Divided Languages?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Diglossia and Functional Variation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Understanding the Essence of Diglossia

      • Jadranka Gvozdanović

      Pages 3-19

   3. Czech Diglossia: Dismantling or Dissolution?

      • Neil Bermel

      Pages 21-37

   4. Diglossia and Its Discontent: The Linguistics of National Crisis in Early Twentieth-Century China

      • Elisabeth Kaske

      Pages 39-54

   5. Diglossia in China: Past and Present

      • Jinzhi Su

      Pages 55-63

   6. Shifting Patterns of Chinese Diglossia: Why the Dialects May Be Headed for Extinction

      • Chris Wen-Chao Li

      Pages 65-86

3. Linguistic Awareness and Changing Perceptions of Varieties

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Discourse on Poetic Language in Early Modern Japan and the Awareness of Linguistic Change

      • Judit Árokay

      Pages 89-103

   3. Genbun itchi and Questione della lingua: Theoretical Intersections in the Creation of a New Written Language in Meiji Japan and Renaissance Italy

      • Massimiliano Tomasi

      Pages 105-118

   4. Linguistic Awareness and Language Use: The Chinese Literati at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

      • Darja Miyajima

      Pages 119-140

   5. Homogenization or Hierarchization?: A Problem of Written Language in the Public Sphere of Modern Japan

      • Yeounsuk Lee

      Pages 141-158

4. Diglossia and Translation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Modeling the Shifting Face of the Discourse Mediator

      • Olga T. Yokoyama

      Pages 161-180

   3. Translation Within the Polyglossic Linguistic System of Early Meiji-Period Japan

      • Jeffrey Angles

      Pages 181-205

   4. Genbun itchi and Literary Translations in Later Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Role of Literary Translations in Forming the “De-aru” Style

      • Michiaki Kawato

      Pages 207-222

   5. The Role of Russian in the Dissolution of Diglossia in Japan: Translations by Futabatei Shimei

      • Noriyo Hoozawa-Arkenau

      Pages 223-259

The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia” held in July 2011 at Heidelberg University. The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East Asian and in European languages, especially in Japanese, Chinese and in Slavic languages in the framework of the asymmetries in the emergence of modern written languages. Specialists from China, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and the U.S. contributed to the volume by introducing their research focusing on aspects of the dissolution of diglossic situations and the role of translation in the process. The first group of texts focuses on the linguistic concept of diglossia and the different processes of its dissolution, while the second investigates the perception of linguistic varieties in historical and transcultural perspectives. The third and final group analyses the changing cultural role and function of translations and their effect on newly developing literary languages.

• Dissolution of Diglossia
• Heidelberg Disglosia
• Language Awareness
• Modern Written Languages
• Modernization
• Translation

• Institut für Japanologie, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Judit Árokay

• Slavisches Institut, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Jadranka Gvozdanović, Darja Miyajima

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