reform of written Japanese/ Nanette Twine p. cm.-(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series). Includes bibliographical references ISBN 0-415-00990-1 1. Japanese language-20th century. 2. Japanese language-Reform. 3. Language policy-Japan. I. Title II. Series. PL525.6.T95 1991 306.4'4952'0904-dc20 To Hans, Susan, and Gregory Contents List of figures lX Acknowledgements Xl Introduction 1 1 Language and modernization: The Japanese experience 6 2 Pre-modern styles 33 3 Early stirrings: Education and the press 74 4 Language and politics 108 5 The role of literature 132 6 The final stages 163 7 The opposition 184 8 The standardization debate 207 9 The problem of orthography 224 Conclusion 257 Appendix 261 Glossary 286 Notes 290 Bibliography 303 Index 327
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