Patrick Heinrich
List of John Benjamins publications in which Patrick Heinrich is involved.
Articles
2005 Things you have to leave behind: The demise of “elegant writing” and the rise of genbun itchi style in Meiji-period Japan Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 113–132 | Article
The paper examines the abandonment of an established style of writing called gabun ‘elegant writing’ and the emergence of a new style termed genbun itchi ‘unity of spoken and written language’ in nineteenth century Japan, focusing on a language ideological debate that occurred in 1889 in a journal… read more
2002 Gengo seikatsu: The study of language life in Japan, 1945–1995 Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 95–119 | Article
The indigenous concept of language life developed out of dialectology and attempts to establish a modern standard language. At first, language life existed above all merely as a label for the joint study of Japanese and its speakers and it only became an essential component of Japanese… read more