Professor Nanette Gottlieb
Professor Nanette Gottlieb

B.A. (Hons Japanese), University of Queensland 1970, Ph.D., University of Queensland, 1975

Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (#32), 318
Email:  nanette.gottlieb@uq.edu.au 

Research interests
  • Sociology of language in Japan
  • Japan's language policies
  • the Internet and communication in Japan
  • language and discrimination in Japan
  • the impact of technology on written Japanese.
Current research projects
  • Immigration, technology and language policy in Japan  (Australian Professorial Fellowship 2007-2011)
Selected recent publications
  • Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • Language and Citizenship in Japan (ed.) (Routledge, 2012)
  • Language and Public Spaces in Japan (ed.) (Routledge, 2011)
  • “Globalization and Japanese: Online and Off”, in International Research Center for Japanese Studies (eds), Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region, Vol 1., Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, pp. 185-199 (2010)
  • “Playing with language in E-Japan: old wine in new bottles”, Japanese Studies 30 (3): 393-407 (2010)
  • “Technology and the writing system in Japan”, in P. Heinrich and C.Galan (eds), Language Life in Japan: Transformations and Prospects, London: Routledge, pp. 140-153 (2010)
  • "The Romaji Movement in Japan", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20 (1): 75-88 (2010)
  • "Sociolinguistics in Japan", in M. Ball (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World, London: Routledge, pp. 89-97 (2009)
  • "Language on the Internet in Japan", in McLelland, M. and Goggin, G. (eds), Internationalizing Internet Studies, New York: Routledge, pp. 65-78 (2009)
  • "Japan: Language Policy and Planning in Transition", Current Issues in Language Planning 9 (1): 1-68 (2008)
  • "Japan", in Simpson, A. (ed.), Language and National Identity in Asia, Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 186-199 (2007)
  • "Challenges for languages policy in today's Japan", in F. Coulmas (ed.) Language Regimes in Transformation, Berlin, New York, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 33-52 (2007)
  • Linguistic Stereotyping and Minorities in Japan (Routledge, 2006)
  • Language and Society in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Japanese Planning and Language Policy: East Asian Perspectives (Joint with Professor Ping Chen) (Curzon Press, 2001)
  • "Language and disability in Japan", Disability & Society 16 (7) pp. 981-995 (2001)
  • Word-processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard (Curzon, 2000)
Other activities and service
  • Head of School LCCS 2001-2005
  • Academic Board 2001-2005
  • Academic Board Standing Committee 2005
  • Editorial boards - Asian Studies Review, Contemporary Japan, Japanese Studies  

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