English linguistic imperialism from below : moral aspiration and social mobility / Leya Mathew.
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TextSeries: Critical language and literacy studies ; 28Publisher: Bristol ; Jackson : Multilingual Matters, [2022]Description: xvi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781788929134
- 9781788929141
- 306.442/21054 23/eng/20220314
- PE3502.I6 MAT M38 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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