Description: A showcase of the recent developments in Japanese Applied Linguistics.
Brief description: Junko Mori is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA where she teaches Japanese language and linguistics.
Review Quotes: "This state-of-the art volume covers a wide range of topics on contemporary Japanese from the perspectives of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and language education. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters in Japanese Applied Linguistics offer original and often surprising insights into Japanese language practices at the beginning of the 21st century. Through nuanced and accountable analyses, the authors unravel persisting myths about Japanese language, culture, and the learning of Japanese as an additional language, inviting readers to join their journey through the changing landscape of diverse, multilingual, multicultural Japan. With this book, editors Junko Mori and Amy Ohta have given us an outstanding example of applied linguistics as the study of language in the real world." - Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawaii at Manoa