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Nihongo ga horobiru toki: Eigo no seiki no naka de Copyright © 2008 by Minae Mizumura First published in Japan in 2008 by Chikumashobo Ltd., Tokyo English-language translation rights arranged with Chikumashobo Ltd., Tokyo, through Japan–Foreign Rights Centre English-language translation copyright © 2015 Columbia University Press
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Mizumura, Minae
[Nihongo ga horobiru toki. English]
The fall of language in the age of English / Minae Mizumura ; Translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter.
p. cm.
First published in Japan in 2008 by Chikumashobo Ltd., Tokyo. entitled “Nihongo ga horobiru toki: Eigo no seiki no naka de.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16302-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-231-53854-1 (e-book)
1. Japanese language—Social aspects. 2. English language—Influence on Japan. I. Yoshihara, Mari, 1968–translator. II. Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator. III. Title.
PL523.5.M5813 2015
495.609'051—dc23
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