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Tsingtao / Prisoners-of-war camp Bandō

Chintao-Doitsuhei Furyo Kenkyūkai

German House in Naruto

The defenders of Tsingtau and their time as POWs in Japan (1914 to 1920) by Hans-Joachim Schmidt

Former Senior Research Fellows
DIJ Projects \| Publications \| Presentations
Peter Backhaus ( September 1st 2005 - March 31st 2010 ) 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.
DIJ Projects Challenges of Demographic Change Communication between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly

Books

(2007)
Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo. Clevedon(UK): Multilingual Matters. 158 p.

Editorship

(2009)
[With: Coulmas, Florian; Shōji, Hiroshi] Nihon no gengo keikan (Japan’s linguistic landscape). Tokyo: Sangensha. 206 p.

(2009)
[With: Coulmas, Florian] International Journal of the Sociology of Language 200. Social Aging and Language. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 211 p.

(2007)
Japanstudien 19. Familienangelegenheiten (Family affairs). München: iudicium Verlag. 284 p.

Articles

(2010)
Time to get up: Compliance-gaining in a Japanese eldercare facility . In: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20 (1). pp. 69-89.

(2009)
[With: Coulmas, Florian] Introduction: aging and language . In: Backhaus, Peter; Coulmas, Florian (Ed.) International Journal of the Sociology of Language 200. Social Aging and Language. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp.5-10.

(2009)
Politeness in institutional elderly care in Japan: A cross-cultural comparison

. In: Journal of Politeness Research 5. pp. 54-71.

(2008)
On resident-staff interaction in a Japanese elderly care facility

. In: Health Communication: Journal of the Korean Academy on Communication in Healthcare 3 (2). pp.102-108.

(2008)
Rules and regulations in linguistic landscaping: A comparative perspective . In: Shohamy, E.; Gorter, D. (Ed.) Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery. London & New York: Routledge. pp. 157-172.

(2008)
The linguistic landscape of Tokyo . In: Barni, Monica; Extra, Guus (Ed.) Mapping Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Contexts. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. pp. 311-333.

(2007)
[With: Shikama, Ayako; Yamakawa, Tomoko] Doitsugo wa dare no mono? Tayō na doitsugo shiyōsha o taishō to shita gengo seisaku (Who owns the German language? Language policies for heterogeneous language users) . In: Yamamoto, T.; Kawahara, T. (Ed.) Sekai no gengo seisaku (The world’s language policies). Tokyo: Kurosio. pp. 179-200.

(2007)
Alphabet ante portas. How English text invades Japanese public space . In: Visible Language 41 (1). pp. 70-87.

(2007)
Kōkyō moji to Nihon no tagengoka (Written language in public space and Japan’s new multilingualism) . In: Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (Ed.) Shin kotoba shirīzu 20. 20. Tokyo: Gyōsei. pp. 92-97.

(2006)
Multilingualism in Tokyo. A look into the linguistic landscape . In: International Journal of Multilingualism. 3 (1). pp. 52-66.

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Reviews

Reviews in Academic Journals

(2009)
[Review:] Discourse and Politeness: Ambivalent Face in Japanese, by Naomi Geyer . In: Coulmas, Florian (Ed.) International Journal of the Sociology of Language 199. Multilingualism and Language Politics: New Challenges. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 138-141.

(2007)
[Review:] Natsuko Tsujimura: An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics. Malden et al.: Blackwell . In: LINGUIST List, April 5th 2007.

Other Reviews

(2007)
[Review:] Fumio Inoue: Sono keigo de wa haji o kaku! [This use of honorifics will disgrace yourself] Tokyo: PHP

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. p. 6.

(2007)
[Review:] Toshiaki Kawahara; Tadayuki Yamamoto (Eds.): Gaikokujin to issho ni ikiru shakai ga yatte kita [Living together with foreigners in a new society]. Tokyo: Kurosio

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. p.6.

(2007)
[Review:] Shigeru Kajiwara: Rōkaiwa [Old Age Conversation]. Tokyo: Tōyō Keizai Shimpōsha; Noriko Shibata: Shippairei kara manabu kaigoshoku no tame no komyunikēshon jutsu [Communication techniques for care professionals: Learning from bad examples]. Tokyo: Chūō Hōki

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. pp. 8-9.

(2006)
[Review:] Kōtarō Akizuki: Arienai nihongo [Impossible Japanese]. Tokio: Chikuma Shobō

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. pp. 7-8.

Working Papers

(2006)
Care, control, and communication: Linguistic interaction between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly.

Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. 24 p.

Newspaper Articles

(2009)
Even Japanese don't understand doctor-speak

. In: The Japan Times. January 28. p.12.

(2008)
So is it respect for 'the aged,' 'the elderly' or 'the seniors'?

. In: The Japan Times. September 2.

(2008)
KY-style Japanese: Express yourself alphabetically

. In: The Japan Times. April 22. p. 15.

(2006)
Odd use of foreign loan words a sign of the times . In: The Japan Times. 21 March.

(2004)
Japan's changing linguistic landscape . In: The Japan Times. 23 December.

(2003)
Multilingualism coming to a sign near you . In: The Japan Times. 4 September.

Other Publications

Articles

(2008)
No room at the inn: “Care refugees” in Japan

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. p. 2.

(2006)
New words for the old

. In: DIJ Newsletter. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien / Stiftung D.G.I.A.. pp. 1-2.

Presentations

October 1st 2009 - October 2nd 2009
Me Nurse You Resident: Institutional Role Play in a Japanese Caring Facility. Communication in Institutional Elderly Care: Cross-cultural Perspectives DIJ Tokyo

June 2nd 2009 - June 4th 2009
Communication in Japanese Elderly Care. Imploding Populations – Global and Local Challenges of Demographic Change DIJ Tokyo

April 25th 2009
Compliance gaining in institutional elderly care: Language, tempo and power relations. 「医療・介護の現場におけるコミュニケーション―『福祉言語学』の視点に立って―」(Communication in Japanese Healthcare Contexts: From the Perspective of Welfare Linguistics) DIJ Tokyo

March 29th 2009
「施設介護におけるコミュニケーション：ことばとテンポと力関係」. 第23回社会言語科学会研究大会. 東京外国語大学府中キャンパス

September 7th 2008
Communication in institutional elderly care in Japan. Seoul International Conference on Communication in Health Care. Seoul, Korea

April 5th 2008
Communication in institutional elderly care in Japan. 17th Sociolinguistic Symposium. Amsterdam, Netherlands

March 7th 2008
Care Communication: Language in Institutional Elderly Care. Socio-political and Business Aspects of Care in an Era of Demographic Change DIJ Tokyo

January 20th 2008
A sign is just a sign: Some reflections on doing linguistic landscape research. Tel Aviv Linguistic Landscape Workshop. Tel Aviv, Israel

September 16th 2007
「東京の言語景観」. 第20回社会言語科学会研究大会. 関西学院大学西宮上ケ原キャンパス

July 2nd 2007
Politeness in institutional elderly care in Japan: A comparative perspective. Third International Symposium on Politeness. Leeds, England

March 15th 2007
Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape. Language and Script Life in Japan DIJ Tokyo

September 23rd 2006
Care, control, communication: Linguistic interaction between staff and residents in a Japanese nursing home for the elderly. GlobE 2006 Conference. Warsaw, Poland

September 17th 2006
The languages of Tokyo: Mapping linguistic diversity through linguistic landscape research. European Science Foundation Workshop “Mapping linguistic diversity in multicultural contexts”. Siena, Italy

March 11th 2006
「東京の言語景観から見た日本の多言語化」. 多言語化現象研究会. 国立民族学博物館、大阪府吹田市

November 6th 2005
Impacts of Japan’s aging society on the semiotic organization of public spaces. AJJ 8th Annual Meeting. Sophia University, Tokyo

December 11th 2004
The administrative background to Tokyo's linguistic landscape (J). Linguistic landscaping in changing language regimes – the case of Japan DIJ Tokyo

November 20th 2004
「東京の言語サービス」. 日本言語政策学会第5回大会. 國學院大学渋谷キャンパス

April 2nd 2004
The languages of Tokyo: Some observations from the linguistic street image. 15th Sociolinguistic Symposium. Newcastle, England

March 31st 2004
Multilingualism in Tokyo: Reading the signs. International Conference “Changing Language Regimes in Globalizing Environments“, Europe and Japan. Duisburg-Essen University

June 7th 2003
「東京の多言語表示」. 日本言語政策学会第2回大会. 成城大学、東京都世田谷区

January 1st 1970
Me Nurse You Resident: Institutional Role Play in a Japanese Caring Facility. DIJ Tokyo

Peter Backhaus

( September 1st 2005 - March 31st 2010 )

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