Idea of English in Japan - Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language

Informationen zum Autor Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University. He is author of The Idea of English in Japan (Multilingual Matters, 2009) and Exploring World Englishes (Routledge), and editor of English in Japan in the Era of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and English in the World: History, Diversity, Change (Routledge, 2012, with Joan Swann). Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Seargeant
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2009
• EAN: 9781847692023
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-202-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics