Yukio Tsuda

Yukio Tsuda (津田幸雄) is a professor in the Department of International Communication at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. He is an oponent of the "hegemony of English" as well as a proponent of linguistic pluralism and the concept of "Ecology of Language". He believes that domination of English is tantamount to linguicide and that addressing the problem of linguistic hegemony is crucial to the development of "human and cultural security" (see the external link below).

Yukio Tsuda academic interests include language policy, cross-cultural psychoanalysis, and international and intercultural communication. Among his publications are Language Inequality and Distortion (1986); Eigo Shihai-no Kouzou (The Structure of the Dominance of English, 1990); Shinryaku suru Eigo, Hangeki-suru Nirhongo (The Invading English; The Counter-attacking Japanese, 1996). He received his master's degree in English as a Foreign Language and his doctorate in speech communication from Southern Illinois University.

External links

• http://www.toda.org/conferences/hugg_hon/hugg_hon_papers/y_tsuda.html (The Hegemony of English and Strategies for Linguistic Pluralism: Proposing the Ecology of Language Paradigm)
• http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/project/apec/outcomes/paper96/10/tsuda-en.html (A Critique of English as a Common Language for APEC: Three Perspectives)