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    The politics of English : South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific (2013)
    Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company
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    ISBN: 9789027272133 , 9027272131
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 322 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies in world language problems 4 1572-1183
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Politics of English
    DDC: 306.4495
    Keywords: English language Political aspects ; Asia ; English language Variation ; Asia ; English language Usage ; Asia ; Language and culture Asia ; English language Foreign countries ; Asia ; English language Usage ; Language and culture ; English language ; English language Variation ; English language Political aspects ; English language ; Usage ; English language ; Variation ; Language and culture ; English language ; Political aspects ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; English language ; Foreign countries ; Asia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country's language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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    Politics of English : South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific (2013)
    Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789027272133
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (332 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in World Language Problems v.4
    DDC: 306.44095
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    HF 563
    Keywords: Englisch ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprachverbreitung ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: English is deeply embedded within recent neoliberal projects of social reformation in South Korea, becoming a central topic of contention in the controversial educational reforms of the Lee Myung-bak regime (2008-2012). It figured prominently in various changes to the Korean education system pursued by the Lee administration under the name of greater competitiveness, such as increasing English immersion instruction in public schools and opening greater number of special purpose high schools where English language skills are highlighted. Lee's policies on the one hand aimed to cater to middle-class parents' desire for better educational opportunities that drive the Korean education fever; but on the other hand, they also fueled that very desire by inserting English into a neoliberal social order and imbuing it with cultural significance. Here, the indexical nature of language - how "good English" comes to be interpreted as embodied evidence of not only one's educational attainment but also one's previous transnational trajectories, thus positioning the speaker as an experienced cosmopolitan well prepared for "global competition" - plays a central role, as it naturalizes and justifies the classed nature of neoliberal projects despite continued contestation and debate.
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