{"title":"Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy","authors":"Rika Ito","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.06.013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how the Ainu language, a critically endangered indigenous language of northern Japan, is deployed in the Japanese animation <em>Golden Kamuy</em> (Noda, 2018-). The Ainu language is mediatized as loanwords and the language of the community primarily in Ainu–Japanese interactions. The Ainu co-protagonist’s skillful translation of loanwords makes Ainu culture accessible to the viewers. Such considerate representations reflect the creator's extensive research and commitment to overcoming discrimination against Ainu. Unfortunately, however, careful analysis of overall Ainu language allocational patterns reveals that the show cannot escape from reproducing race-related discourses in Japan, reflecting Japan's colonial legacy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530922000532","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article examines how the Ainu language, a critically endangered indigenous language of northern Japan, is deployed in the Japanese animation Golden Kamuy (Noda, 2018-). The Ainu language is mediatized as loanwords and the language of the community primarily in Ainu–Japanese interactions. The Ainu co-protagonist’s skillful translation of loanwords makes Ainu culture accessible to the viewers. Such considerate representations reflect the creator's extensive research and commitment to overcoming discrimination against Ainu. Unfortunately, however, careful analysis of overall Ainu language allocational patterns reveals that the show cannot escape from reproducing race-related discourses in Japan, reflecting Japan's colonial legacy.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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