Lecture Title: The Cost Performance of Language Learning - World English, Chinese and Japanese
Lecturer: Professor Shio Inoue
Time: September 25, 2019 (Wednesday) 13:30
Location: Room 128, Foreign Language Building
Lecture Introduction:
The status of language has undergone a historical change, i.e., from a free commodity to an economic commodity. Language and real estate have one thing in common, namely that both are inherited from their parent's generation. Inequality in language has become prominent.
From 1995 to 1999, NINJAL conducted the International Japanese Language Attitude Survey in approximately 30 countries, which revealed economic differences between languages. Among the factors that influence the distribution of Japanese, geographical proximity is the most important. Learners' Japanese language proficiency is also influenced by geographic factors.
Lecturer Profile:
Fumio Inoue, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Akai University Shio Inoue, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Akai University, was born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1942 and completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Graduate School of Tokyo University in 1971. In 1987, he was awarded the 13th Dr. Kazuhiro Kaneda Memorial Prize for his research on New Dialects and is a member of the NHK Broadcasting Terminology Committee. His research fields are sociolinguistics and dialectology. His research topics include honorific language, modern new dialects, dialect images, and the economic value of language. His monographs include A New Landscape of the Language (Akiyama Shoten, 1989), A New Horizon of Dialectology (Meiji Shuyuan, 1994), Japanese Language (Iwanami Shinsho, 1998), Japanese as a Keyword (Kodansha Shinsho, 1999), Japanese Values (Oshokan Shinsho, 2000), and The Change of Eastern and Northern Languages (Akiyama Shinsho, 1999). The change of the northeastern dialect (Akiyama Shoten, 2000), The dialect of measurement (Meiji Shuyuan, 2001), The Japanese language is born with a residue (PHP Shinshu, 2001), Dictionary of New Japanese (Toyo Shurin, Yarimizu Karnataka, and co-writers, 2002), The study of social dialectology (Meiji Shuyuan, 2008), The study of economic linguistics (Meiji Shuyuan, 2011), The study of economic linguistics (Meiji Shuyuan, 2011). (Meiji Shugakuin, 2011), and New? (Meiji Shuyuan, 2011), The New Japanese Language Theory (a new book published by NHK), and The Japanese Language is Changing. Some of the monographs have been translated into Korean and Chinese, such as The Price of Japanese (Yanabe University Press), and Studies in Japanese honorific (China Social Science Press). Most of the English papers can be found at the following link: http://dictionary.sanseido-publ.co.jp/affil/person/inoue_fumio/
