The idea of English in Japan [[electronic resource] ] : ideology and the evolution of a global language / / Philip Seargeant
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| Autore: |
Seargeant Philip
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| Titolo: |
The idea of English in Japan [[electronic resource] ] : ideology and the evolution of a global language / / Philip Seargeant
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| Pubblicazione: | Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 188 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 428.007/052 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Study and teaching - Japanese speakers |
| English philology - Study and teaching - Japan | |
| Second language acquisition | |
| English language - Japan | |
| English language - Globalization | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | English as a global language |
| English in Japan | |
| English | |
| Global English | |
| Global language | |
| Japan | |
| Language ideologies | |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| World Englishes | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Concept of English as a Global Language -- 3. Language Ideology and Global English -- 4. English in Japan: The Current Shape of the Debate -- 5. Globalization: ‘Enriching Japanese Culture Through Contact with Other Cultures’ -- 6. Authenticity: ‘More English than England Itself’ -- 7. Aspiration: ‘Enhancing Lifestyles and Living Out Dreams’ -- 8. The Unknown Language -- 9. Rival Ideologies in Applied Linguistics -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies – drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history – inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language. The book analyses the specific nature of the language’s symbolic meaning in Japan, and how this meaning is expressed and negotiated in society. It also discusses how the ideologies of English that exist in Japan might have implications for the more general concept of ‘English as a global language’. To this end it considers the question of what constitutes a ‘global’ language, and how, if at all, a balance can be struck between the universal and the historically-contingent when it comes to formulating a theory of English within the world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The idea of English in Japan |
| ISBN: | 9786612465932 |
| 1-84769-203-6 | |
| 1-282-46593-7 | |
| 1-84769-691-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791203703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Critical language and literacy studies ; ; 3.