In Japan, neoliberal discourses rationalize English language proficiency as a pathway to meritocratic reward and success in the global knowledge economy. With this ideology in mind, this review engages the market orientation of English domestically and the causative implications of class-distinguished capital. Specifically, Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction is employed to foster comprehension of Japanese foreign language policies in which English substantiates itself as a valuable source of cultural investment. Notwithstanding the supposedly meritocratic intention of the Japanese state, this study concludes that credentialism, hierarchization, and marketization function in concert with a survival of the fittest corollary that, per globalized ideological-discursive assumptions, constrains agency through the justification of ELL as a vocational and civic moral worth. This conflation of internationalization and Englishization is better understood as an instrument of dominance, with the agency to participate in ELL interlocking with an incontrovertible doxa that rationalizes the economic, social, and political hierarchy.

在日本，新自由主义的话语使英语水平得到合理化，从而成为在全球知识经济中获得精英奖励和成功的途径。考虑到这种意识形态，本文将探讨英语在国内的市场定位以及阶级区分资本的因果关系。特别是，布迪厄的社会再生产理论被用来促进对日本外语政策的理解，在这些政策中，英语将自己作为文化投资的宝贵来源加以证实。尽管日本国原本打算实行精英制，但这项研究得出的结论是，凭证主义，等级制度和市场化功能与优胜劣汰相辅相成由此推论，按照全球化的意识形态-话语假设，通过将ELL视为职业和公民道德价值的理由来约束代理。最好将这种国际化和英语化的结合理解为一种统治手段，让该机构参与ELL与无可争议的doxa互锁，从而使经济，社会和政治等级制度合理化。