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Name: Peter Backhaus
Institution: German Institute for Japanese Studies
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Homepage: http://www.dijtokyo.org/?page=person_detail.php&p_id=168&lang=en
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Japanese
Selected Publications: 2007. Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

2007. Alphabet ante portas: How English text invades Japanese public space. In: Visible Language 41 (1), 70-87.

2006. Multilingualism in Tokyo: A look into the linguistic landscape. In: International Journal of Multilingualism 3 (1), 52-66.

2005. Signs of multilingualism in Tokyo: A diachronic look at the linguistic landscape. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language 175/176, 103-121.

Announced on LINGUIST -  Linguistic Landscapes
Reviewed on LINGUIST -  Linguistic Landscapes
Dissertation Abstract: Signs of Multilingualism in Tokyo: A linguistic landscape approach
Reviewer of: An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (LL Issue 18.1030)

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