The (re)construction of ideologies of English-speaking elites at a global corporation in Japan
The (re)construction of ideologies of English-speaking elites at a global corporation in Japan
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日本一家跨国公司英语精英意识形态的（重新）构建
DOI：
10.1080/13488678.2019.1680913
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Saito Junko
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作者：
Haruko M. & Nakamura;Momoko;嶋津百代;Saito Junko
根据索引性和实践社区的概念，本文探讨了日本员工在日本一家全球公司的文化内商务会议中使用英语的方式。之前关于日本人对英语意识形态的研究主要是分析访谈和书面文本数据，以了解日本母语人士对英语的态度和信念；然而，这些意识形态是如何在持续的互动中构建的，还没有得到充分的研究。因此，本研究通过对员工在自然发生的商务会议中使用英语的话语分析，考察了英语使用者意识形态的话语再现，并展示了员工对权威符号学中心的取向如何在其实践社区的索引领域中对特定意义的激活起着至关重要的作用。
Drawing on the notions of indexicality and community of practice, this article explores ways in which Japanese employees use English in otherwise Japanese speech in intracultural business meetings at a global corporation in Japan. Previous research on Japanese ideologies about English has predominantly analyzed interview and written text data to understand Japanese native speakers’ attitudes and beliefs about the language; yet how these ideologies are constructed in ongoing interactions is underinvestigated. This study therefore examines the discursive reproduction of ideologies about English speakers through discourse analysis of employees’ use of English during naturally occurring business meetings, and demonstrates how the employees’ orientations to semiotic centers of authority play a vital role in the activation of specific meanings in an indexical field of their community of practice.