Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
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Volume: 7 Number: 1 Page: 37–55
doi:10.2167/laic174.0
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Japanese Nationalism and the global Spread of English: An Analysis of Japanese Governmental and Public Discourses on English
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Yuko Kawai
Department of English, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan
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Globalisation has accelerated the spread of English internationally, challenged nationalisms and put nation states in a dilemma in which they have to promote English, a foreign language, in addition to their national languages. Focusing on the proposal in January 2000 to establish English as an official language of Japan, this study attempts to understand and critique how English is represented in relation to Japanese nationalism in government and popular discourses and thereby explores implications for teaching English as a foreign language and intercultural communication.
Keywords: Japan, language planning, nationalism, English as an official language
© 2007 Y. Kawai
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