商品簡介
Most studies of multilingualism in Tokyo have focused on the spoken language, but Backhaus (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo) looks at written language, specifically at the language of the signs. Office and shop signs, billboards and neon advertisements, traffic signs, typographic information and area maps, emergency guidance, political posters, stone inscriptions, and enigmatic graffiti make up the linguistic landscape of the city, he says, and analyzes various aspects of it. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peter Backhaus is research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. His research interests include sociolinguistics, semiotics, writing, and Japanese linguistics. He has published various papers about linguistic landscape research, including 'Signs of multilingualism in Tokyo: A diachronic look at the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175/176, 2005) and 'Multilingualism in Tokyo: A look into the linguistic landscape' (International Journal of Multilingualism 3.1, 2006). At present he is preparing a publication about Japan's linguistic landscape (with Florian Coulmas and Hiroshi Shoji).
