Language and Disability in Japan

Gottlieb, Nanette

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“…Discriminatory language has just as much power to exclude as other forms of marginalization (Gottlieb 2001;Singal 2010). It therefore represents an effective lens through which to analyze the social position and considerations of people with a disabilityin this case albinismwithin the community under study.…”

Section: Stigma and Acceptance: Past And Present Explanations And Idementioning

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Labeling albinism: language and discourse surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania

Brocco

2015

Disability & Society

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This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowledge of albinism and reduce discrimination, most of the community members within the study had little knowledge of the (bio)medical explanations for albinism and tended to marginalize people with albinism. Framed within a wider moral discourse on illness, disability and socially appropriate behavior, albinism is mostly considered to be God's will or the consequence of past misdeeds within the family, and many of the existing labels for people with albinism express such ideas.

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Section: Stigma and Acceptance: Past And Present Explanations And Idementioning

confidence: 99%

Labeling albinism: language and discourse surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania

Brocco

2015

Disability & Society

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“…17 To cater to these diverse populations and to the increasing number of incoming tourists, multilingual information in East Asian languages, English, Portuguese, etc., is now relatively widely available in Japan. These materials and their production have been examined (Shōji, Backhaus and Coulmas 2009;Gottlieb 2011). These developments have prompted Carroll to point to the need to strike a balance between ensuring that foreign residents obtain essential information in appropriate languages on one hand, and, on the other, the provision of opportunities for newcomers to learn Japanese language and culture on a long-term basis in order to live together with Japanese people.…”

Section: "New Speakers" Of Japanesementioning

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The study of Japanese language speakers

Länsisalmi¹

2019

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

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Discussing "speakers of Japanese" is a challenging task. Already a quick look at the tables of contents of handbooks and introductions to sociolinguistics shows that "speaker" and "language user" usually do not appear as chapter titles. The term "language" dominates instead. Widely used introductions to Japanese language scantly state that "Japanese is the native language of virtually all Japanese nationals" (Hasegawa 2015: 3), or that "Japanese is currently spoken by approximately 127 million people in Japan" (Iwasaki 2013: 1). Iwasaki (2013: 1) further refers to kokugo (national language), "especially as the name of a school subject", versus nihongo (Japanese language), a term used when Japanese "is contrasted with other languages". Others elaborate that nihongo is commonly understood to be "what the Japanese people speak" so that it can be considered equivalent to kokugo. In the modern period, Japanese is associated with the standard or common language, "spoken (or speakable) by everyone everywhere in Japan" (Shibamoto and Smith 2016:In order to sketch an overview of "Japanese and its speakers", one first needs to dismantle the concept of "speaker", and then elaborate on the notion that Japanese is "speakable by everyone everywhere" in Japan. This leads straight to discussions of "non-native" users of Japanese, i.e., second language Japanese learners in Japan (henceforth, J2) and outside Japan (henceforth, JFL). 2The number of Japanese language learners in Japan was approximately 190,000 in 2015 (Bunkachō 2016: 57-58), while some 3,6 million learners studied the language outside Japan (Japan Foundation 2016a). 3 Speakers of Japanese: A terminological accountA common-sensical understanding of "native speakers" (henceforth, NS) refers to people speaking their "mother tongue" or "first acquired language". The concept of "native" is thereby contrasted with "non-native". This definition relates to lifetime. Learning a language in early childhood is what makes a speaker "native". Other definitions relate to competence. A NS has a "perfect" command of the language, making NS linguistic authorities in their native tongue. 4 Limiting our discussions to such idealized "Japanese NS" would be misleading. To start, Japanese-first language speakers (henceforth, J1) speak Japanese in various ways. Then there are J1 speakers outside Japan, and those who have learned Japanese side-by-side with another language, in various circumstances.Japanese is also learned as a second language (J2) and a foreign language (JFL). Japanese was also 2 enforced as a "national language" (kokugo) in colonial Taiwan and Korea, where many of the older

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“…One of the processes of Othering of people with disabilities that relates directly to immigration takes places through the construction of discourses of dependency that continue to justify exclusionary practices experienced by people with disabilities (Fine and Glendinning, 2005;Gottlieb, 2001). Hughes (2007) notes that impairment and disability are associated with 'deficit' (p. 673), which has led to Othering and specifically to the construction of discourses of dependency (Hughes, 2007).…”

Section: Constructing the Other And The Process Of Otheringmentioning

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Theoretical dimensions for interrogating the intersection of disability, immigration and social work

El‐Lahib

2016

International Social Work

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This article proposes theoretical dimensions to examine the intersection of disability and immigration. These dimensions bring together knowledge from critical disability studies and postcolonial theories to inform a social justice orientation to social work practice on issues of immigration and disability. The article describes three interrelated themes that bring these theoretical dimensions together: (a) knowledge production and dominance in terms of North/ South power dynamics and relations, (b) the construction and processes of Othering and how these shape the experiences of people with disabilities in immigration and (c) resistance to these constructions of Othering.

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Language and Disability in Japan

Cited by 24 publications

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Labeling albinism: language and discourse surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania

Labeling albinism: language and discourse surrounding people with albinism in Tanzania

The study of Japanese language speakers

Theoretical dimensions for interrogating the intersection of disability, immigration and social work

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