John C. Maher

List of John Benjamins publications in which John C. Maher is involved.

Title

Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics

John C. Maher

Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 49] 2021. xiii, 239 pp.

Article

Maher, John C. 2000 Marriage, naming and the state Language Management and Language Problems: Part I, Jernudd, Björn H. (ed.), pp. 313–329 | Article

A name is not merely a personal identifier but an object over which state and corporate bodies regard themselves as having the right of control. In the modern state, ideologies of citizenship, ethnocentrism, colonialism, have long entailed the manipulation of personal names. The married… read more