The Japanese writing system was the target of criticism and reform during the latter half of the 19th century. In order to implement a coherent education, some like Mori Arinori suggested adopting English; others like Nanbu Yoshikazu proposed the adoption of the Latin alphabet and the abolition of Chinese characters. This paper shows that, contrary to the image that everything has changed in Japan within a few years around the Meiji Restoration (1868), from the initial debates of the late-Edo, it has taken over forty years to see the Japanese language unshackled from Chinese, yet without being destroyed and transformed into English, and for the building blocks of a “national language” (kokugo) to emerge.Le système graphique japonais fut la ...
Interwar Japan saw the rise of a generation of intellectuals, bureaucrats, and educators who were un...
Kangaku, or Chinese learning, was the cornerstone of literature, education, and intellectual thinkin...
This thesis focuses on the colonialist discourse in Japanese linguistics in the period from 1868 to ...
The Japanese writing system was the target of criticism and reform during the latter half of the 19t...
abstract: Kokuji are a specific type of character, or Sinograph, present in Japanese script. Kokuji ...
This paper is an extension to previous researches that have addressed the problem of "Language Refor...
2012-08-06The emergence of a standardized national language kokugo in Japan is a relatively recent d...
Basil's thesis investigates the factors and forces that changed written Japanese between the years 1...
For the Japanese, the loss of the war was a severe blow to their self-confi-dence as a people. Natur...
The Japanese formulated different ideas about their language through various attempts to adapt Chine...
The Japanese formulated different ideas about their language through various attempts to adapt Chine...
This paper demonstrates that the notion of “national language (standard Japanese),< established in t...
This study aims to deduce what Japanese native speakers think of the Japanese writing systems, and i...
From the 1860s onwards, the supporters of Western studies called into question traditional education...
From the 1860s onwards, the supporters of Western studies called into question traditional education...
Interwar Japan saw the rise of a generation of intellectuals, bureaucrats, and educators who were un...
Kangaku, or Chinese learning, was the cornerstone of literature, education, and intellectual thinkin...
This thesis focuses on the colonialist discourse in Japanese linguistics in the period from 1868 to ...
The Japanese writing system was the target of criticism and reform during the latter half of the 19t...
abstract: Kokuji are a specific type of character, or Sinograph, present in Japanese script. Kokuji ...
This paper is an extension to previous researches that have addressed the problem of "Language Refor...
2012-08-06The emergence of a standardized national language kokugo in Japan is a relatively recent d...
Basil's thesis investigates the factors and forces that changed written Japanese between the years 1...
For the Japanese, the loss of the war was a severe blow to their self-confi-dence as a people. Natur...
The Japanese formulated different ideas about their language through various attempts to adapt Chine...
The Japanese formulated different ideas about their language through various attempts to adapt Chine...
This paper demonstrates that the notion of “national language (standard Japanese),< established in t...
This study aims to deduce what Japanese native speakers think of the Japanese writing systems, and i...
From the 1860s onwards, the supporters of Western studies called into question traditional education...
From the 1860s onwards, the supporters of Western studies called into question traditional education...
Interwar Japan saw the rise of a generation of intellectuals, bureaucrats, and educators who were un...
Kangaku, or Chinese learning, was the cornerstone of literature, education, and intellectual thinkin...
This thesis focuses on the colonialist discourse in Japanese linguistics in the period from 1868 to ...