2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Bilingual Education Project in Jamaica: The Decision Making Process
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20K21995
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
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| Research Institution | Kanagawa University (2023)
Tamagawa University (2021-2022)
Toyo University (2020) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-09-11 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 人種階層化された資本主義世界システム / 資本主義的搾取、抑圧と科学 / 言語学、社会言語学と人種主義 / 言語学、社会言語学の社会学的再考 / 言語学、社会言語学の再構築 / 言語計画論の再構築 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The research, started in 2022, had to change its theme several times, but finally, it was conducted on: Hubert Devonish's language planning and Ministry of Education's language planning.
Regarding Devonish's language planning, I conducted three interviews from February 2022 to February 2023. I made a paper presentation on it in June 2023, but finding some flaws or inadequacies in the presentation, I conducted additional two interviews with him. I am currently working on a paper based on review comments from five linguists.
The Ministry of Education issued in 2022 a policy proposal on the status of English and Jamaican in education and beyond. For the purpose of investigating the policy-making process, I conducted anonymous interviews with three Ministry bureaucrats involved in the process. Because they were anonymous interviews, I obtained important data including unofficial or unpublished one.
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| Free Research Field |
言語社会学、言語計画論、ブラックスタディーズ
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は、言語学の社会構築性に関する再検討を促し、言語学者がこれまで主張してきた記述主義の意味を再考する契機を提供することになる。言語学者が執り行う言語学的行為のイデオロギー性、政治性、恣意性を振り返ることで、言語学者自身が今後どのように社会貢献できるのかを再考する機会となってほしい。また、一般社会においても同様の再考を促したい。言語学者の科学的ディスコースへと昇華された一般社会の認識は、特定の集団のことばを差別的なカテゴリーへと分類することを合理化し、その結果、当該集団が自身の言語使用を根拠にいかに集団的な人権侵害や人種差別に苦しめられているかを考える機会を提供したい。
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