Date: 19-Aug-2009 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: The Idea of English in Japan: Seargeant E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Idea of English in Japan
Subtitle: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language
Series Title: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Published: 2009
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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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.