研究者情報 | 神奈川大学

ミナモト　クニヒコ Minamoto Kunihiko 源　邦彦所属神奈川大学外国語学部英語英文学科職種助教
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2000/08
形態種別	学術雑誌
査読	査読あり
標題	Cold War Politics and English in Southeast Asian Contexts: Sociopolitical Steps to the Formation of RELC
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	Asian Englishes
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	Taylor & Francis
巻・号・頁	3(1),pp.39-60
著者・共著者	MINAMOTO Kunihiko
概要	On July 1, 1968, a striking move to regionally address English language teaching problems by a Southeast Asian gathering turned into the inception of the Regional English Language Centre (RELC). The foundation of RELC was the first attempt to shore up the regionwide spread of English by a group of nonnative states in the form of an intergovernmental institute. It was a time in which Southeast Asia underwent drastic social change and stood at political and economic crossroads. The international institute was generally viewed as educational, but in fact, a language planning theory applied to an analysis of RELC's formative phases favors an interpretation that the Centre was a linguistic means to attain politico-economic ends. This article explores a social rationale for the emergence of an idea to found a regional English language center in view of Cold War alignment, regionalism, and sociolinguistic particularity in the strategic geopolitical collectivity of Southeast Asia.
DOI	10.1080/13488678.2000.10801043
ISSN	2331-2548