An Overview of Linguistic Issues in Japan: Exploring a Scheme for Diversified Linguistic Efforts Management

Intercultural Communication Studies XVII: 4, 2008. - pp.141-151. This paper proposes a scheme for diversified linguistic efforts management focusing on the mutual affects of different linguistic issues within a society. Before introducing the scheme, the currently important linguistic issues in Japan are briefly reviewed. Within the process, interrelationships between those different issues are described, which is connected to the author’s emphasis of placing the scheme in a wheel. The wheel metaphorically indicates that balanced and harmonious linguistic practices in adequate pace should be promoted in an era of accelerating transformation of sociolinguistic environment.