1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Comparative Study of Linguistic and Cultural Policies in Britain and America
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09610472
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
HAYASHI Fumiyo The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (20139497)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAITO Yoshifumi The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 助教授 (80162246)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
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| Keywords | linguistic policy / cultural policy / cultural studies / English imperialism |
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| Research Abstract |
English Culture : Its Dynamics and Policies' (SAITO Yoshifumi)
English culture has spread itself basically through the colonization of Britain and the political and economical dominance of the United States after the World War II. However, when we take a closer look at the culture, its formation and development vary according to the extent to which English is used. Furthermore, the English culture of each country is ever-changing. Such being the case, its future, probably moving toward verification, is completely unpredictable and Japanese people should be keenly alert to its movements.
Language, Culture and History : On the Formation of Narrative' (HAYASHI Fumiyo)
One of the greatest contributions of post-structuralist criticism is, as we can see in the works by Said and Spivak, the unveiling of the fictionality, narrativity, or ideologies behind descriptions of language, culture and history, which have been assumed to be objective facts. From the point of view of this new approach, we will and the idea of the 'world', to which we are supposed to be able to gain access through English, rather ambiguous and unsteady. We should take a renewed look at the idea of stipulating English as our second common language from this new perspective.
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