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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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Kawai, Yuko – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Nationalism, Second Language Learning, Official Languages