| The Western Rediscovery of the Japanese Language Contributor(s): Kaiser, Stefan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0700703160 ISBN-13: 9780700703166 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $2079.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: Incorporates many of the key works by Western scholars and others on different aspects of the Japanese language which represent the second or 'rediscovery' phase after Japan opened its doors to the West in the mid-19th century. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Japanese - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 495.6 |
| Physical Information: 4600 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This important collection incorporates many of the key works (in total fourteen) by Western scholars and others on different aspects of the Japanese language which represent the second, or 'rediscovery' phase - the first being dominated by Jesuit linguistic scholarship at the turn of the sixteenth/seventeenth centuries resulting from their attempts to convert Japan to Christianity. These language resources and skills, however, were virtually wiped out during the following two centuries when Western culture and religion were outlawed (1630s-1850s). |