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The Idea of English in Japan

Philip Seargeant

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  • 208 sidor
  • 2009
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 languages 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.
  • Författare: Philip Seargeant
  • Illustratör: illustrations
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781847692016
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-08-04
  • Förlag: Multilingual Matters