'James Marshall Unger', (born May 28,
1947 in
Cleveland,
Ohio), is a professor of
Japanese at
Ohio State University who specializes in
historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia.
Works
★ ''Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1977; 2nd ed. 1993)
★ With F. C. Lorish, M. Noda, Y. Wada ''A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges'' (Washington, D.C.: National Foreign Language Center, 1993)
★ ''The Fifth Generation Fallacy'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
★ ''Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
★ ''Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning'' (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)