ISBN:
9781788929141
,
9781788929134
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 191 Seiten
Series Statement:
Critical language and literacy studies 28
Series Statement:
Critical language and literacy studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mathew, Leya English linguistic imperialism from below
DDC:
306.442/21054
Keywords:
English language Political aspects
;
English language Social aspects
;
English language Study and teaching
;
English language Study and teaching
;
Foreign speakers
;
Imperialism
;
Indien
;
Englisch
;
Englischunterricht
;
Soziale Mobilität
;
Kerala
;
Unterprivilegierter
;
Bildungsverhalten
;
Fremdsprachenlernen
;
Englisch
Abstract:
Moral aspiration -- Development and its afterlives -- Temporal migrations -- Social lives of rote -- Scripted lives of communication -- Obsessive hope -- Mandated resistance -- Rote to interaction -- Conclusion: Linguistic imperialism from below.
Abstract:
"The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility fuelled intense non-elite desire for English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English schooling"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
