Yukio Tsuda

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Yukio Tsuda (津田幸男, Yukio Tsuda^? born 1950 in Kanagawa Prefecture^[1]) is Professor in the Doctoral Program in Modern Cultures and Public Policies of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He is an opponent of the hegemony of English as well as a proponent of linguistic pluralism and the concept of "Ecology of Language." He believes that the 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 links below).

In an article in The San Matean, a San Mateo Cummunity College newpaper, dated March 19, 2007, Professor Tsuda was quoted to say, "It is more important to be students learning other languages, than being a teacher only teaching one."

Professor Tsuda's academic interests include language policy, cross-cultural psychoanalysis, and international and intercultural communication. Among his publications are Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach (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); Eigo Shihai-to Kotoba-no Byoudou [The Hegemony of English and Linguistic Equality] (2006). He received his M.A. in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and his Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University. Homepage: http://www.prof-tsuday.com