Multilingual Tokyo

Ingrid Piller

Multilingual Tokyo

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I had been led to believe that Japan was a very monolingual place interspersed with Engrish ads, commercial signage and T-shirts. Well, that has turned out to be just another stereotype! Tokyo is an amazingly multilingual place! Official signage in Tokyo is much more multilingual than official signage in Sydney.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2010

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© 2018 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Multilingual Tokyo

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