TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathew,Leya
TI  - English linguistic imperialism from below: moral aspiration and social mobility 
T2  - Critical language and literacy studies
SN  - 9781788929134
AV  - PE3502.I6 MAT M38 2022
U1  - 306.442/21054 23/eng/20220314
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Bristol, Jackson
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - English language
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Imperialism
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -