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Professor Nanette Gottlieb’s research interests include Japan’s language policies; the Internet and communication in Japan; the sociology of language in Japan; and the impact of technology on written Japanese. She currently holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (2007-2011) for a project on “Immigration, technology and literacy: key challenges for language policy in a changing Japan” which interrogates the relevance of current language policy in the light of important recent areas of social transformation and associated key cultural beliefs about language in Japan. Other current research projects involve technology-mediated language play in written Japanese and several projects dealing with different aspects of language and society in contemporary Japan.
Professor Gottlieb is the author of Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan (2006), Language and Society in Japan (2005), Word-processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard (2000), Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script (1995) and Language and the Modern State: The Modernization of Written Japanese (1991). She is co-editor of Japanese Cybercultures (2003, with Mark McLelland) and Language Planning and Language Policy: East Asian Perspectives (2001, with Ping Chen).
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