Effects of Babel in the Church: A Study of Language Planning, Policy and Practice in Japanese Ethnic Churches
| atmire.migration.oldid | 3291 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Roy, Sylvie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barrett, Tyler | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-03T21:52:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-11-20T08:00:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06-03 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2015 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In the globalizing world, it is difficult to understand the cultural, linguistic, religious and policy landscape of Japanese ethnic church communities. Japanese ethnic church communities in Western Canada consist of, and are impacted by, levels of language planning, policy, and practice as they are communities that operate within and without macro-levels of language policies (i.e., Official Language Act and the Canadian Multicultural Act), meso-levels of church policies (e.g., church websites and Facebook pages), and micro-levels that are often determined by perspectives of church members who are typically Japanese people from Japan. Japanese ethnic churches are also spaces that function to legitimize the language and cultural practices of Japanese people who come to Canada for various purposes and periods of time. Since little research has been done to understand the language and cultural practices of Japanese ethnic churches in Western Canada, it is important to ask the following question: What is a Japanese ethnic church community in terms of language and cultural practices? To answer this question, I use language planning and policy (Johnson, 2009) as a theoretical framework and conduct a multi-site case study (Thomas, 2011) that consists of data collected through interviews and observational experiences which are analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 2003; Gumperz, 1982; Onodera, 2004) to understand relationships of power and intertextuality in discourses and in social practices relevant to Japanese ethnic church communities in Western Canada. The analysis reveals that while Japanese ethnic churches are spaces of legitimization that are fueled by strong beliefs about one nation, one culture, and one language ideologies, and subsequently aimed at, and dependent upon facilitating the perceived Japanese language and cultural preferences/needs of first generation Japanese people who come to Canada as adults, church members also perceive themselves as becoming “mixed” to varying degrees as they are impacted by the dominant English language policies, practices, and culture in Western Canada. As a result, legitimization is often context dependent and experienced differently by church members within and without Japanese ethnic churches. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Barrett, T. (2015). Effects of Babel in the Church: A Study of Language Planning, Policy and Practice in Japanese Ethnic Churches (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25820 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25820 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2286 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Education--Bilingual and Multicultural | |
| dc.subject.classification | Language Policy | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Ethnic Churches | en_US |
| dc.title | Effects of Babel in the Church: A Study of Language Planning, Policy and Practice in Japanese Ethnic Churches | |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Educational Research | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
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