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Peter Backhaus

Linguistics


  backhaus@dijtokyo.org

Peter Backhaus received his PhD from Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. He has worked at the German Institute for Japanese Studies since September 2005. Within the institute’s research focus on “Challenges to demographic change” he has been running a project on communication in institutional elderly care. His research interests include sociolinguistics and language change, conversation analysis, and writing and orthography.


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Challenges of Demographic Change

Communication between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly



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