Communication: Modernisation and Postmodernisation of the Japanese System of Communication

None of us who lived through the 1960s and 1970s could avoid seeing the far-reaching changes in linguistics of the period. Structural linguistics was replaced by poststructural trends - either grammatical (such as generative linguistics) or non-grammatical (such as sociolinguistics). It was obvious that structural linguistics was modern, but what were the new varieties of post-structural linguistics? For want of a better term (and 'postmodern' was then still unavailable), I called them 'contemporary'.6