English as a Multicultural Language in Asian Contexts: Issues and Ideas
English as a Multicultural Language in Asian Contexts: Issues and Ideas
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英语作为亚洲背景下的多元文化语言：问题和想法
DOI：
10.1080/13488678.2008.10801238
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
N. Hino
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作者：
N. Hino
本卷是我们许多参与世界英语研究的人所期待已久的- Honna Nobuyuki教授对他自己建立的学术学科“亚洲英语”的全面报道。自1990年出版的《亚洲英语》一书对社会语言学和英语教学等学术领域产生了重大影响以来，Honna教授一直在不断地建立这一新的领域，现在被称为亚洲英语。1998年，他创立了日本亚洲英语协会（JAFAE），并担任会长，几乎与此同时，他作为总编辑创办了国际期刊《亚洲英语》。在Honna教授的努力下，亚洲英语研究现在已经成为社会语言学和教育学研究的一个独立领域。我们希望他接下来能对亚洲英语研究作一个系统的描述或一个典型的描述。我很高兴地告诉大家，我们的梦想终于实现了——《英语作为亚洲语境中的多元文化语言》一书由提出这一概念的学者对亚洲英语进行了全面的分析。霍娜教授的最新研究成果显示了亚洲英语研究的广度和深度，也显示了亚洲英语研究的巨大发展潜力。如果读者熟悉以前关于世界英语的文献，他们也会意识到，Honna教授的亚洲英语理论框架不应该仅仅被视为“Kachruvian”世界英语研究的一个分支（例如Kachru， 1982, 1986, 1997），而是一个具有自己领域和观点的原创学科。最值得注意的是，作为扩展圈成员的日本观点在作者的范式构建中很明显，这将本卷与主要基于外圈观点（如印度英语使用者的观点）的克鲁夫方法区分开来。
The present volume is what many of us involved in the studies in World Englishes have long been waiting for — Professor Nobuyuki Honna’s holistic coverage of “Asian Englishes,” an academic discipline established by himself. Since he edited the book Ajia no Eigo (Englishes in Asia) in 1990, which had great impact on academic fields such as sociolinguistics and English language teaching, Professor Honna has been constantly building on this new area which has now come to be known as Asian Englishes. In 1998, he founded the Japanese Association for Asian Englishes (JAFAE) as its President, and almost at the same time launched the international journal Asian Englishes as its editor-in-chief. With all these efforts by Professor Honna, the study of Asian Englishes has now been constructed as an independent field of sociolinguistic and pedagogical inquiry. What we hoped to have next from him was a systematic description or a paradigmatic picture of Asian Englishes studies. I am glad to tell you that our dream has just come true — English as a Multicultural Language in Asian Contexts provides a holistic analysis of Asian Englishes by the very scholar who is responsible for this concept. This latest work by Professor Honna shows both width and depth of Asian Englishes studies, and also suggests tremendous potential for its further development. The readers will be also aware, if they are familiar with previous literature on World Englishes, that Professor Honna’s theoretical framework of Asian Englishes should not be viewed merely as a subfield of “Kachruvian” World Englishes studies (e.g. Kachru, 1982, 1986, 1997) but as an original discipline with its own domains and perspectives. Most notably, Japanese viewpoints as a member of the Expanding Circle are evident in the author’s paradigm construction, which distinguishes the present volume from the Kachruvian approach that is predominantly based on Outer Circle perspectives such as those of Indian users of English.