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Honna, Nobuyuki – JALT Journal, 1980
Addressing the common misconception that Japan is a mono-ethnic, mono-cultural, and monolingual society, this article focuses on several areas of sociolinguistic concern. It discusses: (1) the bimodalism of the Japanese deaf population between Japanese Sign Language as native language and Japanese Spoken Language as acquired second language; (2)…
Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Deafness, Diglossia
