05f-07
LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN JAPAN

Satoshi TOKI, et al.(School of Letters)

Objective
The purpose of this course is to outline the linguistic and cultural diversity of Japan and invalidate the long-established myth that Japan is a homogeneous community. The course will be divided into two parts. The first part will focus on various subcultures in Japan, including such topics as Japanese geography, gender, minorities, religions and university students. The second part will try to elucidate the characteristics of the Japanese language among the languages over the world, paying attention to the internal variation at the same time.

Textbook and Reference Books
No particular books will be used.

Lecture outline
1. KOBAYASHI Shigeru Introduction
The place of the Ryukyus in the cultural geography of Japan
2. TOMIYAMA Ichiro Okinawa as the colonial
3. SUGIHARA Toru Koreans in modern Osaka
4. TSUTSUMI Kenji Regional changes in Japan: cases in depopulated regions
5. OGINO Miho Gender and reproductive culture in Japan
6. NAKAMURA Ikuo Animal rituals of Japanese folk religion
7. KAWAMURA Kunimitsu Japanese new religions
8. KUDO Mayumi Japanese: a typological overview
9. TOKI Satoshi Japanese speech sounds
10. AOKI Naoko Language Learning as Ethnography 1
11. AOKI Naoko Language Learning as Ethnography 2
12. AOKI Naoko Language Learning as Ethnography 3
13. SHIBUYA Katsumi Language planning in Japan

Grading
Quizzes 56%
Term paper to be submitted at the end of the course 44%
(The term paper can be connected to only one of the 13 themes of the course.)