Nanette Gottlieb FAHA is Professor of Japanese Studies and ARC Professorial Fellow in the Japan Program, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Her recent work includes Language and Society in Japan (2005) and Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan (2006). She is currently working on a five-year study of the challenges to language policy in Japan brought about by both increased immigration and new technologies, with a book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

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• 1. Introduction: Language in Public Spaces in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 2. Public Signs as Narrative in Japan Patricia Wetzel 3. Language Choices at Naha Airport Patrick Heinrich 4. Multilingualism in Japanese Public Space – Reading the Signs Peter Backhaus 5. Local Government Websites in Japan: International, Multicultural, Multilingual? Tessa Carroll 6. Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles Nanette Gottlieb 7. Finding Mr. Right: New Looks at Gendered Modernity in Japanese Televised Romances Debra J. Occhi, Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith 8. Who is to say ‘Your Japanese is incorrect’? Reflection on ‘Correct’ Japanese Usages by Learners of Japanese Chihiro Kinoshita-Thomson 9. Partial Non-Use of Interpreters in Japanese Criminal Court Proceedings Ikuko Nakane

Nanette Gottlieb FAHA is Professor of Japanese Studies and ARC Professorial Fellow in the Japan Program, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Her recent work includes Language and Society in Japan (2005) and Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan (2006). She is currently working on a five-year study of the challenges to language policy in Japan brought about by both increased immigration and new technologies, with a book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

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• 1. Introduction: Language in Public Spaces in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 2. Public Signs as Narrative in Japan Patricia Wetzel 3. Language Choices at Naha Airport Patrick Heinrich 4. Multilingualism in Japanese Public Space – Reading the Signs Peter Backhaus 5. Local Government Websites in Japan: International, Multicultural, Multilingual? Tessa Carroll 6. Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles Nanette Gottlieb 7. Finding Mr. Right: New Looks at Gendered Modernity in Japanese Televised Romances Debra J. Occhi, Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith 8. Who is to say ‘Your Japanese is incorrect’? Reflection on ‘Correct’ Japanese Usages by Learners of Japanese Chihiro Kinoshita-Thomson 9. Partial Non-Use of Interpreters in Japanese Criminal Court Proceedings Ikuko Nakane

Nanette Gottlieb FAHA is Professor of Japanese Studies and ARC Professorial Fellow in the Japan Program, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Her recent work includes Language and Society in Japan (2005) and Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan (2006). She is currently working on a five-year study of the challenges to language policy in Japan brought about by both increased immigration and new technologies, with a book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

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• 1. Introduction: Language in Public Spaces in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 2. Public Signs as Narrative in Japan Patricia Wetzel 3. Language Choices at Naha Airport Patrick Heinrich 4. Multilingualism in Japanese Public Space – Reading the Signs Peter Backhaus 5. Local Government Websites in Japan: International, Multicultural, Multilingual? Tessa Carroll 6. Playing with Language in E-Japan: Old Wine in New Bottles Nanette Gottlieb 7. Finding Mr. Right: New Looks at Gendered Modernity in Japanese Televised Romances Debra J. Occhi, Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith 8. Who is to say ‘Your Japanese is incorrect’? Reflection on ‘Correct’ Japanese Usages by Learners of Japanese Chihiro Kinoshita-Thomson 9. Partial Non-Use of Interpreters in Japanese Criminal Court Proceedings Ikuko Nakane