The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language by Seargeant, Philip

The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847692016)

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The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language by Seargeant, Philip

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

$34.95
The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language by Seargeant, Philip

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

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Philip Seargeant
ISBN-10: 184769201X
ISBN-13: 9781847692016
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 255
By Philip Seargeant
By Philip Seargeant
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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).

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