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What could parents do to support children’s learning of community language? Learn about the findings from the Australia-wide study on the Japanese community.
The family can be conceptualised as both a private and public ‘space’ (Canagarajah, 2013; Lanza and Lomeu Gomes, 2020) that operates within a society. Family Language Policy (FLP) (King, Fogle and Logan-Terry, 2008) on language maintenance and development, therefore, would reflect social as well as affective factors (Schalley and Eisenchlas, 2020) that influence each other.
While Spolsky’s (2004) tripartite model of language policy, composed of language ideology, language practices, and language management, has been used in many FLP studies, the focus of FLP research has evolved from explicit and overt language planning and management to include implicit and covert ones through practices such as literacy and identity construction in recent years. However, there are still gaps in research.
This seminar draws on some of the findings from the Australian Network for Japanese as Community Language (ANJCL)’s nation-wide interview study on learners of ‘Japanese as Community Language’ (JCL) to interpret the dynamic functions of FLP and its impact on language maintenance and development. Analyses of interviews with 18 families that have raised JCL speakers to adulthood uncovered complex relationships among FLP factors, language environment and resources, and JCL maintenance into adulthood.
This seminar is delivered in partnership with Global Japan Office, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).
Catering
We will serve lunch for this event with vegan/vegetarian/meat options.
The Ise Shrines are among Japan’s most ancient and holiest sites of kami worship. The architecture of the shrines was admired by modernists for its geometry of form and simple, unadorned use of natural materials. The site is also famous for being continuously rebuilt every twenty years since the late seventh century; its 62nd rebuilding took place in October of 2013, and the 63rd renewal is scheduled for the fall of 2033. Ise’s renewals raises complex issues concerning the nature of architectural process and meaning, eco-architecture, sustainability, and the perpetuation of indigenous building practices into the present.
This lecture examines the origins and design of Ise as a way of engaging these questions. Based upon the form of the Neolithic rice granary, Ise was formalized as a shrine complex in the seventh century amidst significant changes in the political environment of the Japanese archipelago and East Asian region. Most notably, its design was conceived amidst the adoption of more advanced timber-frame building styles being practiced in Korea and China, opening onto complex questions regarding the purpose and social and environmental significance of Ise’s renewal process.
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This lecture is supported by the Russell and Mab Grimwade Miegunyah Fund Committee and the Russell Grimwade Bequest as part of the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program.