Journal of Research in Reading, 30(4)

Journal title/雑誌タイトル:
Journal of Research in Reading

Volume/巻号:
Volume 30, No. 4

Publisher/出版社:
Blackwell

Table of contents/目次:
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Reading and Writing, 20(6-9)

Journal title/雑誌タイトル:
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Volume/巻号:
Volume 20, Nos. 6-9

Table of contents/目次:
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New Book: Planning Chinese Characters

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?

Series Title/シリーズ・タイトル:
Language Policy, 9

Authors/著者:
Shouhui Zhao & Richard B. Jr. Baldauf

Publisher/出版社:
Springer

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

The whole world has been watching the vast changes that are currently occurring in China, but few people are aware that at the same time, to ensure the writing system serves these changes well, Chinese characters have also undergone significant reform. While focusing on current problems, developments and possible solutions, this book also details the major implementation of language planning programs for the modernization of the Chinese writing system that have occurred over the last century.

The volume provides a broad and in-depth analysis of the conflict between one of the world’s oldest surviving script systems and the latest developments in communication technology. Comprehensive in coverage, interdisciplinary in structure, with copious references to assist readers in locating a wide range of resources, this book offers an analytic discussion of character planning that will prove of great value to language policymakers and those who are interested in China/East Asian studies and sinology. [Quoted from the publishers website]

Details/詳細:
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New Book: Remembering the Kanji 3 (Second Edition)

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Remembering the Kanji 3: Writing and Reading Japanese Characters for Upper-Level Proficiency (Second Edition)

Authors/著者:
James W. Heisig & Tanya Sienko

Publisher/出版社:
University of Hawai`i Press

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

Students who have learned to read and write the basic 2,000 characters run into the same difficulty that university students in Japan face: The government-approved list of basic educational kanji is not sufficient for advanced reading and writing. Although each academic specialization requires supplementary kanji of its own, a large number of these kanji overlap. With that in mind, the same methods employed in volumes 1 and 2 of Remembering the Kanji have been applied to 1,000 additional characters determined as useful for upper-level proficiency, and the results published as the third volume in the series. [Quoted from the publisher's website]

Details/詳細:
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New Book: Remembering the Kanji 2 (Third Edition)

Book Title/書籍タイトル:
Remembering the Kanji 2: A systematic Guide to Reading the Japanese Characters (Third Edition)

Author/著者:
James W. Heisig

Publisher/出版社:
University of Hawai`i Press

TOC/目次:
Available from the publisher's website.

Abstract/要旨:

Following the first volume of Remembering the Kanji, the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. [Quoted from the publisher's website]

Details/詳細:
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UPDATE: Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai/日本語句読法研究会

The first meeting of the study group 日本語句読法研究会 (Nihongo Kutoho Kenkyukai) was held on January 12. For reviews, click on the links below.

日本語句読法研究会の第一回研究会が1月12日に開催されました。以下のリンクから出席者による報告をご覧になれます。

• 先週の12日、日本語句読法研究会、始動しました。(ひつじ書房)
• 日本語句読法研究会に出席してきました (タマゴの散歩道－文字世界を巡る旅－)
  

Writing Systems Syllabi (via LINGUIST List)

Peter T. Daniels, co-editor of The World's Writing Systems (1996), has posted the following message on LINGUIST List (19.261):

World's Writing Systems (1996) の編著者の一人であるPeter T. Daniels氏が、LINGUIST List (19.261) に以下のメッセージを投稿されています：

Subject: Writing Systems Syllabi

I have been a scholar of writing systems for 20+ years, but I am not a teacher. The opportunity has arisen to perhaps submit a proposal for a textbook on writing systems, so I would appreciate the opportunity of examining syllabi for one-semester (or one-quarter) courses on writing systems that have been taught by linguists, and I am not aware of any repository of such syllabi.

Thus: I would appreciate receiving any syllabus -- the more detailed the better -- that has been used for a course in writing systems.

Thank you.

Call for Papers: The 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan/日本言語学会

The 136th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan will be held at Gakushuin University (Tokyo, Japan) from June 21 to 22, 2008. Deadline for papers is March 20, 2008.
For details, click here.

日本言語学界の2008年春季大会（第136回大会）が2008年6月21と22日の両日に学習院大学（東京都）にて開催されます。発表申し込みの締め切りは2008年3月20日となっています。
詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

New Feature: CALENDAR

Today I added the CALENDAR feature to the side bar so that I can list upcoming events and call deadlines. By clicking the links you can jump to the relevant pages.

本日サイドバーにCALENDARを追加しました。ここには学会などの各種イベントの開催日や締め切りなどの予定を掲載していきます。リンクをクリックすると関連ページにジャンプします。